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To all 3 points: Fair enough!
Yeah, Caravan is the card game from New Vegas, it probably would not be too difficult to replicate its AI for playing against NPCs.
Its… kind of like comepetetive, 2 player Solitaire, if that makes any sense.
Played with standard cards, not like TCG cards, you try to build 3 different ‘caravans’ of between 21 and 26 total… so, sorta like blackjack/21 in that aspect… but, face cards can be played on either your caravans or your opponents, and they do special things.
The other element of Caravan is that you can play with custom decks, but you have to have a card from a different art style of deck to be able to have duplicates.
So… its… played with normal cards, but each player is playing their own deck.
In New Vegas, this integrates with the rest of the game, as it incentivizes exploration.
If you have a decent deck and know how to play Caravan, its basically an infinite money cheat, you can clean out many NPC Caravan players.
For a card game only version… maybe you could make it so that you can just win certain ‘prize pool’ cards, sort of like how Pokemon works.
Maybe instead of anteing up caps, you could mix in anteing up some of your own cards, and the NPC has to match in kind.