Editing Playing card (section)

=== Persia ===

Despite the wide variety of patterns, the suits show a uniformity of structure. Every suit contains twelve cards with the top two usually being the [[court card]]s of [[King (playing card)|king]] and [[Vizier#Playing card rank|vizier]] and the bottom ten being [[pip card]]s. Some decks can contain 8 suits to make a 96-card deck, like the deck for [[Ganjifa]]. Half the suits use reverse ranking for their pip cards. There are many motifs for the suit pips but some include coins, clubs, jugs, and swords which resemble later [[Mamluk Sultanate|Mamluk]] and Latin suits. [[Michael Dummett]] speculated that Mamluk cards may have descended from an earlier deck which consisted of 48 cards divided into four suits each with ten pip cards and two court cards.<ref>[http://i-p-c-s.org/faq/basics.php Playing card basics] at the [[International Playing-Card Society]] website</ref>