Card game culture has led to the near-universal popularity and availability of French-suited playing cards even in areas with their own regional card art. In Japan, a distinct 48-card hanafuda deck is popular. It is derived from 16th-century Portuguese decks, after undergoing a long evolution driven by laws enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate attempting to ban the use of playing cards The best-known deck internationally is the 52-card Anglo-American deck used for such games as poker and contract bridge. It contains one card for each unique combination of thirteen "ranks" and the four French "suits" "spades", "hearts", "diamonds", and "clubs". The ranks
Legend of the Five Rings (collectible card game) Lion Clan. Wolfgang Baur comments: "In the case of collectible card games, the outstanding title after "Magic: The Gathering" is "Legend of the Five Rings" (known to its fans as "L5R"). It inspires loyalty and devotion in those fans unlike any other CCG, and for good reason." According to Matt Wilson of Alderac, the game had a strong following in Philadelphia and "towards New York" as well as stating "we own southern California". Legend of the Five Rings (collectible card game) Legend of the Five Rings (L5R) is an out-of-print collectible card game created by Alderac Entertainment Group in 1995