It could, I know of people who do buy games for the cards, but they tended to be cheap indy $5-$10 impulse buys. The segment of people who will pay $40 just because the game has cards is probably much, much lower.
Larian seems to be much more interested in making quality games that create loyal fans and customers. They way they do that is to focus on the game's quality. They don't have a huge team. Trading cards are nice and all, but spending that dwindling amount of pre-release time left on polishing and tweaking the game will probably earn more fans and better reviews than working on some shiny cards.
My point is that there's no rush to make cards now. The people who are interested enough with cards to buy games just for having them are watching the Trading Card Group announcements like a hawk. Cards could come out a week after the release date and be just as effective at attracting people as they would on day 1.
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