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[Empiricist]

Seriously? Another one?
Yeah uh, the plan was to run this on another forum, but... let's just say there were some technical problems and most of the players already had Bay12 accounts. So...

Spoiler: Illustrated OP (Warning: The image is massive) (click to show/hide)

As before, credits to AoshimaMichio for the roll system, and KosherKitten for the stat system.
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[Empiricist]

Main Characters

Spoiler: Immanuel Gotlieb (Cronos) (click to show/hide)

Current Regalia
Sachen: An assortment of masterfully enchantment equipment in the form of a rather durable suit of authentically made and enchanted gothic full plate armor, a pair of spell storing steel gauntlets, a belt of vaguely enhanced strength, iron sabatons of inexplicably fire based flight, and the magical reagents necessary to create his signature semi magical railguns. The sheer amount of magical items the man carries with him at all times should be particularly noticeable to anyone who has enhanced senses or detection equipment. Immanuel can make it magically appear on his person by simply willing it to come forth.
 
Stats
Ranged: 9 - Immanuel wears a pair of spell storing gauntlets that both contain a total of 8 plasma bolt firing wands, thus allowing Immanuel to fire an almost excessive amount of eerily accurate and fast moving bolts at his enemies with the power of his mind...although they are neither self guiding or particularly powerful individually. But of course when he needs the additional fire power he could simply rely on the excessively high powered shoulder mounted railgun that he can construct with the use of his hyper. Although rather unfortunately it is a cumbersome and hard to aim weapon that takes a while to reload. His requiem allows him to temporarily enchant other people and their equipment from a distance.
Close Quarters: 0 - While Immanuel's belt of Vaguely Enhanced Strength does in fact provides him with the strength of five men, he had neglected to actually specify which five men when he created them. This ended up screwing him over when he ended up creating a belt that provided him with the strength of five heroes of myth and legend, who of course, by being virtue of existing in myth and legend, are living men no longer.
Mobility: 5 - Immanuel can fly thanks to his Iron Sabatons of inexplicably fire based flight after he accidentally set fire to one of the rather expensive and rather hard to replace ingredients required to create a pair of Winged Boots of flight when creating it. This works out about as well as you can expect it to when it comes to straight line speed and rapid increases in altitude. Although it leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to actually maneuvering the damn thing.
Defense: 5 - Immanuel's heavily enchanted set of gothic full plate armor allows him to take hits that would completely and utterly destroy a much lesser man, although in the end of the day he is in fact just a ridiculous man in a rather heavy set of armor when it comes to durability. He can also use his magic to form a small directional force field to try and mitigate the damage he takes a bit, but the act of creating one usually takes longer than the time it takes for the enemy's attack to hit him.
Excel Hyper: 0 - None, Immanuel has never seen the point of learning one big and easily detected trick to win when he can do so with several dozen tiny tricks that batter down your efforts.
 
Requiem
Artificer's Infusion: Immanuel is able to infuse often weak magical effects into regular pieces of equipment during combat, although those effects usually have a limitation in the form of it having a limited amount of uses or only being usable for a short period of time. Although he is able to bypass these limitations to create a permanent magical item if he has the time and necessary materials for it.
 
Hypers
Sofortige elektromagnetische schienenkanone-Erstellung [4]: An ingenious combination of arcane spells allows Immanuel to almost instantaneously create a shoulder mounted and semi magical railgun for him to fire at his enemies. While this particular Hyper can be used whenever Immanuel's worldview has an unused 4, it simply fails to attach the railgun onto Immanuel's shoulder if he already has one on each shoulder.
Arcane Infusion: Mobilität+ [4]: Immanuel swiftly targets himself with a tried and tested series of mobility and speed enhancing spells as part of a presumably desperate attempt to get to a particular location in the nick of time. Causing a pair of wing shaped flames to shoot out of the back of his shoulders. But of course the spell's duration always runs out just a few seconds after Immanuel managed to reach his destination.
Arcane Infusion: Leistungsverstärker [5]: Immanuel focuses almost entirely on his magical offenses for a few short moment to drastically increase the power of his ranged attacks for a single turn.
Arcane Infusion: Überwältigen [6]: Immanuel targets the weapons of two different allies with some randomly chosen magic in an attempt to infuse it with a mixture of hopefully not at all volatile magic that will definitely deal more damage to someone in the general area of the weapon.

