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
Catan Card Game Catan Card Game The Catan Card Game, originally named The Settlers of Catan: The Card Game, is a card-game adaptation of "The Settlers of Catan" board game. It is a member of the "Catan" series of games, published by Kosmos in German, and by Mayfair Games in English. The "Catan Card Game" is a two-player game, although the rules can be accommodated as to allow players to share a set or for each player to have their own. Seven expansions of the "Catan Card Game" have been released. In the "Catan Card Game", each player controls a principality of Catan,