Double Dragon Ante

Double Dragon Ante is a common gambling game on The Northern Continent played with a deck of Three Dragon Ante cards and all the hutzpah a person can muster. The game is a fixed wager version of the simple game "capital," where the winner is the person who, through various means, was able or willing to risk the most. Double Dragon Ante is a favorite among high rollers, adventurers, scoundrels, and Neogi Mindspiders due to it's "high risk, high reward" nature. It is highly addictive.
Players take turns flipping cards from the top of an unshuffled Three Dragon Ante deck, flipping two at a time starting with the second player. Whenever a dragon card is flipped, that player is compelled to wager an amount of currency equal to the dragon's face power. After the first two dragons, players are allowed to resign at any time to cut their losses. When a mortal card is drawn, the player who drew it adds it's face power to the total power of the dragons they drew from the deck, and then the player with the highest total face power, essentially the person who wagered the most, wins the pot. The cards flipped are shuffled and placed at the bottom of the deck. Counting cards is actually impossible, due to the variable size and consistency of the deck's magical properties.
Because of the high risk nature of the game, most professional Double Dragon tables require that each participant enter with enough chips to cover ten times the maximum bet, which is 13. A popular variation of the game involves two "god cards," each of which allow the person who flips it to arbitrate a bet of any value up to maximum table stakes, which then becomes a side pot independent of the rest of the game. These "god cards" add even more risk, intrigue and power to a game of Double Dragon.
In Season One, Episode Nine ship captain Baudin Dommilan wagered his life, the life of his crew, and the Jade Kracken on two god cards against Neogi Neax Hiss in return for the Jade Kracken II and a Sacred Burst Longsword for Janadan Vishnu.
In Season Seven, Episode Nine the crew of the Jade Kraken III played several games against Neax Hiss while resting in Barrensburg, Goneril. Kruglor wagered The Dark Lantern and Ecphrasis, the Shield of Hjartlos, against training in Planecrasher.
In Season Ten, Episode One, Cicero Shadolan broke the bank at the Elfwyn Casino in Prospero during an elaborate airship heist against Coriander Highrun.
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