Definitely felt the theme was kinda shit :P It felt like the combo system kept not awarding me energy that it said it should, and the artifacts up top did not work consistently/sometimes at all. Like it’s impossible to play a straight without negative energy because the cards will always cost more than the 4 energy that combo gives you? Is that why it felt like it didn’t do anything?
I really liked a lot of the ideas here though, and there’s a lot of well-made art and clever ideas for the different cards. Wish the base mechanics were tinkered out a bit more, but that’s a jam for you. Nice work overall :)