These two new suits are wonderful and I believe they are the best-designed additions to a normal deck of cards that exist. And that’s when I found a blog post from a graphic designer ( New Link) online about this very topic in which he presented his own two new suits designed specifically to blend in with the existing decks (the symbol for every suit can be made with fewer than 7 lines). The Empire deck of cards with anchors and crowns makes a really good and nicely fitting deck, but I think better could be done. The Blue Sea deck, which is available from print on demand services, does this, but again I think the new suits don’t quite fit the older deck. How many suits could one fit in a deck and still have it be useful? I started looking at other six-suited decks. While five suited decks were fun, and so were decks with non-traditional suits, I wanted more. The star works as an addition, but it’s a bit bland, and including it smudges the overall design appearance that is so refined, in my opinion. The most common of these are the Star-Deck and various other decks that include stars as a fifth suit, like the game Five Crowns. The design of the pips are far too complicated and modern to really fit the motif of a deck of cards, but are still fun nonetheless.Īfter seeing these, I became fascinated by decks that added more suits to the standards bunch. ![]() ![]() The new suits of wheels (ship wheels) and racquets (as in tennis), while interesting, are only that. One of the earliest (and one of the only) decks that I found that realized this was the vintage Sextet Bridge deck that I picked up from a garage sale. Some people question why we only have four suits with games like bridge, which can handle more suits (so I’m told, I can’t actually play bridge, but I think we’ve all played a game where suit doesn’t really matter). But variations are fun, and while the suits and number of cards in each suit change over several European countries (Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain all have different styles), for some people that isn’t enough. ![]() And it is so popular that it is easily the standard of the world. This deck is accepted by many in the United States and abroad as the standard deck. Most of us know the classic French deck as the one we use all of the time, with four suits that don’t make a whole lot of sense, 13 cards per suit, and two jokers (that are in no way related to the fool from Tarot). It was only a matter of time before I came upon one of the many more unique decks of cards out there. And I’ve ended up with hundreds upon hundreds of decks of cards via my collecting. I’m not entirely sure why I like them so much, but I do. I have a large playing card collection I love decks of cards.
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