Tarot

Viking Secret Wildcard Poker Add-on Deck
This page deals with cards from the game Tarot as they pertain to the rules of Viking Secret Wildcard Poker.

Overview

Tarot cards are a set of cards used in fortune telling and tarot games. This page is not about the Tarot as such, but about integrating it into VSWP. As of the last edit to this page, these rules have not been playtested.

Card types

There are two sets of cards in the tarot: the minor arcana and the major arcana. The standard playing deck is an adapted form of the minor arcana. The four suits in the minor arcana are swords, wands, pentacles, and cups. The minor arcana suits contain four face cards each: page, knight, queen, and king. The major arcana contains 22 numbered cards, with no suit.

Setup

When using a tarot deck in Viking Secret Wildcard Poker, the tarot deck(s) are shuffled into the general deck.

Rules

There are few general rules for cards from the tarot in VSWP.

• Major arcana cards numbered one through 14 count as that value of any suit of card.
• Major arcana cards higher than 14 are wild.
• Cups corresponds to hearts.
• Wands corresponds to clubs.
• Pentacles corresponds to diamonds.
• Swords corresponds to spades.
• Because the knight in chess can jump other pieces, the knight beats a tie between players.

Different Decks

There are many different tarot decks. A card beats a card of equal or lesser value from another deck that's name begins with a lower letter of the alphabet. The only exception is that a card from a Rider Waite deck beats a card from any other tarot deck.