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Card deck used in Spain

Spanish suited playing cards or Spanish suited cards have four suits, and a deck is usually made up of 40 or 48 cards (or even 50 by including two jokers). It is categorized as a Latin suited deck and has strong similarities with the Portuguese suited deck, Italian suited deck and some to the French deck. Spanish suited cards are used in Spain, southern Italy, parts of France, Hispanic America, North Africa, and the Philippines.

Playing cards, originally of Chinese origin, were adopted in Mamluk Egypt by the 14th century if not earlier, and from there spread to the Iberian peninsula. The Spanish word naipes is loaned from nā'ib, ranks of face cards found in the Mamluk deck. The earliest record of naip comes from a Valencian rhyming dictionary by Jaume March II in 1371, but without any context or definition. By 1380, naipero (card maker) was a recognized profession. In December 1382, card games were banned from being played in Barcelona's corn exchange. Valencia's town council issued a blanket ban on un novell joch apellat dels naips (a new game called cards) in 1384. "Moorish styled" cards were produced in Catalonia during the late 14th or early 15th century. Unlike modern Spanish decks, there was a rank consisting of 10 pips suggesting that the earliest Spanish packs consisted of 52 cards. The removal of one rank shortened the deck to 48 which made card production simpler: a whole deck could be made with just two uncut sheets. 48 card decks have nine ranks of pip cards (1–9) and three ranks of face cards (10–12). Since the mid 20th century, they have usually been sold with two jokers, for a total of 50 cards. Stripped decks have 40 cards, lacking ranks 8 and 9 and jokers. The popularity of the stripped deck is due to game of ombre, which became a craze throughout Europe during the 17th century. The Spanish suits closely resemble Italian suited cards as both were derived from the "Moorish styled" cards. The four suits are bastos (clubs), oros (literally "golds", that is, golden coins), copas (cups) and espadas (swords). Unlike the suits found in northern Italy, Spanish swords are straight and the clubs resemble knobbly cudgels instead of ceremonial batons. Swords and clubs also do not intersect (except in the 3 of clubs card). Two surviving early decks did have intersecting clubs and swords as in Italian or Mamluk cards. The Spanish may have separated the pips in the 15th century to make them more easily distinguishable (some export cards kept the intersecting pips, such as the Portuguese deck). or the "Dragon cards". Spain and France exported cards to each other, which explains why the kings and jacks in French suited face cards resemble their Spanish counterparts, notably the standing kings. There was some deliberate copying; the king of coins from the Seville and Franco Spanish patterns is near identical to the king of hearts in the French suited Rouen pattern, which was exported to England and through centuries of bad reproduction became known as the "suicide king".

Standard patterns are card designs in the public domain that have been printed by multiple publishers in the past or present. These are regional patterns that are still in use today. Decks with 50 cards have two jokers.