page_title: Skat (card game)
section_title: Deck
hierarchical_section_title: Skat (card game) / Rules / Deck
caption_attribution_description: English: skat deck, 32 cards, French deck with German suits Deutsch: Skatblatt, 32 Blatt, französisches Bild mit deutschen Farben
context_page_description: Skat is a 3-player trick-taking card game of the Ace-Ten family, devised around 1810 in Altenburg in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. It is the national game of Germany and, along with Doppelkopf, it is the most popular card game in Germany and Silesia and one of the most popular in the rest of Poland. It is considered one of the best and most interesting card games for 3 players and has been described as "the king of German card games."
context_section_description: The deck consists of 32 cards. Many modern decks use the French deck consisting of an ace (Ass), king (König), queen (Dame), jack (Bauer), 10, 9, 8 and 7 in all four suits (clubs ♣, spades ♠, hearts ♥ and diamonds ♦). Some players in Eastern and Southern Germany and Austria prefer traditional German decks with suits of acorns , leaves , hearts  and bells , and card values of deuce (Daus), king (König), Ober, Unter, 10, 9, 8, and 7 in all four suits. Until recently in Saxony and Thuringia, for example, German-suited decks were used almost exclusively. By contrast, regions of the former West Germany had adopted a French-suited deck.
  Since German reunification, a compromise Turnierbild deck is used in tournaments that uses the shapes of the French suits but with corresponding German suit colors, green spades ♠ imitating leaves and gold diamonds ♦ imitating bells. The choice of deck does not affect the rules.
caption: Skat deck with tournament face
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