Playing card: Misc

the Minchiate was a deck of playing cards similar to the tarot, but with forty trumps?
the video game Marvel Trading Card Game portrays the Vs System ruleset exactly the same as the physical playing card version?
labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984?

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A playing card was a small piece of card printed with symbols which was used in playing card games.

Playing cards could also be used to perform illusions, instructions for some of which could be found in the book 99 Great Card Tricks You Can Learn in Your Spare Time. (DS9 short story: Dead Man's Hand)

A popular card game was poker. In 2370 the crew of the runabout Amazon replicated a set of cards to play poker to pass the time on their 22 hour journey to the Davon system. (DS9 novel: Devil in the Sky)

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