Spoiler: Tor Svensen (Dragon Rage) (click to show/hide)

Current Regalia
Portable Tabletop: This forearm-mounted device comes with a flat surface covered in card slots, a mechanical deck shuffler/sorter, a dice rolling mechanism, and a life counter. The life counter will take hits for Tor, but if it’s reduced to 0 by attacks the Portable Tabletop will shut down for ten minutes, making it impossible for him to play cards.
 
Stats
Ranged: 7 - Tor’s ranged capabilities are split roughly evenly between maneuver cards and monster cards. His monster cards do most of the fighting for him, and maneuver cards provide support and supplemental offense by enhancing his monsters and allies, or occasionally through directly attacking enemies.
Close Quarters: 4 - Tor is really big and strong for a human, and he knows how to throw a punch. Additionally, he can have his monster cards intercept and assault, and deploy trap cards. Trap cards lie in wait until an enemy trips their activation requirement, which is set when they're played. Then, the trap card punishes or counters whatever tripped it.
Mobility: 2 - Tor isn’t more mobile than a normal human on his own, but he can call upon monster cards to provide a mount or vehicle for faster movement, flight, underwater travel, etc.
Defense: 4 - Tor doesn't have any ways to mitigate damage if he actually takes hits, and has to rely on healing maneuver cards in that case. Fortunately, he has some pretty good ones. However, he can have his monsters body-block incoming fire, or shield him with their own defenive abilities.
Excel Hyper: 2 - Asteroid Field Ambush.
 
Requiem
<Unnamed>: Tor’s requiem is simple. When he plays trading cards, he can cause the card’s effects to manifest in the real world. He mostly uses this with his personal deck of Space Vikings, but any trading cards can be used. Due to the rules of the game, he must only play one monster card, one maneuver card, and one trap card each round.
 
Hypers
Until Folkvangr [3]: Tor plays one of his signature cards, the maneuver ‘Until Folkvangr’, to ascend two of his monsters to Freyja’s halls, replacing them with a more powerful Einherjar monster. Only monsters who have seen battle may be ascended in this way.
Shining Valkyrie Squad [4]: Tor summons one of his ace monsters, the ‘Shining Valkyrie Squad’, a team of elite shieldmaidens equipped with laser battleaxes, particle shields, railguns, and hoverbikes.
Assault Carrier Valhalla [5]: Tor summons one of his ace monsters, the ‘Assault Carrier Valhalla’, a space battlecruiser equipped with powerful railguns, thick armor, particle shields, and a hanger full of Huginn-class interceptors and Muninn-class bombers. The carrier can produce one fighter each round. The Assault Carrier Valhalla is a unique hero card, and Tor can only have one active at any given time.
Omega Solar Flare [6]: Tor uses one of his signature cards, the maneuver ‘Omega Solar Flare’, and has one of his monsters go out in a blaze of glory. The monster is sacrificed to produce a huge blast of solar plasma capable of dealing devastating damage to multiple enemies. Omega Solar Flare’s power scales with the power of the monster sacrificed.
Asteroid Field Ambush [R]: Tor always keeps his signature trap card, ‘Asteroid Field Ambush’, in reserve. Asteroid Field Ambush activates if Tor or an ally would be defeated or slain by an attack, surrounding the attacker with asteroids from which three vehicle-type monsters charge in. The monsters intercept the incoming attack as best they can, and if any survive they immediately counterattack. This card can be activated from Tor’s hand.

