2018 Deck Released at 2018 52 + Joker event in Cleveland, Ohio.

This deckis a sequel to the Origins Playing Cards decks, which were voted United Cardists Best Overall Deck of 2014.

The Shadows campaign features two new decks and a special hand crafted Black Label edition, inspired by rare 16th century originals. The goal for this campaign is again to produce premium quality decks.

The Shadows deck is a modern deck inspired by historic originals. It will be printed by the United States Playing Card Company. Rare art sheets which form the inspiration for these decks were sourced over months from respected archives including the British Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Archives Department of Seine-Maritime, and Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge.

Religion was a major theme in 16th century art and the Shadows deck is inspired by the story of Adam and Eve, and the choice between Innocentia (innocence) and Cognitio (the acquisition of knowledge). Which will you choose?

The Shadows of History Balck Label deck will feature: individually letterpressed in gold foil and hand assembled by myself. The deck will feature an ornate translucent inner wrapper and a unique ribbon pull. The deck will be signed and numbered with a metallic seal. The cards themselves will be from the Shadows deck with full colour face cards and metallic backs.

This Kickstarter exclusive editions feature the three versions of the Nouveau jewelry inspired decks: the Nouveau jewel (Bijou), the Nouveau gem (Gemme) and the Nouveau pearl (Perle).

Each version feature:

• Tuck is made of cotton cardstock, custom signed, numbered, debossed and 3d-embossed
• Tuck is hand-painted artwork using liquid gold (Bijou v.), silver (Perle v.) or copper (Gemme v.)
• The 54 Nouveau Bijoux, Perle or Gemmes cards (standard version) with gilded edges (gold, silver or copper)
• A custom re-stickable seal

Scans of each card can be seen at www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Perle.html

Extremely Rare with only 393 in Existence. Printed by the United States Playing Card Co., The Manifesto Gold Bicycle Edition is a Luxury deck of playing cards.

Crafted on a Casino Air-Cushion finish stock with an Epic Black Classic Linen tuck box, each Gold Edition was printed in an extremely limited run by the United States Playing Card Company which accentuates the significance of the collection.

• Numbered Limited Luxury GOLD Edition
• Printed by the United States Playing Card Company
• Premium Casino Quality Bee ® Card Stock Embossed Air Cushion Magic Finish
• Epic Black Classic Linen Tuck Box will Foiled & Embossed Design
• 52 Fully Custom Poker Cards, 2 Joker Cards, 2 Chart Cards (same inside cards across versions both gold and silver editions)
• Cellophane Wrapped

Full card scans available at: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/1340-animal_kingdom

"Pekelna Horugva” (Пекельна хоругва in Ukranian which means Hell banner or flag of Hell) is the second deck designed by Ukrainian illustrator Vladislav Erko, manufactured by Nage Cards, Saint-Petersburg, 2012. Vladislav Erko is noted for his beautiful artwork in children’s fairy tale books, as well as his earlier deck for “Taras Bulba” the Moscow restaurant which serves traditional national cuisine. In this second deck, which also contains some culinary references, the imagery has turned rather grim and appears to be based on the mystical works of Nikolai Gogol expressing ethnic and nationalist themes, including death.

This entry is for the reprint of the original deck that have a modified tuck, standard bridge size with a new simpler back (from the artist's Alice in Wonderland work for some strange reason) and uses basic plastic coated paper stock compared to the original which were a larger size (2.767" X 4.130") and features the original card back and thumb slot tuck.  The manufacturer was originally Nage Cards (http://www.nage-cards.ru/), but it can not be confirmed who printed this reprint.  Likewise, the reprint states the year 2012, but it is assumed the actual print date was later, perhaps as late as 2015.

http://www.wopc.co.uk/russia/pekelna-horugva.html

http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13217/d13217.htm

The second version of Mike Willcox's skeleton deck contains different coloured backs and a new joker.