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
Battle Cattle: The Card Game Battle Cattle: The Card Game Battle Cattle: The Card Game is a card game published by Steve Jackson Games. The game mechanics are based on the same system as , so the two games are able to be combined, with some players playing cows and some players playing cars. The game concept is based on the Battle Cattle miniatures game published by Wingnut Games. The gameplay is based on the idea of putting a bunch of cows augmented with heavy weapons in an arena with two objectives, to kill the rest of the cows as quickly as possible with the