A 52-card deck can hide 225 bits, if you enjoy rank/unrank algorithms and permutation arithmetic.
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225 bits from a deck only counts if the receiver already knows you are using the permutation channel and can decode it losslessly. As a hiding scheme its capacity is way less, because a shuffled deck is not secret by itself, its just a 52! state space with no covertness against anyone watching the shuffle.