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
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