Standard playing cards

The aces from a deck of standard playing cards

Standard playing cards or the French deck is a deck of 52 cards (or more if jokers are included).

A deck contains four suits; two red; hearts (♥) and diamonds (♦) and two black; clubs (♣) and spades (♠). Each suit has thirteen cards; an ace, the numbers 2 to 10 and the face cards; jack, queen and king. The deck can be used for a variety of different games.

In-universe

In Yu-Gi-Oh! series, the following games have been played:

• Clock solitaire
• Four Aces
• Dark Yugi and Ushio's Shadow Game (Toei)

Yugi Muto once made a card tower using these cards.

Real-world

In around 1998, a set of Yu-Gi-Oh! Playing Cards were produced by Angel Playing Cards which featured artworks of cards and characters from the Toei anime series.

Another set of Yu-Gi-Oh! Playing Cards, based on the NAS anime series, was later produced by Aquarius Entertainment Merchandising.

Card artworks

A number of Duel Monsters/Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game cards have been based on standard playing cards or games involving standard playing cards, including:

• Three Musketeers of Face Cards
  • Jack's Knight
  • Queen's Knight
  • King's Knight
• Arcana Knight Joker
• Royal Straight
• Royal Straight Slasher
• Straight Flush

External links

• Playing card on Wikipedia
• Standard 52-card deck on Wikipedia