If I had to propose a solution for making Cards more appealing, I’d say make failures pay out “Planks of Wood” like the Terror Bird failure describes. What do “Planks of Wood” do? Completely irrelevant; half the fan base will go wild trying to collect a bunch of Planks of Wood just because it exists. Maybe you can cash them in en masse for something in the 2.50-12.50 range. Even if the actual “value” of a failure is pennies or “worthless junk”, it’s so much more entertaining than nothing. Heck, even a “Number of Crates you f__ed up” tracker quality would add some Spice to it.
Hmm, don’ t think I’ll be aiming for that “777”. I made it to 33 but now I’m nearly out of Hastily Scrawled Notes and Hard-Earned Lessons so it’d be a lot less satisfying going forward (…and impossible during a single week, I think? Certainly close to impossible). Also saving 7 Crates as a memento, of course, as mentioned upstream; hopefully they don’t turn back into pumpkins and mice after the event ends.