EQD &ndash; The Emotology Q-sort The EQD is a deck of 52 cards, each card describes a different emotion. The emotion cards are embedded in a deck of playing cards, red suits describe pleasant positive emotions; blue suits describe emotions of distress. The purpose is to assess and improve emotional life and emotional stress balance. The recreational and psycho-educational games developed for the cards can be obtained through Amazon.com Culturing Emotional Wisdom under other products.