FU Decks A special chance for Kickstarter backers to own a bordered version of the Black-gilded Black & White deck about a year before everyone else. Did you catch my recent performance on Penn & Teller: Fool Us? If so, you may have noticed that the Butterfly cards I was using had a black border around them, specially designed to fool the presenters. I had printed 30 ungilded decks in China just for this performance and never intended to gild them. But once I’d seen how amazing the black gilding looked on the Black & White decks, I realized how insanely good it would look on these Fool Us Decks—the black border flowing over the edge into the black gilding. Gorgeous! So let’s do it! Let’s gild these babies with our 1800% stretch goal. Hell, let’s do it anyway! Scrap the goal. We know we're going to reach it! Just pledge for as many add-on decks as you’d like for 200 SEK per deck (+ any additional shipping incurred by an increased number of decks in your total pledge).

The Black & Silver edition is the brightest deck of the Butterfly Playing Cards Black family. It showcases a silver foil to make Stefan Eriksson's beautiful back design artwork even prettier. You will find the foil also on the faces of all of the court cards, the Ace of Spades and one of the two jokers. All four aces have large custom centre pips in the theme of the floral back design. The magic enthusiasts will be delighted to find a double-backer to use in their card magic routines. All Butterfly Playing Cards Black prototypes have been printed by Cartamundi with the True Linen B9 finish. Cartamundi accidentally made the Black & Silver edition more valuable to collectors, by printing Black & Gold on the box. So when you see them being sold on ebay for some ridiculous money, remember that we told you! Only 500 silver foiled prototypes exist. 250 were gilded to test compatibility of gilded edges with the magic features of the deck, and 250 were left non-gilded to compare advantages of both versions. The gilded decks proofed to be functional and will be used to promote a crowdfunding campaign that will launch in Summer 2019. 200 of the non-gilded Black and Silver prototype decks are available for sale and will never be reprinted.

Three batches of Prototypes have been printed:

6 Blue & 6 Red prototypes in the first batch where for the kickstarter trailer video and marking system verification.

50 Blue & 10 Red prototypes in the 2nd batch for promotional purposes and testing of the adjusted marking system.

50 Blue prototypes in the 3rd batch to fix the funny mistake I made in the 2nd batch and take the opportunity to further tweak the marking system.