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ARK, with its leading-edge traditional Chinese ink painting and innovative card box design, brings forth this richly mythical book and its stories once again to the world.

In the design of ShanHai, traditional Chinese ink painting techniques were employed, resulting in over 100 large-scale hand-drawn illustrations. Even though they may appear as tiny details on the playing cards.

The cards draw inspiration from the "Shan Hai Jing," with the theme centered around the Queen Mother . This shifts the focus to the Kunlun Mountains in the west, painted using traditional Chinese landscape ink painting techniques.

Part of the Artist Box Set. Limited to 999 with unique serial numbers. Includes a Classic HOLO Deck with ARK CASE, a Special Deck (Standard Tuck), and a Gift-Box with Folding Album.

CLASSIC HOLO

• Based on the 'Shan Hai Jing'
• Chinese ink painting style
• Four-panel folding screen case
• Clever card back design.
• Dazzling HOLO foil

ARK CASE

• Four-panel folding screen case
• Shan Hai adopts a new double-layer case design
• The inner four-panel folding screen design organizes the cards by suit, placing them in four separate compartments.
• When the cards are taken out, the folding screen unfolds to reveal four divine birds on one side and the Queen Mother on the other.

BACK DESIGN

• Dynamic effect
• In the bronze mirror, the image of the leopard is depicted as a yin-yang fish.
• When the cards are fanned out, the same image as the folding screen is hidden within the 56 cards.

From our sister brand, Tally-Ho Flower displays the shapes and colors of the beautiful butterfly flower. Red, blue and purple set across a black background display the strikingly pattern found in nature.

From our sister brand, Tally-Ho Butterfly displays the shapes and colors of the beautiful butterfly flower. Red, blue and purple set across a black background display the strikingly pattern found in nature.

The DFWW Edition is a charity deck. 50% of the profits will go to the Malala Fund and the other 50% will go to the Global Fund For Women. All hearts and diamonds along with any other red areas of the court cards are now dusty pink. This deck also features a broken border design with a pink haired woman in retro pop art fashion. The ad cards include one bio for the Malala Fund, one for the Global Fund For Women, and the other two cards when put together make a single jumbo 8 of spades. A fun visual oddity or gaff cards? You decide! Since these cards are for charity, they will not be found in any other card store unless they purchased them directly from us at retail price. Will never be reprinted again.

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Yosegi playing cards were designed and produced by Art of Play and were first introduced through their Mystery Deck 2023 event. The card design was inspired by yosegi, the classic Japanese art of pattern making. Yosegi is best known for its wooden boxes (for jewelry, puzzles, etc.) that use different types of wood to create beautiful and intricate designs. Art of Play has taken these classic designs and turned them into the borderless back of this deck. The faces have a beige background that gives the cards a vintage feel.

This deck was created in collaboration with the stunning paintings of Isaac LeFever of the beautiful Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio. The deck features a dark green embossed tuck with both gold and orange foiling. The court cards feature paintings of various beautiful spots in Hocking Hills State Park during different seasons. The Hocking Hills Logo and badge design was created by Nick Johnson.

Cyberpunk Mythos is a collection of six playing cards inspired and celebrates East Asian mythologies and the cyberpunk subculture. The series featuring the exclusive drawings of 30 mythical beings and environments as described in "Shan Hai Jing" (a compilation of Chinese mythic geography and creatures). The beasts are imagines as cyborgs that escaped their cages from labs, prowling neon-drenched streets or watching pensively atop unreachable skyscrapers. They are illustrated for the back design, courts, and/or the diptych jokers. All of the Aces featured customized enlarged items shaped as the suits, with the Numbers using miniaturized version of them. All of the decks are printed by KingStar Playing Cards Co. (KSPCC) on 280 gsm Japanese black core paper. Two of the decks are standalones, while the remaining four decks are only available in a collector's box set - which includes an enamel pin, a sticker pad, three postcards, and three bookmarks. SANZU JINWU comes in red and blue editions. The card's back design depicts the legendary sunbird being trapped in lab equipemtn before it escapes. The cards are printed with air cushion finish with 4-color spot coloring. The box is using premium matte stock with soft touch lamination. The Red edition features cards gilded with red glitter holographic foil.

Crack open a frosty bottle of suds to break the ice, cause with CRAFT BEER we’ve brewed up an equally intricate chord of harmonizing flavors to please any palette. Foamy white, hop green, and liquid gold foils embellish the case from top to bottom, side to side, in a flourish of artisanal finery. With a little extra lettuce, you can top off your order by adding gilded edges to both the BURGER and the CRAFT BEER decks. It’s a perfect match to the foil-dripping tucks and one that you won’t want to miss, as supplies are extremely limited to 150 decks each! Remember that #1 rule of beer and that first bite of a burger: If you’re gonna have one, you’d better have more

The DELUXA number and face cards are both designed in a classic two-way layout with index in all four corners for optimized playability. The court cards are drawn by hand in collaboration with professional illustrator Martin Helgren and feature many iconic artists of historic circus archetypes.

Deco deck by Paul Carpenter. The cards are just regular decks, but they have the deal and hand-written number - limited to 100

The Meadowlark Luxe is a combination of the standard tuck box with the Luxury (cold foil) cards and a Deluxe Edition seal.

The signature gilded addition deck is one of two decks included in the two deck box set. Both decks are hand numbered x/200 and signed by Pierce Brown, the author of Red Rising. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/randybutterfield/red-rising-playing-cards/description Based on the Red Rising books by Pierce Brown The Tuck Box for the Red Rising Deck is an inverse of the original Red Rising book cover. Black wings are featured over the red textured background. The top, right and bottom panels are designed to look like the edges of a book. The left panel is the book’s spine. When assemble together, the Red Rising Tuck Box will look like a mini version of a book. The Back Card for the Red Rising Deck features the black wings from the Tuck Box, and also utilizes a combination of the Gold, Red and House Mars sigils. The Tuck Box will be printed on a premium paper stock. The Exterior will be printed with 4-Color Process + Silver FOIL. The Interior pattern design will be printed in 4-Color Process.

The signature gilded edition deck is one of two decks included in the two deck box set. Both decks are hand numbered x/200 and signed by Pierce Brown, the author of Red Rising. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/randybutterfield/red-rising-playing-cards/description Based on the Red Rising books by Pierce Brown The Tuck Box and Back Card for the House Mars Deck prominently features the House Mars sigil. It has rough texture imagery within the wolf head and is set off nicely with the contrast of the black rock texture background. Scattered throughout the Tuck Box and Back Card are elements of gold leaf designs. They symbolize an Iron Rain. The Tuck Box will be printed on a premium paper stock. The Exterior will be printed with 4-Color Process + Silver FOIL + Clear UV Spot Ink on the House Mars and Red sigils. The Interior will be flood-coated in PANTONE Black and the pattern will be stamped in Red FOIL. It will be extremely luxurious.

Good Pals Halloween Tales is the second release in the Good Pals Brand, created by The Card Inn. We absolutely love this fully custom deck, with some fascinating characters in our 12 court cards (+ an extra queen of spades design) as well as the custom aces and number cards that keep a spooky halloween theme.

This deck was created in collaboration with the stunning paintings of Isaac LeFever of the beautiful Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio. The deck features a dark green embossed tuck with both gold and orange foiling. The court cards feature paintings of various beautiful spots in Hocking Hills State Park during different seasons. The Hocking Hills Logo and badge design was created by Nick Johnson. https://kingswildproject.com/products/hocking-hills-std