A true achievement in modern era of playing cards. Lotrek pushed the envelope one more time, after ICONS and Liturgy, comes now Golden OATH the first deck ever to be printed only with foil.

The deck features a very beautiful and intricate back design and Lotrek's masterful take on standard courts, all of this enclosed in a beautiful tuck case with embossing and gold foil.

Printed together with GOLDEN OATH, this was a 50 deck print that was done on blue pearlescent stock with silver and gold foil on the back design. Comes in a Carat case, numbered and signed. Product Page: https://www.oathplayingcards.com/product-page/blue-oath

The 2019 52 Plus Joker Club deck was introduced at the 52 Plus Joker Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina by designer Lotrek of Oath Playing Cards. Lotrek's decks have always been the hallmark of custom playing cards in the collector's arena since he and his workshop in Greece always push for innovations in card designing and printing. He has created several high-end decks such as Arabesque, Silk, Fable, Icons, Damask, Ambassador, Sanctus, Liturgy, etc. This year's club deck features his elaborate design with his iconic foiling paired with the techniques of Expert Playing Card Company, resulting in a marvelous combination of intricate craft and luxury. "The Entertainer" 2019 club deck is cold foil (Sage Green) + hot foil stamped (Gold) on the back design, and cold foil on the faces with rich coloring. This is by far the highest sought after edition in the 52 Plus Joker annual club deck lineup.

Funded as a Kickstarter project on February 22, 2014 with $69,452 NZD (just over $50k USD) pledged from 1,109 backers, this was a set of two decks consisting of the First Edition (standard blue tuck unlimited deck) and Grail (white tuck limited edition of 2,500 decks), plus 20 very limited commemorative sets in wooden boxes and an uncut version. Both tucks were embossed and hot stamped with gold foil with a custom seal and featured the intricately designed card back image on the back of the tuck.

A number of additional add-ons including shirts, prints, collector box, coin, poster, etc were also available.

Designed by Rick Davidson of New Zealand, this deck featured a re-interpretation of the original 15th century face cards from Rouen, France that was the basis for the current standard courts now used on so many common playing card decks. Rick carefully studied many historic cards and prints from this time period (http://originscards.com/archive/) to create his new interpretations, but also occasionally brought in modern day inspirations for facial features, including Charlize Theron for the Queen of Clubs.

The cards were printed on casino quality Bee stock with a magic finish from USPCC with special Q1 quality production. In addition, magician Lee Asher, helped design the gaff card included with the deck that featured the King of Spades and Queen of Hearts. This PCDB Entry is for the Grail Edition which was limited to a maximum of 2,500 decks and in the Pearlesque Natural Pearl colored tuck. The Grail cards feature a subtly different silver accented metallic color scheme to the First Edition.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rickdavidson/origins-playing-cards-inspired-by-history

The Origins decks also won 7 out of 17 categories from UnitedCardists 2014 Deck of the Year awards as voted by 59 members: Best Back Design, Best Court Cards, Best Gaff Card, Best Tuck Box, Best Coin, Overall Best Deck of 2014 http://unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6448

Funded as a Kickstarter project on February 22, 2014 with $69,452 NZD (just over $50k USD) pledged from 1,109 backers, this was a set of two decks consisting of the First Edition (standard blue tuck unlimited deck) and Grail (white tuck limited edition of 2,500 decks), plus 20 very limited commemorative sets in wooden boxes and an uncut version. Both tucks were embossed and hot stamped with gold foil with a custom seal and featured the intricately designed card back image on the back of the tuck.

A number of additional add-ons including shirts, prints, collector box, coin, poster, etc were also available.

Designed by Rick Davidson of New Zealand, this deck featured a re-interpretation of the original 15th century face cards from Rouen, France that was the basis for the current standard courts now used on so many common playing card decks. Rick carefully studied many historic cards and prints from this time period (http://originscards.com/archive/) to create his new interpretations, but also occasionally brought in modern day inspirations for facial features, including Charlize Theron for the Queen of Clubs.

The cards were printed on casino quality Bee stock with a magic finish from USPCC with special Q1 quality production. In addition, magician Lee Asher, helped design the gaff card included with the deck that featured the King of Spades and Queen of Hearts.

This PCDB Entry is for the First Edition which was not limited and in the Soft Touch Midnight Blue colored tuck.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rickdavidson/origins-playing-cards-inspired-by-history

The Origins decks also won 7 out of 17 categories from UnitedCardists 2014 Deck of the Year awards as voted by 59 members: Best Back Design, Best Court Cards, Best Gaff Card, Best Tuck Box, Best Coin, Overall Best Deck of 2014 http://unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6448

Kickstarter project funded on July 25, 2013 with 2,705 backers that pledged $188,005.

