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It's true that the entropy of a system is not quite extensive for
composite systems made of nearly identical subsystems. Actually, in your
latter case the entropy would only be practically independent of the
size of the pile *if* you could by some means guarantee that the
microscopic state of each of the identical decks of cards was exactly the
same one.
This would be a very difficult feat to try to pull off in
practice.