Here's my swing at it! The image has two frames, a cropped and full sized, other than that just these events shown. You could easily make sure when cards are dropped they're separated enough so they don't overlap when grown full-sized. Also when they're in your "hand", they wouldn't grow and stay on frame 0 which you can do the opposite when they're in play - staying on frame 1.
ps. be sure to set the block to destroy at the end of the tween!
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