Adventurer's Inn Balamb Garden, SeeD Academy Baron, Airship Kingdom Capital City Clive's Hideaway Crossroads Village Eden, Seat of the Sanctum Gohn, Town of Ruin Gongaga, Reactor Town Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway Insomnia, Crown City Ishgard, the Holy See Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital Lindblum, Industrial Regency Midgar, City of Mako Rabanastre, Royal City Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars Starting Town The Gold Saucer Treno, Dark City Vector, Imperial Capital Windurst, Federation Center Zanarkand, Ancient Metropolis
How the Illuminary was created, who the Curator is, why Ursula is locked away, and why its abandoned are all questions we have for the original timeline
It's also worth mentioning that the scene cards are all mechanically unique
In general, looting a card back to the top of your deck is worse than discarding a card (since you can't take advantage of any graveyard synergies), which means the +1 is only powerful with a very narrow subset of cards (things like Miracles)