I have finally satisfied all the actor's unhinged needs and won (after breaking way too many exquisite Italian items.) Thank you for the hint (as well as the one below about farnxl uvatrf)!
This is not a bug, it is merely a consequence of the text of the pi and half cards.
The resetting to 3 or 0 is an on-play effect, while increasing is an on-stand effect. If you lock the card, then the on-play effect doesn't activate, so the card stops resetting.
Synthesizers are definitely weird. I made one and connected it to an organics lab (which didn't work.) Then I connected it to an organics-requiring planet. The synthesizer showed it was producing organics, but it was supplying them to the lab instead of the planet.
it's true that the 0.5 and pi cards increase their value on stand but the ace's effect is "while in play, value is 11 unless bust limit exceeded, then value changes to 1" so the value not resetting to 11 seems like a bug to me
I said "move to owner's discard pile" as a way to circumvent locked cards without complicated phrasing, because the text is long enough already. This would also use the interaction where locked cards that are moved somewhere other than the play pile remain locked.
If the ribbons were worth 2 instead of 3, then to create a blackjack with 3 ribbons each one could gain 5 value and then reset later. (In addition to being the value of the cards, 5 is also the value of the Akatan / Aotan combo.) I was actually thinking the different types of ribbons could have different functions. Poetry Ribbon could be another all-suits-at-once card, while Blue Ribbon could be spades or nothings and have an additional blackjack effect.
On Play: Choose to add a Poetry Ribbon or a Blue Ribbon to your draw, play, and discard piles, then burn this card.
Ribbon (7):
On Play: If you have two ribbons of the same type already in play, move all other cards in play to owner's discard pile. You and opponent are each forced to stand, and your bust limit is set to 21.
Suggestion: Swap the effects of V the Hierophant and III the Empress. I don't know anything about tarot cards so this might not reflect the tarot cards, but it would make the effects of III the Empress and IV the Emperor mirror each other.
