OK, we're getting a wee bit off topic, but yes, there are games that use four suits and a Major Arcana like a traditional tarot deck, but those cards are a little more stripped down in design to allow them to be more functional in a card game.
Here's a hand from French tarot game deck - it uses the modern suits of hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds, but it also has a Major Arcana indexed in Roman numerals to allow them to be held "squeezer-style" in a card hand. Note the use of "R" for roi (king), "V" for valet (attendant) and "C" for chevalier (horseman, or knight). In a modern 52-card deck, these two cards are reduced to the one value, "Jack". It's why someone who was versatile and could do the jobs of the valet and the horseman was considered a jack-of-all-trades...
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