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Thank you, that makes a lot of sense! I'm very exicted to learn and talk about other people's design choices :)

Yes I do, but that may be just because it delayed in my second playthrough of the new version (and I wouldn't count the first since I was still figuring out the new mechanics and not really expecting to win anyway). This gave me a feeling of "I can play at least 11 rounds and then probably more" rather than "I can play 11 rounds and then I'm probably f****d" which I would expect from this type of game.

This takes some urgency and panic out of the 11th round but does add tactics, otherwise I could just mindlessly flip every card (doesn't matter if I die this way or the other). Without some kind of recovery mechanic I probably would also restart the game after the first 3 or 4 rounds if I feel like I'm not building a good deck. (There are a lot of cards which need to work in synergy to make sense, which I like a lot, but it also leads to situations when it's pretty early pretty clear that I'm not gonna win this one because I couldn't lay out a good basis for one approach or the other yet).