Well dang that's really incredible, please know I sincerely super appreciate you all taking a huge interesting in these little fellas eh! These guys are most definitely still early in development, so I'll definitely take into account your point of view. Especially since it seems you all really do have a grasp of how the bearcat buddies will function in a game.
Yeah you're right about "into your hand". I want these folks to feel official so I'll give that a tweak.
Yeah the press die was intended to just be the same as the mob (or spring uprising). Though a faceless side would be fun...
The matching clearing for counterfeit was mainly in place to be a limiter, but you're right in that multiple cards don't even HAVE something to match. The idea was you spend a normal card from your hand to copy the action of a revealed propaganda card. The new limiter may very well be Alex p's suggestion... Counterfeiting shrimply gives your the top - weaker action, no matching needed. But yeah you should be able to counterfeit multiple times, hence why I do need a limiter of some sort :P Counterfeit can assist you with the starting cards yup.
Also the top suit of the propaganda cards are just there so the birds can be spent for cats, put in the retinue, revealed etc. That way factions don't suffer for hanging onto the cards if they can. With the "spend a matching card to counterfeit" wording this gets so confusing, but hopefully with your suggestion here it'll be more clear.
That's soooo much for the encouragement! Seriously!!! I do have a design sketches for the card backs but had no time... Maybe soon :)