Familiars can be collected!

He might have forgotten about this thread, but when I asked him about this on skype, he said something like "You can use another card to get it again, and it will do the full amount you had"

I can't explain it too well, but from how I understood his explanation it meant

- If you had 1 card, and let it expire, and you used a 2nd card, it would be 60 days.

- If you had 3 cards and let it expire, and you used another card, it would be 90 days

I'll bug him to check this thread later today.

If it stays at 3 orbs forever once you get it there, that wouldn't be quite as bad for everything but Legendary stuff, I suppose.