When Vanishing Inc. first released the "Dead Man's Deck", it almost immediately became one of their fastest-selling decks of cards ever. Beyond its stunning design, this deck had one of the most unique features ever integrated into a custom deck of cards. Inspired by the story of Wild Bill Hickock, who was shot dead during a poker game in the late 1800's, the "Dead Man's Deck" came with a replica musket ball piercing right through the center of the cards. While this unusual oddity was beloved by collectors, it also made the cards fairly impractical for magicians and, ironically, poker players.

After receiving countless requests for a "hole-less version", Vanishing Inc. is thrilled to introduce the "Dead Man's Deck: Unharmed Edition". With the exception of not including a bullet hole, every aspect of this amazing deck of cards has been beautifully customized in the same way as the original. It has been carefully aged to resemble the playing cards used during the era of Wild Bill Hickock. The "Dead Man's Hand" (Aces over Eights) that Wild Bill was rumored to be holding at the time of his death has also been splattered with blood to commemorate this fateful day.

Manufactured by Cartamundi on premium Slimline B9 stock, the "Dead Man's Deck: Unharmed Edition" is now the perfect way to infuse a touch of history into any gambling routine or liven up your favorite card trick or cardistry flourish.

Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/764-the_dead_man_s_deck_unharmed_edition

Gilded version

1ST Playing Cards Holo edition by USPCC.

1ST Playing Cards Holo edition by USPCC.

Somewhere in the not too distant future, Chris Ramsay sent a distress beacon from the Hadrian Base Station. This is where YOU come in! Can you help Chris track down and eliminate the A.C.E clones?

Some think it's best to be 1ST... We think it's better to be 2ND TO NONE

Forbidden Forest captures South Asia's most imaginative mythological creatures in an eccentric set of luxury playing cards. From a horse-headed demon to rivaling monkeys, we have reinterpreted twelve fantastic animals to breathe new life into ancient tales.

The playing card symbol indicates the creature's habitat (♦️ the jungle, ♣️ sea, ♠️ grasslands, and ♥️ sky)- these environments are beautifully illustrated on each ace.

Each creature is a window into how our ancestors interpreted the world - representing their fears and uncertainties and captures their morals and hopes. We want to open questions and create opportunities to exchange stories across generations and cultures. This is our way of share a deeper aspect of our culture with you, focusing not on what divides us but what connects us all.

• Luxury finish: MetalLuxe foil card backs inspired by antique marbled endpapers
• Embossed brass foil tuck box featuring intricate bronze foil illustrations
• Custom-designed Pips, Numbers, and award-winning illustrations by Humble Raja
• 52-card poker sized deck + two book-inspired bonus cards
• Bicycle grade with 'air cushion finish' expertly printed by the USPCC
• Printed with vegetable-based inks on paper from sustainable forests
• Made in the United States; hand-assembled, and distributed by Art of Play

The Notorious gambling frog is a standard deck with redesigned standard court cards. It is designed to look classic with a touch of art nouveau style on the back design. The deck features high readability with its 4-corner-index, which is great for playing card games and for card tricks.

Specs:

1ST Playing Cards Holo edition by USPCC.

The design is minimalist and elegant, with WH Decks logo in the center. The borders are thin and doubled, which provides a nice effect when doing fans that get stripped — black and white.

The faces of the cards are all personalized and enigmatic.

The Court cards are also personalized. Some of then have the drawings of the first deck, and others are standard, but all of them are designed with small details that make the deck even more interesting.

The cards will come in an order — the cyclical and mathematical order created by the magician Si Stebbins in 1898 — allowing you to discover the exact position of each card in the deck.

Featuring the incredible, unique, Optical Marking system, the new DMC ELITES: ROUGE Marked Deck is the fifth signature deck produced by Sovereign Playing Cards for elite British magician Drummond Money-Coutts. Each deck has been a collaboration between DMC (star of TV special Card Shark and 2015's Nat Geo series DMC Beyond Magic) and designer Phill Smith, combining their perfectionism and creativity to create a unique series of incredible decks. With a brace of serious improvements and upgrades on previous versions, the DMC ELITES: ROUGE Marked Deck is, quite simply, the best deck Sovereign has ever produced.

The deck features the fourth generation of the unique Optical Marking system, a powerful marking system designed specifically for the use of close-up and cabaret performers (as opposed to the gambling origin of many systems). The deck has an ingeniously hidden marking mechanic that is readable at great range, in poor light and with extreme speed. The system has been significantly refined over the last few years of development since it was first created. Each deck also now comes with a pictorial instruction card that explains the markings visually, without words.

