Wyvern (card game) Wyvern (card game) Wyvern is an out-of-print collectible card game featuring dragons and wyverns battling for treasure. The game was produced by U.S. Games Systems, Inc., with the original product launch in January 1995. Wyvern is a two player game with two decks per player (with each player supplying his or her own two decks). One of the decks, the "Dragon Lair Draw Pile", is made up of "dragon" and "terrain" cards. The other deck, the "Treasure Horde Draw Pile", is made up of "action" and "treasure" cards. Players begin with 6 face-down dragon and terrain cards on the "battlefield",
Crosses in heraldry Crosses in heraldry The cross is a basic design of two intersecting lines (X) used from pre-historic times. Its use was enormously expanded as the Christian cross, from about the 6th century, deriving from a T-shape representing the gibbet ("stauros", "crux") of the crucifixion of Jesus in use from at least the 2nd century. From the 11th century, and increasingly during the age of the Crusades, a variety of forms of cross symbols were developed for the purpose of the emerging system of heraldry, which appeared in western Europe in about 1200. The cross was displayed on banners and flags