Spoiler: Sasha Estevez (Zetaark) (click to show/hide)

Current Regalia
Scarlet Lucereizen: Scarlet Heat is a heavily modified crimson colored motorcycle Sasha uses as her method of transportation and attack. The motorcycle can reach speeds racecars wish they could experience. Though not fully armored, it is specced to withstand increadibly high speed collisions and some degree of explosions, though maintenance tends to need to be done after the fight. Luceria and Zerreizen, meanwhile, are the twin pistols she wields in combat. Each one can individually fire out a volley of shots rapidly, and the two can be fused together to form a sniper rifle capable of high powered shots.
 
Stats
Ranged: 2 - Her gun, in either form, can deliver a barrage of smaller shots or larger and more powerful plasma shots. High speeds tend to limit the accuracy of her ranged shots, though she cheats using Spacial Rend to bypass aiming difficulties. As a result, her ranged attacks are all Hypers.
Close Quarters: 4 - While her physical strength is decent, her main method of close combat involves ramming into them with her bike.
Mobility: 10 - Her motorcycle moves at incredibly high speeds, making her an evasive target. She herself is quite dexterous, and even without the bike can be a hard target to hit.
Defense: 3 - Her bike is designed to withstand the abuse from the high speeds and plasma shots she fires, and offers some protection to Sasha during her more reckless stunts.
Excel Hyper: 0 - None.
 
Requiem
Spacial Rend: Sasha can warp space, allowing her to ride her bike in ways that defy physics and more frequently warp her shots directly to the enemy, among other things.
 
Hypers
Rapid Shot [3]: Switching her gun to its dual pistol form, Sasha fires off a barrage of smaller shots onto her enemies.
Plasma Shot [4]: In the gun's rifle form, Sasha fires a large and powerful, but slightly slower high-energy shot that creates an explosion on contact.
Explosive Shot [5]: Sasha fires a shot at the enemy that sticks onto them. On command, the shot explodes, dealing more damage depending on how long it lingered.
Accel Crash [6]: Sasha rams an enemy with her bike and fires a high-powered plasma shot, which she rams her enemy into at an extreme amount of speed. What's safety?

Spoiler: Faznie Kotvar (TCM) (click to show/hide)

Current Regalia
35mm Goddard C800 Camera: An off-putting, shoulder-mounted film camera, cutting edge for its era. Sometimes it talks or writes things on the wall in unidentifiable liquid, but that's part of its charm. The Goddard functions not only as a recording device but a projector as well, transmitting movie images into reality that take on a physical form. Its effects do not require line-of-sight.
 
Stats
Ranged: 7 - Faznie is most comfortable fighting at a distance, chipping away at enemy psyches before they can reach her.
Close Quarters: 4 - Faznie will not back down from a CQC encounter, changing her tactics from grand summons into quick flashes of the Goddard to unleash swinging cleavers, gruesome traps and writhing tentacles out of the ether in rapid succession. She also carries a folding knife, although its combat applications are limited to desperation attempts and coup de graces.
Mobility: 0 - Is it too late to regret taking Metallurgy of Swords over Track & Field?
Defense: 6 - Goddard will produce defensive structures around Faznie in order to protect her, oftentimes without her direct input. It selects all sorts of props for a given situation, like a warehouse's metal gate, or partial debris of a crashed airplane.
Excel Hyper: 2 - EARN YOUR 'X' RATING.
 
Requiem
The Void: Faznie's presence and perpetual creation of the macabre takes a toll on morale. Even her defensive maneuvers are unsettling to say the least, who wants to have to hack through a wall of rotting cattle or gooey bile? Enemy interaction with Faznie causes sustained psychological trauma that manifests as Panic, Madness, and Resignation, among other symptoms. Of course, this is dependent on the psychological resolve and capacity of each enemy, though even non-sentient beings (such as robots or animated objects) can be negatively effected.
 
