Card game or for card placement), while board games (the principal non-card game genre to use cards) generally focus on the players' positions on the board, and use the cards for some secondary purpose. A card game is played with a "deck" or "pack" of playing cards which are identical in size and shape. Each card has two sides, the "face" and the "back". Normally the backs of the cards are indistinguishable. The faces of the cards may all be unique, or there can be duplicates. The composition of a deck is known to each player. In some cases several decks are
Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game are only two sets released for the game. The base set, simply titled "Shadowrun", and one expansion, "Underworld", which focuses on the criminals, such as Mafia and Yakuza, and the police that tried to bring them down. Despite its initial success and awards, no further expansions for the game were released. A second printing of the base set, called "Second Running" replaced 39 cards and changed the art for 12 more. "Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game" won the Origins Awards in the categories "Best Trading Card Game of 1997" and "Best Graphic Presentation of a Card Game of 1997". Shadowrun: