"Our world had cards like that back in the Golden Age. Spades, diamonds, clubs, hearts. Don't know if it was the same set, but same set up. Sometimes there was a card, though. The 'Joker', there to just mess with ya. A wild card meant to mess ya up and do whatever it wanted."

He draws another, lays a second.

"Would it be a difference to ya if your men played with a deck of 52, or a deck of 54 with two of those questionable ones all shuffled in there."