This is pretty great! I played 5-6 rounds,got some items, but ultimately died. I failed to understand how the card keeping works in the beginning, but I eventually figured it out. The tutorial probably mentioned it, I likely just skipped past that part on accident. I'm also pretty sure I skipped over how to see recipe effects, but I eventually figured that out as well. Perhaps if the hover time for the tooltip was quicker I would have seen them sooner.
All in all, this was good! I died a number of times due to lack of intelligence, but I eventually got it.