Good start but I would disagree with your thoughts on Ori as Ori gives the common/uncommon/rare items their value. Otherwise there would be SOoooo many of them printed that they would be completely worthless. Ori is a way to provide value to denar through needing it for upgrades. You must burn the denar to get the items then burn the items you don't want and can't sell for Ori to get upgrades over time.

I would, however, like to see the upgrade costs for lower items lowered so make upgrades more accessable. something like ~5x the burn value so if you get 5 commons you could burn them all for an upgrade while you're searching for the ancients and such.

The scaling of the denar production needs to be reviewed for sure as the top 3 players probably print more than 99% of denar. They could easily crash the denar market to nothing but it would just create more competition for them. I think the only thing stopping them is their desire to upgrade their buildings and find divines. I've been able to buy a few ancient buildings and now it's better for me to sell my denar and buy Ori because 1-1.5 ori will get me ~80 more stats.

There is something missing though. Something to fill the time between the claims. Maybe find another use for the army energy. Some kind of mini game or simple strategy card game to build into the game.