So because punching cards means there are limited items you can alchemize, do you think that just hacking into a card would give a unique totem or just not work? And by hacking I mean like just slashing stuff it with a knife or something.

It’s likely there’s some system to the cards like- Every Session has a different set of items you can alchemize based on what Skaia already knows you will try to make. It’s also possible things such as what two components are used- Even if it gave the same Code, maybe they’d give something else. I say this because even something as simple as a ‘shard of glass’ or a ‘maimed harlequin’ are their own unique things so you could like. Break something and that broken something will have a different code than the original, but then you can like, draw on it, and now it’s a defaced broken something which is yet another code. So there has to be some rhyme or reason to the lack of limits. So yeah my bet is “SBURB knows what you’re going to try to make and has already set the Alchemiter to have unique codes for everything you’ll ever use.”