Order by the year each player joined the Toronto Raptors. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Each Raptor in this deck gets dated by the season he first arrived in Toronto. Under every name you'll find a position. One player sits on the timeline from the start, his year in view. Read the next card, then drop it into the gap where you think he joined. If you're right, the year shows and the card stays; if you're wrong, he still slides to his proper slot, but you lose one of three lives.
The only Canadian team in the league, Toronto started as an expansion club, so the whole deck lives within the modern NBA. That makes it compact and crowded: the dinosaur-jersey beginnings, the years as a playoff regular, the title run and the rebuild that followed all sit close together. Centers turn up constantly. Short-stay veterans who passed through between the bigger eras are the hardest cards to pin down.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
































