Created and printed by Stockholm17 (Lorenzo Gaggiotti) and William Kalush (Expert Playing Card Company) exclusively for 52 Plus Joker. This limited edition deck is a fantastic representation of the world’s greatest playing card collector’s club. Fully customized. 1st print run of 999 numbered decks.

2nd print run of 500 unnumbered decks.

RAVN is back, in purple! A custom-designed deck of poker size playing cards designed by Stockholm17 for Caroline Ravn magician. They teamed up to deliver an elegant and classic looking deck of playing cards, with improved courts and standard faces. Perfect to perform magic tricks, cardistry, and of course to play at the green table.

The deck is printed by Cartamundi on a special paper stock with specific 9C² varnish designed for better handling and durability.

In 2016 Cartamundi manufactured a special deck that was presented at the Cardistry-Con, in Berlin. They focused on the paper and the varnish, not just the graphics. Cartamundi is providing this amazing paper stock and finish that is smooth and durable, specifically designed for cardists.

This deck features 56 cards:

• Cards where printed on Cambric 310gr Black Core paper with 9C² varnish.
• 52 standard faces with improved courts (JQK) and custom Ace of Spades.
• 2 custom jokers similar to the first version of Ravn, but with a twist.
• gaff card: duplicate card (7 of diamonds)
• gaff card: double backer
• The back-side design is the same as the previous version, but in purple.
• The look of the 12 court cards have been improved. The faces of the Jacks, Queens and Kings where improved, and their hands have been redrawn as well.

The design of the tuck-box is the same, so it matches the first version. Cartamundi provided Star-Dream Opal 285gr paper, and it has the embossed graphics.

ADD-ONs provided by the kickstarter campaign:

• Custom Roll-up Pad (Size: 17x12inch), with Ravn Purple Ace of Spades printed on a velvet top, handmade by JM Authentics in UK.
• Purple Ravn Mini-deck
• Uncut sheet

The Lunae deck features an teal colour with silver hot foil on the tuck and silver foil on the backs of the cards. During the Kickstarter campaign, there was an option to upgrade the Lunae deck to a teal gilding to match the colour of the deck

Includes: custom illustrated court cards, custom aces as islands, custom number cards, teal gilded edges, map portion on the background of all cards (for the puzzle)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/requiemcards/the-eye-of-the-ocean/description

The Solis deck features an Ocean Blue colour with gold hot foil on the tuck and gold foil on the backs of the cards. During the Kickstarter campaign, there was option to upgrade the Solis deck to a blue gilding to match the colour of the deck

Includes: custom illustrated court cards, custom aces as islands, custom number cards, blue gilding, map portion on the background of all cards (for the puzzle)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/requiemcards/the-eye-of-the-ocean/description

This is a limited version with tuck-box in 100% cotton paper 300gr, printed with letterpress in gold and silver ink. Numbered, signed, and handcrafted in Stockholm. Cards from Gemini Terra.

This is a fully custom deck of playing cards featuring:

illustrated court cards (JQK) illustrated jokers illustrated aces, depicted as axes custom pips, bold and big unconventional index (A♠, 2♠, 3♠, etc) one-way back design (for your card tricks) Casino Grade Paper Stock Durable Linen Classic Finish Coating

Scans can be seen at www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Gemini.html

Gemini is a deck of completely custom illustrated poker size playing cards. The deck will be printed by Expert Playing Card Co. (NY, USA) on casino grade paper stock with their Classic Finish coating. While the campaign is run from here in Stockholm and is in Swedish crowns (SEK), the rewards will be fulfilled from the US.The choice of the name Gemini is based on the peculiarity of the court cards (JQK). At first glance the figures of each card look perfectly symmetrical, but they are not. I depicted them as twins (Gemini in latin) but they are not identical, so you will see small differences when you look closely. I thought that the Gemini zodiac sign would fit this idea, so it gets a bit astrological in its design. The archetype of Gemini is fascinating and intriguing.

With this deck, I wanted a classical, medieval feeling. The aces are depicted as axes and the figures on the court cards interact with their own pip, which becomes part of the illustration. The pips (2 to 10) are big and they take a lot of space. I used an unconventional index, which is horizontal instead of vertical. I used a prototype for testing and found that it is very playable and easy to read, especially for Burraco.

Gemini was made available as 3 different decks:

Gemini Terra: sienna back, tuck-box with embossing, copper and gold foil on thick black paper.

Gemini Ignis: red back, tuck-box with embossing, red and gold foil on thick black paper.

Gemini Noctis (stretch goal added later in project): blue back, tuck-box with embossing, silver (or silver-aqua) foil, black foil on black paper, and foil on the back of the cards.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/requiemcards/gemini-playing-cards

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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 Noctis version of the Gran Riserva edition, Sulfur class (just X serialized decks made with this class seal). Each deck in each class for the Gran Riserva editions have a custom printed seal for each class, plus a wax seal and signed by the artist. Other classes available in the Gran Riserva edition were classes for Sulfur, Salt and Antimony (for both Lux and Noctis), each with different quantities made. These are the tuck and cards as the basic versions of Lux and Noctis, but with the added seals and signed. In addition, there was also the basic versions of both the Lux and Noctis decks, plus uncuts of each. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/requiemcards/heretic-playing-cards