Decided to replay CotM recently and got to the end without any grinding whatsoever. Well, turns out that I forgot about the final form of Drac and how summons are practically necessary to hit it. I just couldn’t be bothered to grind at the endgame for cards after having a mostly enjoyable replay without 2/3 of them.

This is the mod that I should have installed before even thinking about playing again. Within 10 minutes of starting a new game, I already had found like 3 cards and had some basic DSS abilities ready to use. As opposed to not receiving any cards due to poor drop rate until about an hour into my other replay, this mod already seems to fix some fundamental flaws of the base game. I also really appreciated that the card locations in this mod were a mix of basic, accessible locations, as well as replacing some of the copious, secret, MP+ hidden items with cards instead. This mod is such an improvement I had to stop myself from replaying the whole game again immediately!