Drag & Drop issue snap tile (SL 360)

I second this. I am creating a large card sort of 45 cards. I am sorting them into 4 piles but the tile spacing is ruining the professionalism of the project. The free form looks very sloppy.

Here is an overview of my goal:
I want them to be large and visible to start. When they are dropped on a pile I wish I could change the image to text and make it's tile stacking size shrink to the size of the text. This will allow students to see the cards in large at first, and then once they place them in a pile, they will all be visible (in text form) and capable of being selected in it's smaller state for further resorting into other piles. This will allow students to see an overview of all the cards they have placed in one box even if there are 30 of them in one pile. User access to the drag and drop items after placing them is crucial for reflection in my case. 

Troubleshooting efforts:
I tried to make the normal state the smaller text, start the slide in a custom state (large card image), and have the state switch to the smaller, normal text when it is dropped but unfortunately it still maintains the larger card image size when being sorted in tile format. Any solutions?