Hypers
Unmarked Territory [3]: A sweeping 360-degree pan with the Goddard to change the immediate environment around Faznie. This landscape alteration is meant to conceal her allies and herself, while hindering enemy visibility and mobility. They might find themselves in a field of surprisingly resilient maize, or stumbling around a pitch-black basement.
Mind Crush [3]: A projection directly targeting the mind of an enemy, causing a grotesque intrusion and audiovisual hallucination. Causes direct psychological damage and disrupts focus.
They Come! [4]: A monstrous creation comes from beyond for Faznie to sic' on an enemy. These summons, manic sewer dwellers and giant frenzied insects, are not invulnerable but are impressively motivated to give their target a bad time. These apparitions dissipate after the enemy turn.
Folly of Chance [5]: Do you notice how stupid and clumsy everyone becomes once the antagonist is chasing them? Faznie applies this cliche to an enemy, throw a deus-ex-machina wrench in their plans. Their gun could suddenly jam, or they trip over an unforeseen root during a charge attack.
EARN YOUR 'X' RATING: The Goddard focuses entirely on one target until their reality and the projected reality are no different, effectively temporarily trapping them in a pocket dimension. See how the mighty veteran cybersamurai fares when he becomes a towel-clad housewife fleeing her suburban duplex from the "Golf Club Killer".

Supporting Characters

Spoiler: Marina von Siemens (IntSys) (click to show/hide)

Current Regalia
Cintamani Brooch: A brooch wrapped in gold foils with a lustrous, green jewel put in it. It serves to amplify Marina's wish-granting powers.
 
Stats
Ranged: 4 - Marina's able to cast starry fireballs as rudimentary projectiles, but they're considered mediocre. Their power could be further amplified through the aid of wishes.
Close Quarters: 4 - Marina's picked up a few melee tricks, due to having to wish for more boosts in melee increasingly often. Though, the power's still considered mediocre. Her melee strength could be further amplified through the aid of wishes.
Mobility: 4 - Marina's fairly lightweight, and her small build provides her with greater agility, but she would still be considered mediocre in mobility. Her mobility could be further amplified through the aid of wishes.
Defense: 5 - Marina's capable of wishing for immediate shields to mitigate incoming damage. Having used the ability the most often, she grew to be the most proficient at it, being a bit above average. Her defense could be further amplified through the aid of wishes.
Excel Hyper: 2 - Meteor Shower.
 
Requiem
Wishmaker: Marina can grant wishes. To be more precise, Marina can grant wishes for people (including herself). She may only grant wishes that only affects the recipient directly, such as an extra pair of wings. Though, of note, her wish-granting powers are still not to the point of always granting the real thing - that is, even if she were to grant you a jet engine strapped on your back, it may still only be able to enhance your mobility somewhat, rather than blasting you into the oblivion upon activation.

In general, her wishes may cover healing and buffs that last for the duration of the battle (or damage and debuff to the recipient, but who in the right mind would wish for that?). The more is requested, the less potent it gets.

The potency of her wishes depends on the description given by the recipient, the recipient's willingness to believe in her powers, as well as her own current capabilities, though it may be enhanced through the help of her Excel Hyper, Meteor Shower.
 
Hypers
Repelling Burst [3]: Quick and condensed close-ranged explosions from a flick of a finger. Its high knockback can be used to knock an opponent up high, or just simply be used as an effective disruption.
Astral Shield [4]: A flexible shield that can be summoned in a whim for either point defense or a more rounded-out one.
Shooting Star [5]: Marina summons a bright shooting star out of nowhere, crossing the skies in a snap. The star shines so brightly that it's still noticeable in broad daylight. Should her allies wish upon the star, she would be able to grant several wish simultaneously.
Best Wishes [6]: Marina passes on all of her current buffs to an ally, in addition to restoring health to them. It can only be used if she possess at least one buff.
Meteor Shower [R]: Marina summons a magnificent meteor shower that crashes down upon the enemy party and deals decent damage overtime. It would last around a minute, and it would greatly improve the potency of her wishes for the duration of the shower.

[ragnarok97071]

Oh hey a -thing- ptw and should I repost my cancer here? I assume it's already full but hey can't hurt.

