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a bit of thinking on TF’s cards

so uhh i’ve been thinking about TF’s card deck and what you can extract from it

gameplay-wise TF has 3 types of cards - blue (eye), red (dagger) and yellow (chain). in what we can take as canon lore (“double-double cross” in particular) tf has eye motif going on on both red and blue card (and possibly on yellow too, but it haven’t been shown yet)

and from his cards in LoR we know that spades (or some suit that has a cad greatly resembling ace of spades) are also a thing in runeterra


and i know that most likely it’s only TF’s deck that is this special and the rest of runeterra uses the same suits of cards as we do in our world

BUT

wouldn’t it be cool if one of runeterran card deck type had only 3 suits instead of 4 and they were inspired/influenced by noxian culture (or more likely mordekaiser’s rule), for example?

i mean, it lines up pretty well - eyes suit for destiny/vision (it even lines up with it’s usage as teleportation card in DDC), daggers/spades possibly (it’s literally “swords” in couple of roman languages lol) for might/domination and chains for deceit/guile (the least harmonious match to be honest but connotations of gold and stun still kinda fit here)
or if we go with eye motif present in all suits the blue suit could be faces (going from teleport card in DDC)

and uhh i guess that’s it. i just think that fantasy worlds deserve to have their own symbols and card’s variations and i also like to do worldbuilding for little inconsequential details

p.s. also major taro arcana as playing deck is a thing, at least in arcane. but arcane is kinda on it’s own right now so i didn’t include it in main thought process

@vaguely-concerned

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