Each player needs a Starter Deck to play and there are 6 to choose. Each Starter has its on unique set of cards, not based off a theme or time period but world history throughout time. This deck includes please like: Harriet Tubman, Tokyo Rose, Apache, French Musketeers, Ming Warriors, Venezuelan Rebels, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Sir William Stephenson, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Edgar Allen Poe, Brothers Grimm, Frederic "The Ice King" Tudor, Ashoka The Great, Mao Tse-Tung, Vlad the III, Prince of Wallachia, Greece, Israel, Mali, Samoa, US East Coast, Venezuela, Dead Sea Scrolls, Friedrich Hayek, Geisha, Black Death (Bubonic Plague), Chernobyl, October Revolution, Swing Era, Joshua Slocum, Pedro Alvares Cabral, Sir John Franklin and Francis Crozier, Sir John Hawkins, Laika the Dog, Eli Whitney, Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin, Heliocentric Solar System, Emperor Constatine, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher, Tsar Nicholas II, Eiffel Tower, George Frederick Handel, House of Representatives, Lope de Aguirre, Confucius, etc