[Glass]

Hmn... fuck it, I want in on this.

Feywilds Aethertide, Capitalism, ho + Knight Errant, Form Shift (maybe + Jackass). At least, that's my votes.

Spoiler: Winter is coming (click to show/hide)

Name's Jack Frost. Or Jack Spades, or Jack Smith, or any number of others things.
I'm Jack, is the point.
Jack is moderately tall, on the skinny side, and dresses mostly in black and white dress clothing, with blue and red flashes here and there. Skin's a pale blue, and his eyes look like they've got cataracts - they're "frosted over", if you ask him. Doesn't tend to be very flashy, but every move he makes is traced with a trail of snowflakes. Most of the time, all he carries with him is a set of playing cards.

Requiem:
Frozen Assets: Whenever I'm around, winter's come early. In general, ice magic, mainly in the form of generating things like swords, shields, umbrellas, ladders, etc. out of magic ice, is my specialty. The stuff doesn't melt quickly (takes a couple days unless there's fire magic involved), but it can be deliberately dissipated if it's no longer needed. Also, it's damned cold.

Regalia:
The Deck: A deck of cards, 54 of them, 13 of each suit 2 through ace plus a pair of jokesters. Clubs are earth, diamonds are water, spades are air, hearts are fire, each card giving a more powerful spell for higher values, though the used card disappears from the deck until as many hours as the value of the card have passed (face cards are all 11). The jokers... those come later. This said, they're drawn off the top, so it may take a while to grab the desired card... most of the time.

Stats:
Ranged: 3. High-speed ice spikes, swirly snowstorms, etc. Jack's decent at using his ice magic at range, but it's not his specialty. However, they're certainly useful for keeping particularly dangerous enemies away from places they shouldn't be going, and crowd control. Jack won't be killing any opponents at range, but he'll be making sure that they don't go where he doesn't want them to.
Close Quarters: 6. You know how glass can be sharpened better than almost any other material? Jack's ice has a lot in common with glass. Jack is an expert at using the icy swords, scythes, and other bladed weapons to great affect against opponents. Furthermore, Jack can also use his ice magic in close range to freeze his enemies' limbs and extremities, providing openings and ruining their attacks.
Mobility: 5. Though unrelated to his personal ice magics, "Spades" is Jack's second-most-favored moniker for a reason: wind magic is a beautifully useful thing. Jack almost always has air enchantments on to keep him moving faster than anyone else on the battle field. Along with somewhat heightened reaction speeds, Jack is hard to hit and quick to hit back.
Defense: 2. The ice can be used as shields and stuff... but it breaks kinda easily. It can also be used to chill and cover wounds, which can be good for a temporary bandage, but A. That's fucking cold, B. It's rigid like a cast, and C. It doesn't actually have any healing properties that are any different from normal ice.
Excel: 2. This is the jokers. Essentially: whatever you need, they'll do it. Wild cards. Dues ex machina. Etc.

Hypers:
Ace up my sleeve [5]: Any card I need, right now. Squirreled away for that special occasion. This can be any card, aside from the Jokers. Still depletes that card
Straight flush/dead man's hand [6]: Throw the whole fucking deck at you. This is absolute chaos, will probably cause damage to everybody, and completely depletes the deck - as in, no magic cards until they recharge. But it'll be fucking worth it.
Flashpoint [3]: Instant movement to either an enemy or an ally. Not terribly fancy, not terribly powerful, but always useful.
Raise the stakes/frozen spire [4]: One free tower, made of ice. Good for sniping, getting friendlies out of harm's way, impaling particularly large nasties, and looking around from a higher vantage point.
Excel, Wild Card: I explained this above, I don't think I need to explain it again, but it's quick, so *shrug*: it does whatever the hell I need it to.

