Life is not a card game. Although the System thinks otherwise—and hands out magic cards. Weapons, armor, combat and magical skills, even slave-players—build a deck out of whatever you consider necessary and can manage to obtain.
Only here, unlike in card games, sometimes you have to “whack the goose” in the literal sense—by hitting someone over the head with a sword. And to fool around—just not tossing cards—well, that’s practically a sacred duty.
The main thing is to always keep a couple of aces up your sleeve. Or at least queens. Though queens are even preferable…