Alright, so I've taken some time and made a new tool which should help with this immensely. Hopefully. If it works... lol
Here's, the idea: Unzip the contents of this zip into its own folder. Only the EXE and the INI should exist. The ini can be deleted if you want to keep the default wad name (which is "DATA_DLC_CW_LITE").
Run the EXE and it'll let you know what it needs and where. It needs the CW core wad, all CW art wads, Gibbed Tools, and your decks to process. The CW files go into the folder with the EXE itself. The other two sets of files each go into their own subfolders, which it will create and tell you to fill. Once that's all done, it'll process the decks and create a custom wad file with only the cards and art needed to make it work. It'll catch any directly created cards as well as tokens made by those cards (hopefully those tokens are properly registered, because that's how it decides what to grab). That wad
should theoretically be usable in place of the CW.
A note, make sure you include ALL decks at once. The decks themselves are NOT included in the new custom wad. The new custom wad will contain the functions, cards, and art, and any other files needed from the CW. But like the CW itself, it won't contain decks.
- Extra info - This will make more sense after you've used it once or twice. | Open
- It'll keep all function files and text permanent files and such, and then just because of how widely they're used and how damaging it can be to have them missing, it'll also automatically include all 10 or so manager tokens and RiiakShiNal's manual mana tokens whether anything registered them or not.
I have not tested the created wad. You'll have to let me know how that bit goes. It's worth nothing that it takes a LONG time to unpack the art wads and the core (though the core is nothing compared to the art). Decks can also take quite awhile. However, once they've been done once, as long as you don't mess with the created custom wad folder, you can just drop updated wads into their folders and run it from there. Meaning drop new decks into the Decks folder, drop updated core and art wads into the main folder (the folder with the EXE in it). It understands when it already has the files it needs.
DO NOT delete files from inside the CARDS folder it creates or from the ILLUSTRATIONS folder it creates. Also DO NOT delete files from inside the deck folders (the subfolders inside the "Decks" folder). You can safely delete any of those FOLDERS, but do NOT delete files inside those folders. (It checks that the folder itself exists. If the folder's contents are messed up, it won't recognize that and you'll have problems.) Same goes for the custom wad folder. If you change the name, you'll need to supply the core and art wads again.
If you don't want to wait for that again after changing the name in the ini, then rename the custom wad folder, the subfolder, and open the @header.xml file and HEADER.XML file (you'll see them while renaming the folders) and change the name there, too.