[ragnarok97071]

Spoiler: what the fuck have I done (click to show/hide)

Name: Nomura Chise
Age: (hard to tell under the belts, and she can't exactly -tell anyone-)
Gender: Female (?)
Appearance: A human-shaped (and relatively well-defined) human form completely covered from head to foot in belts, limbs bound together against her body and each other, leaving only a single long lock of hair bobbing oddly above her head, which seems to reflect her mood by moving and bobbing around. What they look like under these wrappings is unknown.
Current Regalia: An entire array of belts, large and small, all leather, crossing and overlapping over her entire body, all tightly closed except for one that hangs down behind her like a tail, which apparently previously wrapped around the top of her head judging by the... impressively gravity-resistant lock of hair that stands up from the top of her head. These belts can all be manipulated independently, their trailing ends also known to grow incredibly long at times in order to serve as manipulators.
Background: Unknown. Chise only recently showed up, and doesn't exactly communicate much, likely because... well, their mouth is covered with belts and held shut with more belts.
Stats:
Ranged: 0 - While Chise is capable of detecting objects and beings, presumably through her hairtenna, this reach does not extend beyond Close Quarters, and thus she cannot attack beyond this.
Close Quarters: 7 - Freely manipulating the belts allows for all range of attacks within close range, their sharp tips both useful for slashing and stabbing attacks, and their strong lengths able to wrap around and constrict targets, or swing them powerfully into hard or sharp objects.
Mobility: 5 - Chise's mobility is more focused on very quick, short-range motions, her beltacles used to swing, pull, launch, and otherwise locomote herself around at high speed, though this can't be done for long since it requires more effort.
Defense: 7  - The belts are hard and unyielding, cutting Chise off from the outside world, providing a great deal of both mental and physical resistance.
Requiem: Non-Visual Detection - Chise is able to detect objects, energies, and beings in close quarters through her Hairtenna. As long as it is extended and active, she has 365 degree vision within Close Quarters range, granting a large bonus to evasion against attacks at this range, but also causing a corresponding decrease in evasion against attacks made at longer ranges.
Hypers:
Belt Sign - [Full Leather Bunker] - 6 - Belts partially unwind around Chise's body, forming a sphere of thick, hardened leather and embedding extensions of belts into every nearby available surface, forming a defensive cocoon. This completely nullifies her mobility, but grants a corresponding increase to all defenses as well as an immunity to control and forced movement abilities.
Belt Sign - [Leather Hunting] - 3 - Belts lash out toward a nearby enemy, seeking to wrap around their body and constrict them, holding them in place.
Belt Sign - [Leather Coffin] - 5 - After one has been bound with the lesser ability, they can be dispatched properly, hundreds of sharpened belt-tips stabbing into their body from all angles, violently impaling them from all directions. Deals massively increased damage, but can only be used on a target restrained with Leather Hunting.
Belt Sign - [Protective Shield of Leather] - 4 -While Full Leather Bunker is active, Chise can pull a nearby ally into her shield, requiring enemies to break through her shield in order to hit them. By making momentary openings in the belt wall, Chise can allow them to still attack for a turn by lowering the defense boost and allowing a well-aimed shot to hit either her or her ally through the protections.

[Empiricist]

Uh, just as a heads up Glass, this game is already full and the location and details have been locked. Ragnarok just, has found a new hobby of making sign up sheets for already full games, including full games he's currently in. If there are any changes I'll contact you, though I do have multiple people apparently interested in this RPG-equivalent of a burning landfill.

[Glass]

Uh, just as a heads up Glass, this game is already full and the location and details have been locked. Ragnarok just, has found a new hobby of making sign up sheets for already full games, including full games he's currently in. If there are any changes I'll contact you, though I do have multiple people apparently interested in this RPG-equivalent of a burning landfill.

...


I actually completely missed that the OP was from Dec 7. I just saw the thread on the front page and decided I wanted to join. :/

Mind telling me the setting/quest decisions, though?

[Empiricist]

I actually completely missed that the OP was from Dec 7. I just saw the thread on the front page and decided I wanted to join. :/

You can blame Ragnarok for that

Mind telling me the setting/quest decisions, though?

