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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => A Cellar of Fine Vintages => Topic started by: TheBadJoker on June 30, 2014, 09:18:10 AM

Title: COMPLETE DECK
Post by: TheBadJoker on June 30, 2014, 09:18:10 AM

Question of the day.  Why do deck listings on Ebay and elsewhere state that a deck is "complete" when it is missing a joker?  Not!

Title: Re: COMPLETE DECK
Post by: 52plusjoker on June 30, 2014, 01:36:07 PM

Like to think it is ignorance BUT too often shady practice.

Title: Re: COMPLETE DECK
Post by: Don Boyer on June 30, 2014, 08:21:56 PM

I will say that I know many people who don't even regard the jokers as part of the deck.  They toss 'em away and forget they exist.  Seriously, how many vintage decks do you own that have no jokers?  That would be one major reason right there.

As a result, I don't find it surprising that some people consider 52 cards to be a complete deck.