Because of the lack of manual saves, autosave experience is a bummer. Feel it's needed.

Rayla leaves if you spare some elves during the NEXT CHAPTER intro
Monster hunter leaves if you spare a dragon
Dwarf can get his head lopped off not much sooner than a quest to upgrade his card,but you get some great dwarf commons with cheesed abilities to allow you to win any count game...uncertain if that's an either or situation.

Both he and Monster hunter have loot prompts for the next chapter so obviously they can hang around

+ Numerous events like those Nilf Mercs who join you,and are pretty good because they pre deploy just from being in the deck making archer count/etc higher w/o shuffling woes.

There are plenty of good cards, so even losing a great card like Rayla isn't a problem but you lose all their tent content,dialogue/options in future sides, and for what?

*Optional kill "named unit" prevents some ppls recruitment?

Would be nice to see a list of something like Let dragon live and baby saskia joins the party at expense of MH (idk) or lose Rayla and get Lorveth (idk)