Portfolio52 proudly presents a series of custom poker size decks of playing cards designed with a touch of oddity by Stockholm17. The Odd Fellows are a care-free crew, unbothered by the norms of "functioning members of society". Come aboard and meet a couple of supremely odd characters, each with their own blend of cards and art packaged in personality that's almost too much for your eyes to handle. This project is the first official P52-branded project created as an ode to our love of playing cards. Join our crew in a celebration of the odd and reckless.

El Sapo Cubano features pearlescent bronze and lime green and white foiling across the barrel embossed case. 17 marks scratch across the top signifying the date of the launch and the number of Stockholm17. On the face of the deck is El Sapo himself with a custom diecut around his mouth to show the display card below with the edition # of the deck out of 888. This display card is a custom letterpressed card that is also signed by the artist.

El Sapo Cubano was a limited edition deck run out of 888 launched as a special release in the last 48 hours of the 2021 P52 campaign.

The custom illustrated court cards feature a wildly intoxicated bunch with custom illustrations for each individual pip. The back designs are also 100% custom to each deck in the Odd Fellows series while still maintaining a cohesive design to maintain integrity throughout.

Fantasma is a series of poker playing cards designed by Thirdway Industries, inspired by Ghosts. This project is experimental, and marks the first deck by Thirdway Industries to be printed almost entirely with invisible ink. The court cards are fully custom, intricate and invisible under normal light. Only a blacklight reveals the design! The indexes are printed with Neon Ink, which is visible in normal light but fluoresces under blacklight, becoming more vibrant.

Fantasma Duplex is a limited edition (KS exclusive) printed by WJPC with two different colors of invisible ink. Fantasma Duplex also features azure foil on card backs and azure gilding.

IMPORTANT: Fantasma Duplex is compatible only with a 365nm flashlight

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Found here: Fantasma Basic

Fantasma Basic is the leftover, original deck that was used by Gambler’s Warehouse to assemble Tomb and Spirit. It’s not an official Fantasma item, consider it a sort of a prototype/production item.

• Almost all white… but printed with invisible ink and neon ink!
• Courts, pips, jokers printed with invisible ink (revealed with a blacklight)
• Index printed with neon ink (visible in normal condition and fluorescent under blacklight)
• Fantasma cards are printed by USPCC
• Same deck included into Spirit Sleeve, but cellowrapped on its own

View all cards here: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/255-bicycle_aurora

Aurora" is Dawn....in Latin, that's where this idea came from. The Gold color (courts) representing sunrise...and Silver (numbers) representing sunset (nightfall). The center of the back of the card is the Sun.

Feast your eyes on The Aurora deck created with a gold foil embossed tuck case and each card printed with metallic inks. The Aurora is a great display piece for any card collection. Art work by Johnny Whaam and printed by USPCC.

All court card are fitted in gold, while the numbered cards are fitted in silver. This combination gives this deck a unique appeal that no other deck has ever done.

Features

• Printed by USPCC
• Bicycle Branded
• Embossed Tuck Case with Gold Foils
• Metallic inks on card faces
• Custom Stamp Seal
• Air-Cushion Finish
• 100% hand drawn artwork and custom pips

Photos and description are courtesy of Matt Hessler.

Genuine Bicycle Playing Cards This deck follows the legendary 130 year old Bicycle tradition, while enhancing both the look and the feel. Each poker size card features a full color variation of the standard Bicycle faces.

Improved Playability Standard size black indexes with four differently colored suit markers; green clubs, yellow diamonds, red hearts and blue spades. Easily recognizable suits help to speed up the play time of any game by visually separating them with only a glance. Perfect for Texas Hold'em, Rummy, Hearts, Spades, and any game that traditionally uses multi colored decks such as Bridge no-revoke, Italian Machiavelli, and German Skat.

High Durability Made with the highest quality casino grade (Bee) paper and finish available from the United States Playing Card Company. These cards are meant to outlast every other low cost deck.

Bonus Cards 56 cards including a special "Black Maria" card and the rules for playing the game of Hearts.

Originally labeled as #9, Autobike is one of the most controversial decks in USPC history.  It has been documented that this deck was introduced in 1906 and discontinued in 1913, but no seriouos card collector has ever seen an original version of this back design in person.  Because of this, all seem to unversially agree this card back never actually went into production.

Released exclusively through Target.