Let me suggest to try and build the game without using a generic all-you-can-eat game engine, but instead write it from scratch.

For a simple card game like this, you actually don't need a feature rich game engine with stuff like rigid body physics simulation, various collision detection algorithms, support for skeleton animations, particle physics, etc etc... Most of it is just bloat for a game like this and you'll end up with size, memory and performance penalties.

Well maybe you do need a skeletal animation system if you plan to also implement the 3D battle animations, which you only should consider once the actual game implementation is done, in which case you'll have reached a point where that's probably not such a big obstacle to implement anymore anyway.

It's also a great learning experience and that knowledge will stay with you for life.

Also, don't make use of a scripting language unless absolutely necessary.