The Original Moku Hanga Inspired Playing Card. The Moku Hanga Inspired Playing Cards Deck is an original set of playing cards designed by À Vol d'Oiseau. It melds the traditional aesthetics of Japanese style woodblock printing with a modern flare inspired by our interests in modern Japanese manga and western comics. The art is printed on 310 gsm linen playing cards. The Joker cards represent Yôkai, monsters from the traditional Japanese folk tales. The one on the right is a Oni (鬼), a demon known for being invincible. The one on the left is Harionago (針女子). She comes from the Japanese prefecture of Ehime on Shikoku island. She is famous for her beauty and ensnaring men with her hair. To see all the cards from this deck go to our previous Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/979432843/moku-hanga-inspired-playing-cards/description

Disparos - Spanish for \'shots\', is how tequila should be consumed. Taking inspiration from the vaqueros and gunslingers of the Mexican old west, the tequila deck is a piece of history. The block printing design and false-edge border gives these cards a rustic look, the kind you\'d expect to find regularly laying about on a three-legged wood table in the local cantina, stained with condensation rings from the cold tequila glasses. No detail has been overlooked with this design, despite the look of the paper, it is the highest quality stock available, finished with Performance Coating for that distinct Ellusionist Deck feel. Jokers show the before and after scenes of the classic tequila shot and an ad card describes how those over the age of 21 can get in on the action. With embossed sugar skulls, duelling pistols and custom everything, these are shots of Tequila you won\'t regret in the morning. Printed in a limited run of 5,000, the First Edition Disparos Deck is exclusively available in the Prohibition Boxed Set.

Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/1052-disparos_tequila

Póstumo is the creation of Obsidian Abnormal and Darren J. Gendron, mixing playing cards with zombie inspirations. It's printed on Bicycle-grade paper from the USPC. We remixed the suits into spades, clubs, hearts and brains, taking literal representations of each. Spades are now actual shovels, while clubs are shown as bats and other blunt objects. Hearts take on a fleshy connotation. Diamonds are replaced by the most valuable thing to a zombie - BRAINS. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dernjg/postumo-the-deck-of-the-dead/description

Available as a direct pre-order and then via direct sale from Thirdway Industries, this deck also won the 2014 Discourse Design Deck Contest. Designed by Giovanni Meroni through his Thirdway Industries, this deck features a fun evil cartoonish theme with unique characters on every card. The suits have sub-themes: Clubs are Nature, Hearts are Passion, Diamonds are Violence and Spades are Magic. The deck was originally part of the failed Card Launcher, an alternate crowd funding website specific to playing cards, and a corresponding alternate 'Good Deck' was also developed at that time, but was not made for sale at the same time after that initial attempted project which was dropped when the platform failed.  The deck was printed by Expert Playing Card Co. using their Master Finish.  The tuck box is matte finish with supergloss finish on white accents, embossed and inner printed with a custom seal.  It was available in standard deck and uncut formats.

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Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/679-the_evil_deck

These Decos feature personalized tuck cases created especially for specific customers using their initials.

Inspiration and/or artwork came from a number of victorian era printed sources including Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Under the Waves: Diving in Deep Waters, A Tale (1876), Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Wirbelthiere (1864), Gustave Doré’s “Death on a Pale Horse” & "Achan Is Stoned to Death", Dictionnaire Infernal (1818), Osteographia - The Anatomy of Bones (1733),  Traité de phrénologie humaine et comparée, accompagné d'un magnifique atlas in-folio de 120 planches, contenant plus de 60 sujets d'anatomie humaine et comparée, d'une parfaite execution (1832), misc victorian era advertising prints and other sources.  These collections of art were updated, even modified in some cases, and broken out into categories by suit: Hearts - Victorian Era Anatomy, Spades - Victorian Era advertising, Clubs - bizarre Victorian Era story telling, Diamonds - Victorian Era nature illustrations.

Limited to 100 decks, printed by MPC.

 

 

The Angelarium is a place where experiences, ideas and archetypes exist as real living entities. It's the domain of angels and emanations. Growing at its center sits the Tree of Life, a physical manifestation that reflects the whole of existence.

Pagan is easily one of the most popular poker decks in the Uusi playing card catalogue.  This deck flew out of our stuido. We stopped offering the Pagan deck to wholesalers 1 month after we received it and 1 year after it's release we have only a handful of the original Pagan decks left at our studio. We we felt this was the perfect occassoion to offer one last Limted Edition of this design. The LE Blue Pagan deck on this project will share the same courts as the original deck, but if funded we will be creating a new joker to join the first. The deck will also be further distinguished by a unique tuck box design that is similar to our tarot tuck.  

