Awesome glad to hear you had a better time of it!
Definitely working on balancing the game. It's going to take a lot of iterations. I errored on the side of making the game easier and I've been slowing racheting up the difficulty after each round of playtests.
As for the art, I appreciate the feedback but I like how it is and spent a lot of time working with an artist to make it. I understand it's a jarring juxtaposition from the card art. But that is intentional.