The players ended settling on Sendo City, with the Quests of Knight Errant, Seek and Destroy, Capitalism, Ho!, Reagan's Fortune (minus Reagan), with a bit of Feng Shui. Modifiers are Form Shift, Marked for Death, Jackass, and possibly The Farce.

Faznie and Tor are just entering Sendo, Faznie in search of a muse, or perhaps already with a project in mind, Tor seeking to stop the machinations of the Card Emperors. A tip-off leads to Sasha and Immanuel joining forces with the pair to halt an assassination attempt on Tor, embroiling them all with the hunt for rare cards that hold the sealed power of various historical figures within them, sought after not only by the Card Emperors but also various other malevolent factions who seek to abuse their powers.

By channeling the power of the cards, the PCs will be able to take on their aspects to assist them with their quest (once they actually acquire them at least).

In addition, these enigmatic contacts of the party are willing to lend their services and resources to combat this threat, for a price. They have unknown goals pertaining to Sendo City, and in exchange for services rendered, often dealng with the placement of monuments and such, they will lend their aid.

[Glass]

I am aware that I am probably never entering this game. That said, could I get some feedback on Jack? I'd just like to know if he'd even be allowed in if a spot opened up, or if he's too over- or under-powered (or just doesn't fit the group, I guess).

[Empiricist]

I am aware that I am probably never entering this game. That said, could I get some feedback on Jack? I'd just like to know if he'd even be allowed in if a spot opened up, or if he's too over- or under-powered (or just doesn't fit the group, I guess).

He's got a pretty neat build and is fine save for the fact that Dead Man's Hand is going to be an Excel Hyper (at the very least, may have to have additional conditions fixed to it to accommodate its raw power), or like have the additional requirement it requires Resolve expenditure on top of the result burning, due to the sheer balls to the wall insanity a potentially 54-card barrage is going to unleash.

Well, assuming the idea is that he uses like, one or two cards a turn in exchange for powerful effects. If he's throwing out entire hands but the individual card effects are weaker than yeah, that'll be fine.

[Glass]

52 cards (no Jokers, of course), but yeah, I can see why that could be an issue...
The main issue is that yes, it's got a shit-ton of raw power, but there's basically no way to control it. It's kinda like setting off a nuke by hand.

Would it make more sense to take the top 5 cards off the deck and throw those? Or at least, would it balance it? Again, it's 5 totally random cards and basically impossible to control other than pointing it at your enemies and hoping it doesn't hit you as well, but it's presumably not as much OP monstrousness as literally throwing the whole deck at someone and creating an uncontrollable maelstrom.

As for the deck, it's supposed to be that low-value (Edit: mid-value, I'd say 5s and 6s are the minimum you need for combat-worthy effects; below is just basic utilities) cards are used for normal effects (fireball, gusts of wind, etc.) while the face cards and such are reserved for emergencies, times where you need a lot of power, or occasions where you know for certain there'll be time for everything to recharge. Remember, each card takes its value in hours to be usable again, and the faces take 11. That was also part of the drawback of the original DMH: the deck isn't going to be usable at anything even approaching full power for a good 6 hours.

[Empiricist]

Throwing a few works, and still would be a [6] just from unpredictability yeah.

36 combat worthy effects at once at the cost of being fairly unpredictable, partially the disabling Regalia for quite a while... hmm... eugh... that is going to be a borderline case. In game I'd call it a [6] in that case and see if it works. Though my preference would be to not have to track resources in term of hours and whatnot... which would push a full deck throw it into Excel Hyper territory.

[Glass]

It's likely rare that I'd ever actually be throwing all of those once, actually. It's pretty much guaranteed that I'd have already used a good number of cards already, and that I'm getting desperate. I'd estimate that I'm likely to have only half my combat-worthy deck left if I'm using it.
As for hours, feel free to substitute keeping track of that for "they recharge when narratively convenient". Only thing to say on that is that higher-power cards take longer to do recharge than lower-power ones (of course).

And yeah, it was already a [6].