• Fifty-two playing cards and two jokers all with original, eye-catching artwork that makes them ideal for magic and card games, yet at the same time very familiar and immediately recognizable by players and spectators alike.
• 2 Ad Cards
• Printed by The United States Playing Card Company.
• Limited Edition of 3000. 
• Premium paper and gold foil design for the tuck box.
• Bicycle Playing Card Stock.

Created as a pair of decks, Anubis and Osiris, these decks from artist Steve Minty was funded on KickStarter by 2,154 backers who pledged $93,907.  The Anubis deck featured a black tuck and card background, while the Osiris deck used a deep blue tone.  The tucks are with gold foil and embossed with a custom seal, while the cards also have gold foil on the back.  

From designer Qiudi Zhang, the Woodlands deck is a 100% custom deck of playing cards that perfectly captures the feeling of a stroll through the woods. The backs feature a deep green color with an owl-themed design. Two different custom jokers and a tree Ace of Spades round out the deck alongside custom-colored EPCC Standard faces. The entire deck has a natural, earthy full-bleed background color & texture and the deck is housed in a beautiful side-opening tuck box with a wrap-around tree branch design.

In the course of packing, we had come across a few Aurum decks that were not packaged at the factory as we had designed. On the standard Aurum deck, the gold metallic ad card is the last card in the deck and is what you can see through the custom diecut in the box. 

We've found a few decks (3), however, that are factory sealed and have the Aurum back design or the "blank face" card showing through the diecut window. 2 decks had the joker and 1 deck had the card back design. 

These are a rare collectible item.

Ono, an inhabitant of Mino (says an ancient Japanese legend of A.D. 545), spent the seasons longing for his ideal of female beauty. He met her one evening on a vast moor and married her. Simultaneously with the birth of their son, Ono’s dog was delivered of a pup which as it grew up became more and more hostile to the lady of the moors. She begged her husband to kill it, but he refused. At last one day the dog attacked her so furiously that she lost courage, resumed vulpine shape, leaped over a fence and fled. “You may be a fox”, Ono called after her, “but you are the mother of my son and I love you. Come back when you please; you will always be welcome”. So every evening she stole back and slept in his arms.

Excerpt from Come and Sleep by the monk Kyoukai, 9th century AD

Sumi Playing Cards – Kitsune is Card Experiment's 2nd collaboration with ToKMR Graphics following our highly successful

In Kitsune, we continue to translate and transform the traditional Japanese tattoo art form of Wabori into playing card style, retaining as well as enhancing many of the interesting and delightful features we had in Sumi Playing Cards. The focus of Kitsune centers around the fox spirit, a staple in Japanese folklore. We scoured many different sources of folktales, stories and myths about fox spirits and selected a few well-known ones as sources of inspiration for the characters in the court cards. Kistune continues to serve as a homage to Wabori and faithfully represents the visual nuances and quality that is the hallmark of Japanese traditional tattoo once again, creating a visual playing card masterpiece like no other, a masterpiece that weaves fantastical stories of begone time with modern playing card aesthetics.

Illustrated by ToK, Illustrator & Graphic designer based in Japan and edited by Card Experiment based in Hong Kong.

Fully custom pips & courts.

Cards printed by the United States Playing Card Company. Made in USA.

Craft Edition Tuck cases made of Premium Cotton Gmund Paper from Germany.

Letterpressed ink/metallic foiled tuck cases for Craft Edition produced and assembled in Hong Kong.

Multilevel Embossed tuck cases.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardexperiment/sumi-playing-cards-kitsune Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/315-sumi

TUCK CASE

• Premium Quality Soft-touch Paper Stock
• Red HOT FOIL STAMPING on both outside and inside of tuck box
• The Tuck case will have strategic 3D EMBOSSING

CARDS

• Printed by LEGENDS PLAYING CARD CO.
• Backs/Faces - Double-Sided Full Foil with printed CMYK Inks
• Size - Poker Size
• Paper Stock - Premium Casino Grade
• 54 Custom Illustrated Face Cards

TUCK CASE

• Premium Quality Soft Touch Paper Stock
• Red HOT FOIL STAMPING on tuck case
• The Tuck case will have strategic 3D EMBOSSING

CARDS

• Printed by LEGENDS PLAYING CARD CO.
• Backs/Faces - printed with CMYK Inks
• Size - Poker Size
• Finish - Classic Finish
• Paper Stock - Premium Casino Grade
• 54 Custom Illustrated Face Cards
• Red Gilding

King Star Cloud and Sea Series v1, 9-Tailed Fox (Black and Gray 2-Deck Set) Limited Edition, Numbered