Rise of a Nation is a 100% custom deck of playing cards being produced by the Barclay Mountain Co. It will be the first deck of the Decoded History Series in which we’ll explore the more interesting pieces of our history while at the same time making a unique experience by creating coded messages that are discreetly hidden within the design.

The first deck will explore the creation of the United States and how Freemasonry played a vital role. The court cards for this deck were carefully chosen to advance the idea that our country was designed with a divine purpose in mind.

The use of esoteric images, special number groupings, bible verse references and masonic coded messages will unlock a series of locations within the Washington DC area that will form a greater picture. It will also provide answers to the true objective of our nation's capital.

This collector edition was originally meant as a $18,000 stretch goal to be made available in that KickStarter project, but it ended up being offered as a part of the BackerKit even though the KickStarter project only funded at the $7,250 level.  It was also upgraded to USPCC printing like the Standard version was, even though that too was originally a missed stretch goal.

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Rise of a Nation is a 100% custom deck of playing cards being produced by the Barclay Mountain Co. It will be the first deck of the Decoded History Series in which we’ll explore the more interesting pieces of our history while at the same time making a unique experience by creating coded messages that are discreetly hidden within the design.

The first deck will explore the creation of the United States and how Freemasonry played a vital role. The court cards for this deck were carefully chosen to advance the idea that our country was designed with a divine purpose in mind.

The use of esoteric images, special number groupings, bible verse references and masonic coded messages will unlock a series of locations within the Washington DC area that will form a greater picture. It will also provide answers to the true objective of our nation's capital.

The upgrade for this deck to be printed by USPCC was originally meant as a $18,000 stretch goal in that KickStarter project, but it ended up being printed by USPCC even though the KickStarter project only funded at the $7,250 level.  The other part of that stretch goal was a special collectors version which also was made available via BackerKit and also was upgraded to USPCC printing like the Standard version was.

 

Anthony Joseph Vintage Pack of Canadian Native Indian Playing Cards This Standard Size Deck of Playing Cards Designed by BC Indigenous Artist Anthony Joseph.

Clifton Fred, Tlingit Nation. Clifton was born in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory as a Crow from the great Tlingit Tribe. He began drawing in grade one and taught himself to express his feeling and experiences about his people in a medium of drawing and poetry. He learned to write and draw at the same time, and cannot feel one without the other. He has not pursued any secondary training in art and knows very little of art history other than that the Tlingit have always honored the other lives which have sustained their existence. Their visual designs are the unforgotten language, the contemporary cave drawing, the petrified footprint, that tells of an experience. His personal beliefs and the practice of Native Spirituality leads him to perceive animals as greater being than him, and that his existence is dependent upon their presence and not theirs upon him. He hopes that others with compassion and concern will share his attitude towards life, in all forms. As a Crow of the Tlingit tribe, Clifton Fred’s artistic sensibility reflects the views and achievements of his cultural ancestry. As he puts it “through our art I hope we can remind each other of who we were, what we did, and how we felt. If understanding our beginnings enable us to know our ends, then we may find that all cultures have the same origins and therefore the same destiny. Knowing this we can do nothing other than work together.”