Inspired by the intensely curious works of Escher, this deck was meticulously designed and illustrated to create a reality-bending deck in the most sincerest form. Good illusions blur the lines between dual designs, trying to persuade you to see something not quite there. But great illusions solidify those lines to transform these designs into unmistakably new perspectives. Large windows blend the boundaries between cards and box. Each deck in this year’s collection contains a singular perspective that controls the “reality” of the designs inside it, creating a stunningly visual change to the actual cards themselves. Will you be of the King’s persuasion and see his crown ? Or will your deck be captured by the Queen revealing a completely DIFFERENT set of pieces in tow? Bring home the world’s first dual perspective changing deck and keep a piece of playing card history for your shelf. This deck truly takes the genre to a whole new level. A quick video shows the utterly stunning visual change side by side between one “reality” and another to truly appreciate the amazing results these small perspective boxes can do.

Deck The Halls originally released in 2018 taking inspiration from those horrifically ugly sweaters your dad wore to Christmas parties and bragged about. The knitted texture design around the tuck case is 100% real and literally woven into the tuck case. With a new color scheme that includes gold thread in the exterior fabric design and gold foil on the card backs, the new Deck The Halls is of the utmost ugly sweater deliciousness, inside and out.

This deck was manufactured by the Expert Playing Card Company in the PRC. Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/812-deck_the_hall

The House of the Rising Spade is a place built for your imagination: an esoteric realm full of mysteries built for cartomancers, cardists, magicians, collectors, dreamers, and card enthusiasts. Cartomancer has a tarot feeling. The aces have a magick sigil, the borders of the 54 faces are in gold. The Gatekeeper variant is a limited edition that will have the same cards as Cartomancer, its own tuckbox, a commemorative card with number and signature, and a miniature of the gate in painted resin. Through the cutout on the tuck-box you can see the gate, and through the opening of the gate can you see the number.

The Requiem also tied for winning the Best Pips award from UnitedCardists 2014 Deck of the Year http://unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6448

for scans of each card see

http://www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Requiem.html

Designed by Lorenzo Gaggiotti, The House of the Rising Spade is a place built for imagination; an esoteric realm full of mysteries built for cartomancers, cardists, magicians, collectors, dreamers, and card enthusiasts. Cartomancer has a tarot feeling. The aces have a magick sigil, the borders of the 54 faces are in gold. Cartomancer was printed by Cartamundi with B9 true linen finish and cold-foil on both sides of the cards. Full-bleed black back design and gold cold-foiled graphic elements.

View all cards here: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/73-house_of_the_rising_spade_cartomancer

Designed by Lorenzo Gaggiotti, The House of the Rising Spade is a place built for imagination; an esoteric realm full of mysteries built for cartomancers, cardists, magicians, collectors, dreamers, and card enthusiasts. The tuck box was produced by Oath Playing Cards. The Faro variant gets closer to old poker decks from 1800's. No index at all, one-way design for all the cards. Play cards as they used to do in 1800's with a modern and esoteric touch. The deck was printed by the USPCC. The Faro variant features gold metallic ink on the back design, and a few graphic elements of the faces.

Heretic Playing Cards by Lorenzo Gaggiotti (Stockholm17) is based on alchemy and the hermetic world. Salt (for the Jacks), Sulfur (for the Queens) and Mercury (for the Kings) are the three basic ingredients of the alchemist. This PCDB entry is for the basic Noctis version of the deck, there also was a Lux version and uncuts of each. In addition, there was a VERY limited subset of both Lux and Noctis that were signed and wax sealed called Heretic Gran Riserva. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/requiemcards/heretic-playing-cards

Scan of every card:

www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Chatrouge.html

The Requiem also tied for winning the Best Pips award from UnitedCardists 2014 Deck of the Year http://unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6448

Cartamundi overproduced the Ravn Sol run of decks and there weren't enough tuck boxes for the overrun. Instead of trashing the decks Lorenzo Gaggiotti and Caroline Ravn tested a tuck with white foil on a deep yellow paper. There were 231 of the overruns, therefore the 231 sticker on the tuck.

N.17 deck V.01 was made for the official launch of the crowd funding website Cardlauncher.com and was printed by MPC (Make Playing Cards). It was designed by Lorenzo Gaggiotti through his Stockholm17 company. 530 total were printed, 505 available as prizes and promo items from CardLauncher and 25 reserved for Private Reserve from creator. The deck was printed by MPC (Make Playing Cards) with a linen finish. It was a near prototype deck, but with a larger printing and distribution as it was always intended for revisions and a full crowd funded release. That new version was a Bicycle branded deck which launched on Kickstarter on Feb 17 and funded on March 19, 2015.

This deck is the Gilded Edition of October's Kings Wild Shorts Deck...and of course the theme is Halloween Trick or Treating! The Gilded Edition deck features the same cards as the Standard Edition Kings Wild Shorts deck.

Each Gilded Edition comes in a uniquely designed tuck case. The Standard Edition is individually numbered 200 Limited Edition are produced each month.

This deck was funded through a Kickstarter campaign. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingswildproject/kings-wild-tigers-playing-cards

The Limited Edition deck comes in a matchbox style box with a plain white tuckbox inside it. The card with the matches on it is meant to be placed so it will be visible when you slide open the matchbox. The box even has a rough 'striker' area on the side just like an actual matchbox.

This deck was funded through a Kickstarter campaign https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingswildproject/kings-wild-tigers-playing-cards Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/23-tigers

Vol. 5 Gilded Edition of the Kings Wild Table Players Series

Inspired by vintage tobacco industry packaging, the Volume 5 Table Players edition, also known as "Slims", is the fifth deck in a six-deck series. The No.13 Slims feature a classic look with well thought out designs and colors. Each Table Players deck features the beautiful Kings Wild Standard Court Cards for easy table play.

The Vol. 5 cards are printed by The United States Playing Card Company in the United States of America. The cards are printed on Classic Bicycle Stock with a silky smooth air-cushioned finish.

In 1969, mankind stepped foot on the moon for the first time. To commemorate that, we will be naming our space-themed deck “1969”.

Features of the 1969 include:

Stylish illustration for the Space Enthusiasts & card collectors

Stylish Back fanning design, great for flourishing

Hall of Fame Card to show recognition to our first 50 backers

Printed by Cartamundi (We will be printing our decks with Cartamundi TRUE LINEN B9 FINISH with SlimLine paper stock.)

Highly Collectable tuck box

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chiyindesign/1969-space-themed-playing-card-printed-by-cartamundi