Only 90 of these decks are publicly available. The luxurious pearlescent paper shimmers both white and gold depending on the light and features incredibly intricate gold foiling, metallic inks and embossing. In addition, for the first time ever in playing cards, the tuck box has an intricate reveal cut by laser that is designed to mirror the design elements of Aurum. Every card is intricately designed and features multiple metallic inks and was also carefully crafted to be "purposefully imperfect."

This is the rarest edition of Aurum, and possibly the most intricate and rare deck produced by USPCC to date.

Each deck features a custom holographic seal with an individual number. The Laser Cut decks is hand numbered 1-90.

Scans of each image can be seen at www.marytcusack.com/maryc/Cards/WickedKingdom.html

Wicked Kingdom is an art-rich 54-card poker deck, featuring dual-identity face cards with a narrative twist and obsessively detailed, hand-painted artwork throughout that features a dark fantasy world populated by a cast of strange and complex characters www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyliebeckert/wicked-kingdom-illustrated-playing-cards-by-wylie www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyliebeckert/wicked-kingdom-illustrated-playing-cards-by-wylie

Designed by Alex Chin (Seasons Playing Cards), it tells of the process of Pulpwood (papermaking) and features a bark textured tuck, dual layered box, and dual layered foiled cards. The back design is designed after landscape architecture of a mulberry tree with the tree tops in the center, the grass around it and the roots below.

A true collector's item with gold and silver foil on the back of all cards, printed on black/bronze metallic stock. Only 130 "Treasure" decks were printed and the rarity of the stock along with the beauty of the two perfectly registered foils justify the name!

Features:

• 54 cards - Poker size
• Printed on two-color (black/bronze) metallic stock
• Gold and Silver foil on the back of each card
• Tuck case made of a very dark, light absorbing stock. Gold and Silver foil with debossing.
• Hand numbered and signed on the bottom of the tuck
• Strictly limited edition of 130 decks

National Playing Card Collection Day was created to help spread awareness of our art to the world. It accompanied the launch of Portfolio52, the world's largest online playing card database. The free service offers an easier way for collectors to discover and manage their personal collections. A limited edition deck of 400 was crafted by Alexander Chin to commemorate this holiday.

MADE BY HAND

The PCCD Deck is the most labor intensive deck ever produced by Seasons. Each deck is run by hand through offset, letterpressed on premium cotton paper, hot foil stamped in gold, diecut, folded, glued, and then sealed with an individually numbered seal of authenticity. Organic black forms a column that drips into the diamond emblem featuring the inauguration.

National Playing Card Collection Day was created to help spread awareness of our art to the world. It accompanied the launch of Portfolio52, the world's largest online playing card database. The free service offers an easier way for collectors to discover and manage their personal collections. A limited edition deck of 400 was crafted by Alexander Chin to commemorate this holiday.

MADE BY HAND

The NPCCD Deck is the most labor intensive deck ever produced by Seasons. Each deck is run by hand through offset, letterpressed on premium cotton paper, hot foil stamped in gold, diecut, folded, glued, and then sealed with an individually numbered seal of authenticity. Organic black forms a column that drips into the diamond emblem featuring the inauguration.

The darker companion to our original Oracle decks, Oracle Shadow Edition is an extremely limited run of 666 decks printed by USPCC. The tuck cases feature black foil on black stock, embossing, red foil on the inside, and an easily removable specially designed DoP seal.

Scans of each cards can be seen at www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Oracle.html

based on talking boards and the Spiritualism movement, these playing cards are unparalleled in finish and art. Employing an engraved style and featuring foil finishes and embossing, Oracle Playing cards were printed by the United States Playing Card Company.

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

scans of each cards can be seen at

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

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 Lux version of the deck, there also was a Noctis 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

Empire is a limited edition, bold, commanding, obsessively intricate and empowering design with the finest finishing, to be printed by United States Playing Cards Company for unrivalled quality. It's a deck that represent what it means to stand up and fight for what's important to you, your dreams. To follow them no matter how challenging and strive to make your own dent in this world. 

Secret Design Features

• The sharp-eyed magicians and hustlers among you may notice that because both the back design and faces have that centre edging detail, having any reversed cards in the deck is no problem. They'll still be very difficult to identify at a glance, should you need to ;)
• The edge detail also holds an incredibly subtle one-way feature that a trained eye will have at their disposal.
• The mischievous Jokers can also be used as a creative revealing tool for magicians.
• Empire will also come with a utility card ('DB') useful for card magic or even as a cut card for poker, bridge or any other games.

These built-in features do not have any impact on the normal functionality of the deck for use in any kind of game play and merriment you desire.

The Empire deck also won 3 out of 18 categories from UnitedCardists 2013 Deck of the Year awards: Best Back Design, Best Pips, Best Deck for Fanning.

Full deck scan by macstrat @ https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/559-cartomancer

The inspiration behind my project. Tarot; French cartomancy; transformation deck; analytical psychology; art; surrealism; symbolism; fingerprints; vintage prints; and illustrations (to name only a few.)

