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That’s a reasonable concern! You can just place the cards at the bottom of your deck rather than using a discard pile.
(While you could certainly shuffle the deck between every draw, it’s a variant rule for a reason - I find it changes the feel of the game a slight but significant amount. It’s great if that extra layer of uncertainty is what you want to opt in for, but placing the cards at the bottom of the deck is a better way to get the standard experience if that’s what you want!)
They lead to different game experiences - the tarot gameplay is a little more introspective and full of weighty questions, and the playing card experience is a little more about figuring how far you can trust people - so the preferred way is whichever one of those sounds more fun! Personally I would play the tarot card version.
I departed pretty far from the core CC rules for my game for this jam - the d4 result table only shows up on one out of the twelve possible actions, and the way the rolls are defined are tweaked. I was worrying for a while whether I should even call it a Caltrop Core game, but Lex has explicitly stated elsewhere that if we feel it's a CC game because of its original inspiration, then we can call it a CC game.
https://whyhieratic.itch.io/pearl-provenance
(Edited to add: My previous game, Her Odyssey, followed the core CC rules fairly faithfully but entwined them with another system involving card draws. https://whyhieratic.itch.io/her-odyssey )