New suits and colour
The deck contains 9 suits, in 3 colours, with 17 cards per suit. In addition to the 4 traditional playing card suits (hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs), it contains cards in 5 new suits, with one extra black and red suits, and three all new blue suits:
- Cups (black)
- Shields (red)
- Crowns (blue)
- Bottles (blue)
- Anchors (blue)
All the suits, plus joker:
The black suits:
The blue suits:
The red suits:
The number cards:
New face cards
In addition to the traditional cards (2-10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace, and one joker in each colour), each suit in the deck also has 4 new face cards:
- Bishop
- Cardinal
- Pope
- God
A religious theme was chosen for the additional face cards because it was a logical extension of the medieval theme of the traditional face cards. The only power comparable to the royalty was the church.
The new face cards:
New possibilities
In order to make the deck more flexible, each face card is marked only with a letter corresponding to its name (i.e. "J", "Q", "K", "B", "C", "P", "G"), so games are free to interpret these cards as they wish.
Design by Gilded Whiskers.