The system hides the value and suit of the playing card in plain sight, with no decoding necessary, no mental working-out to do - it literally just says the value and the suit, clearly and visibly, with a huge visible range on it. All this incredible clarity and you can still comfortably hand the deck to a layman safe in the knowledge that even if they search for marks, they will still not find them. The DMC ELITES: ROUGE is the only deck on the market now with this unique system.

The deck has standard faces, and the finish is a completely new cardistry-grade stock and finish. Everything about the deck has been crafted to make it super useable, from the sturdy minimalist box, down to the deep red back color, to the card reveal hidden on the two custom Jokers. The DMC ELITES: ROUGE - the greatest marked deck in a generation and possibly the most useable deck for card magic available today.

These cards have been created with professional magic and mentalism performers in mind, but they could be put to work to gain an illicit advantage at the card table. If you want to crush your friends at snap, that's fine, have fun, but cheating at games where there is a gambled stake is unethical, immoral, and illegal. If you are caught, then you may be subject to prosecution by the law or violent reprisal from your marks. The technical skills required to cheat at the card table are fascinating to study, but Sovereign Playing Cards cannot be held responsible for any cheating that may be conducted using their equipment.

The cards are official poker deck size on 300g grey core card paper, glossy finish, spot foil, and packaged in a lovingly illustrated deck box with each face card, Ace, and Joker a lavishly illustrated work of art.

The cards are illustrated with portraits of the Thornclaw Monster Family, a very old and venerable extended family of fairies, demons, Lovecraftian horrors, cryptids, and things from beyond.

All of the portraits are treated with unique silver foil for each creature. You will love playing card games with the family.

2018 Release

Full deck scan here: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/88-culturae_animalis

I am pleased to introduce my latest project - Culturae Animalis.

Culturae Animalis (the cultural animal/animal culture) is a deck of highly detailed, hand-drawn, luxury art playing cards. It is a deck of stunning art playing cards with a beautiful message of cultural respect and environmental and animal protection. The illustration work alone took over six months, with every card, including pip cards, having its own unique design, and each set of suit court cards being one continuous panoramic scene.

Most of my written and illustrated work revolves around themes of nature, wildlife and identity, and this project is no different. Each suit depicts one animal type and one culture.

The Features:

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackbrutuspenny/culturae-animalis-art-playing-cards

This deck was originally a KickStarter project which was cancelled with the intent to print with Legends Playing Card Company and later funded directly by Gambler's Warehouse and actually printed by Liberty Playing Card Company.  Perhaps as a result, some early decks incorrectly listed the printer as Legends, but it seems most correctly had them listed as Liberty.

Publisher's Description:

To deal a deck dandy To play a card cruel Gaslight macabre— Caressed by Cthulhu Welcome to the Strange Head Society, where the intrigue of classical science-fiction blazes the boilers of grim steampunk style—or shall we say deportment? While all manner of science and theory are discussed at Strange Head convocations, no gathering would be complete without a high-stakes game of cards, be it Euchre, Poker, Cribbage, or Hearts. To commemorate this deep tradition, cardist and Strange Head senior-fellow Egor Zoidberg (Egor Klyuchnyk) brings us Strange Head Playing Cards. This beautiful, standard-play deck portrays its royalty not as human figureheads, but as ideas central to the Strange Head Society: cosmology, mortality, and tentacles—lots of tentacles! Strange Head Playing Cards make the perfect gift for any fan of contemporary steampunk comics and anime, or of “proto-steam” literature by authors such as Wells, Lovecraft, and Poe.

Each of the suits represents a different caste of society. The hearts are the clergy, diamonds - merchants, clubs - military, and spades - the working class. That concept is carried over substituting artisans for working class, giving the deck the significance of a "dark zodiac" of sorts. Each of the assets were hand illustrated and then digitally compiled to give it a more traditional feel. The deck reads like a 54-page occult manuscript steeped in otherworldly dark aesthetics.

With an intense focus on Gothic surrealism. The glyphs or "letters" that was used in the designs are stylized "demonic calligraphy", a unique phonetic alphabet - to add character and subtext to the art. The cross symbol is one of Noah’s own design that he often adds to the art as a hidden "second signature" called "the infernal cross". Both decks feature accents of artwork made by applying of metallic silver and golden inks.

The EBON deck is signified by stark shades of ashen grey, giving the figures the look of hewn slate, with silver metallic ink accents and a unique ace of spades.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/891191024/bone-and-ebon-playing-cards-by-noah-whippie-and-no