Ila Deck

An ila deck is a sixty-six card deck of six suit deck that evolved amongst members of the Swords while traveling and working. The suits- the swords, daggers, palms (or hands), wands, bows, and arrows are dived into two classes and three colors. The suits also oppose other suits. In order the swords oppose the arrows which oppose the daggers which oppose the bows which oppose the palms which oppose the wands which oppose the swords again. The classes are ranged and melee with swords, daggers, and palms being the melee class and the wands, bows, and arrows the range class. Each color is made up of each suit's opposition's opposition. That is green is made of the swords and bows. Red is the daggers and palms. Blue is the wands and arrows.
Each suits is made of eleven cards, the numbers one through ten plus the Call Card.

History

Various deck styles have always been popular- especially in Caelsimil where the use of the older royal court style decks were frowned upon. Many older deck styles altered the king, queen, and jack to general, commander, and priest, but even still these were unpopular. These fifty-two card decks soon began being cut- three decks mixed into two seventy-eight card decks. These new six suit decks were popular mostly as a novelty with few games developing just for them- however they gained popularity during the Crusade as soldiers found it fun to trade suits from their homeland with that of the neighboring country- creating decks with four suits of royalty or military and two of the other.
Following the crusade it was thought a bit in bad taste to keep the royal and military separation- thus the first six suite decks began to rise in popularity. Still seventy-eight cards but replaced with values one through thirteen. This was found unsuitable for many of the older games, instead a six color system was developed by a card maker and member of the Order who instead chose to base the suits and call cards off notable member's of the Oracle's group.
Though the ila deck is far from dominate, its use among members of the Swords of the Oracle have lead to wide spread use and adoption.

Games

Among those who use ila decks one of the most popular games is Seven-Three, wherein the goal is to be the closest to making twenty-one without going over. In this game the call cards are kept and given a value of ten.
A simpler game, called Opponent, requires the matching of two cards with the same value (or call cards) and of the same color, but different suites (ie. the ten of wands and ten of arrows). Each player starts with an even amount of cards before going in a circle asking their opponents if they have one color value combination, if they get it they get to go again. If not the circle continues. The winner is the first person to empty their hand.
Gillian is a variation on the game by the same name more common with older deck styles. With Ila decks the gambling game has variant rules, especially due to the lack of face cards.
Call is the game where the call cards get their name, and the game the deck was originally invented to work with. Call is a round drinking game where each player draws a card and performs certain (drinking related) actions based on the value of the card. Many groups even alter the drink consumed by color or suit- commonly vodka is greens, wine is red, and mead for the blues. Common value associations is for all women to drink when a six is drawn, the drawer to drink on a 'loner' or one. The most common rule is that the drawer may call out anyone they want to drink on a call card.
The Very Brave Liar is named for its players, a gambling game where each player draws a card and sees each of their opponents cards- but not theirs. Each player then places bets, the winner is the player with the highest card- but they may not look at their own. In a draw, the winners split the pot- unless one has the opposition suit to the other who then gets the whole pot.

Item type

Trade/Manufactured good