not a serious entry - basically practice with dealing out cards in gamemaker. im hoping that working on this sparks better ideas for the jam from me :p

This is really cool. I'd have no idea how to do something like that in GM.

It required me to finally download studio so I'd have access to lists T_T

Yeah. It can be a bit pricey, especially at full cost (I managed to snag it o sale a while back). But those lists are pretty darn powerful.