The unique artistic style achieved with the Robin Hood playing cards took heavy inspiration from the Bayeux Tapestry - a French tapestry from around 1066. If you look closely at each card, you'll find that designer Jackson Robinson drew every stitch by hand to create this incredible display of artistic achievement.

The tuck case was intricately designed to resemble an ancient book, including life-like features to resemble canvas and leather design-work, a book spine, frayed paper edges and finished with realistic wear-n-tear details.

The diptych jokers from the Robin Hood deck show the legendary first encounter of Robin Hood and Little John. ⁣

The Arthurian Holy Grail Edition playing cards are hand-illustrated, medieval playing cards celebrating the story and legend of King Arthur and many characters that have surrounded his court for hundreds of years.

This medieval playing card deck is illustrated in the style of The Book of Kells which is believed to have originated in the same geographical area around the same time as the legend of King Arthur.

The Gold Gilded Arthurian features the same artwork and card design as the Standard edition, with the addition of gold gilded edges. Gilded Arthurian decks will ship with a gold tear strip in order to distinguish between the two editions.

VHS 1982 is a nostalgic retro playing card deck that brings back memories of putting electrical tape over your VCR to keep it from blinking all night long and blowing the Nintendo game cartridge out before you start a 4 hour Contra marathon with you big brother.

VHS 1982 is a light-hearted deck that is inspired by the bold designs of the early 80s. The Kings Wild standard court cards get a totally rad upgrade with face-melting holographic foiling on both the front and the back of these retro playing cards.

If you are wondering about the origin of this retro playing card deck idea, 1982 and February are Jackson's birth year and month!

For an extra level up, the classic VHS cassette back design of this 80s themed deck features a flipbook "Be Kind Rewind" effect.

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Each Standard Edition comes in a uniquely designed tuck case. The Standard Edition is NOT individually numbered but currently no more than around 700-800 Standard Edition are produced each month.

Featuring hand-drawn vintage style artwork throughout, this classic blue deck is printed by Legends PCC on their pre-crushed stock with classic finish and housed in a soft matte tuckbox printed on the inside with an all-over antique plaid pattern. Inspired by the majestic bird of the same name, the Osprey No 2 Vintage Playing Cards are a sight to behold. The entire deck, including the faces, pips, indices, Courts and back have been drawn from scratch. Together with Goshawk Vintage Playing Cards they form a blue and red two deck set that can be housed in our collectable tobacco tin for the perfect gift to yourself or a loved one. Poker size. Standard style faces. These premium playing cards are perfect for magicians, games-players and collectors.

Funded as a Kickstarter project on March 19, 2015 with kr462,035 (Swedish Krona, which is about $57k USD) pledged from 1,015 backers, this was the Kickstarter attempt at funding this project after the failed CardLauncher (cardlauncher.com) platform attempt, where that platform has since been abandoned.  In that process an earlier protoype (V.01) was created as a prototype and also as a promotional deck for CardLauncher itself which had 55 cards with black and white courts, different tuck-box, different aces, and was printed by MakePlayingCards in 525 units. 

For this project the deck was revised with new and modified face cards, back and tuck and was available in Bicycle branded, unbranded, plus a special Crown Edition hand created tuckcase with the same size and face cards.  It was printed by USPCC on Bicycle Stock with 56 cars including 3 jokers and a gaff card with a custom seal and embossed tuck used on both decks.  The deck as also available as an add-on in uncut format.  In addition, mini and micro formats were available as gifts with larger sized tiers which were printed by MPC (MakePlayingCards.com).

There is no specific theme in this deck, it´s quite eclectic and I let my fantasy run when I illustrated the courts. The diamonds have clearly an Egyptian resemblance, but overall they belong to a parallel world. There is a thing that connects all the court cards: the text circling the background is a part of the Aeneid, a Latin epic poem written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. 

for scans of each card

http://www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/httml/Cards/No17.html

2020 DOTY Award Nominee: 'Best Joker'

The iconic Kings Wild Tigers that first debuted on Kickstarter in 2018 now make a grand return with the Kings Wild Tigers 2nd Edition featuring new colors and new designs, but that same perfectly executed vintage matchbox look and feel. This Gilded Edition features a blue, prism gilding on the decks.

"I have always been interested and also inspired by printing methods and aesthetics of the late 1800s & early 1900s, especially the wide range of matchbook ephemera produced all over the world. I find it so interesting that so much beauty and variety can be found in material that, at the time, was produced to be "throw away". The Kings Wild Tigers are an artistic study and creation, in the form of playing cards, that pays homage to the beautiful world of matchbook printing of the late 1800s & early 1900s." - Jackson Robinson, Designer, CEO