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",
Wyvern modern fantasy fiction, though its first literary appearances may have been in medieval bestiaries. The wyvern is a frequent charge in English heraldry and vexillology, also occasionally appearing as a supporter or crest. A white ("Argent") wyvern formed the crest of the Borough of Leicester as recorded at the heraldic visitation of Leicestershire in 1619: "A wyvern sans legs argent strewed with wounds gules, wings expanded ermine." The term "sans legs" may not imply that the wyvern was "without legs", rather that its legs are not depicted, being hidden or folded under. This was adopted by the Midland Railway in