Diamond: Sensation, perception with our senses, childhood and earth.

Spade: Thinking, becoming part of society, early adulthood and air.

Heart: Intuition, abundance and fertility, midlife and water.

Club: Feeling, knowing without reasoning, late adulthood and fire.

Why is this deck unique? Each card tells a story. The whole deck paints the landscape of our lives with vintage engravings and prints—the ideal synergy between significance and design in a pack of cards. There is nothing like it out there—that’s why I’m doing it!

Cartomancy, divination? Yes, of course! The Cartomancer Poker Deck uses the existing structure of a standard deck of cards as a canvas for a new insightful cartomancy system. ALL the cards feature universal archetypes and symbols making it a very instinctive tool for divination. But if you're not into this, you will still enjoy the deck for its beauty and uniqueness.

The deck also was shipped with a 32 page companion booklet the size of the box, containing an introduction to the deck, keyword meanings for each card, and ideas for divination.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/919324046/cartomancer-poker-deck-archetypal-playing-cards

Produced in 2011, Erik Mana’s own personal deck of playing cards Version 1 of the Mana Deck is called The Oracle Edition. It was a collaboration between artist Esez Campaña and Erik himself – putting together elements of esoteric symbols and beautiful artwork, combined with an elegant mix of metallic colours. Praised by prestigious communities including the Conjuring Arts Research Center in New York, the Mana deck is still one of the most sought after playing cards in the world. The deck possesses beautiful artwork, but also includes elements with deep and enigmatic meanings - only a few of which were to be publicly revealed! For example, the tuck box has a 3 of hearts card reveal on the side flaps, while the box lid has the Latin words Magus Per Mens Et Manus, which means something like "magician by mind and hand". Card Back As Erik describes it: "The back exhibits a combination of ornate flourish designs as a reflection of all three art forms with its flowing swirls and organic movement. This deck reveals elements of circles to represent focus and unity and the number 3 is incorporated into the design as it represents growth and good fortune. " Especially noteworthy, however, is that the design has a stunning 3D type effect, which makes it look as if the card back has layers that can be touched and felt! The 3D look is a remarkable and convincing illusion - suggestive of the other mysteries that this deck contains. The original design of this deck was blue, but this was later changed to silver to reflect the fact that the deck was produced in limited numbers (a total of 5000 were produced), and thus was intended to make the deck look more exclusive and rare. Five metallic ink colours were used on the faces, backs, and box. Court cards While the traditional court card designs were retained, each suit was given its own colour: Spades = purple; Hearts = red; Clubs = green; Diamonds = silver. Along with the addition of gold accents, this helps give each suit its own spirit and character. Number cards The number cards also have a traditional design. Meanwhile the Ace of Spades features flourishing swirls, and elements of three are present in its design (just as was the case with the back designs). Aces In many other decks the other Aces are neglected or overlooked, so to compensate for that, in this deck all four Aces have been given their own special framing. Furthermore, all the red pips in this deck have been given more vibrance and energy than normal, by being printed in a metallic red. Jokers Erik considers the "Oracle" edition of the Mana Deck to pay homage to three related art forms: magic, mentalism, and cardistry. These influences are immediately apparent when looking at the Joker, which was designed in honour of cardists. It pictures a visual display of the Oracle Cut, which is Erik's variation of the Sybil cut with an `Angel' display. Quality This deck was designed by graphic artist Esez Campaña, in collaboration with Erik Mana. It was produced by Manila based Cutting Edge, which is sole distributor of USPCC products and several magic brands (e.g. Ellusionist and Theory11) in the Philippines. Campana and Mana worked together in order to capture something of the spirit of a performer. In their words: "Both magician and artist worked together to develop a unique deck that would transcend time and would embody the true spirit of the performer. What they conjured was a fusion of old world elegance with modern day artistic flare to symbolize the new era of magic & cardistry with the respect and foundation of the magic of the past." The design process took over 10 months, and the result was a deck of cards with the beautiful artwork seen in the accompanying photos. The deck was printed by USPCC, on 325 card stock with their usual "Magic Finish", which is preferred by many for the smooth fans and flourishes it enables. It has the usual modern cut (back to face) used by USPCC, which Erik prefers because "it allows for beautiful straight dribbles, perfect single hand faros and table faros, not to mention more accurate riffles, pinky counts and thumb counts." The finish and handling was exactly what was hoped for, with the deck fanning smoothly and evening, and the stock being crisp and yet springing well. The deck was so successful that it was sold out within a week of its launch! It is now considered a collector's item, and typically goes for high prices on the secondary market.

Chancellor follows in the footsteps of Zenith and is possibly the most beautiful deck we have created. Inspired by a small detail on a century-old Bicycle card back, Chancellor grew into an incredibly detailed artwork, packing all of the experience and design innovations that Encarded has developed since our founding in 2011.

There will be just 1000 decks of Chancellor printed. The Chancellor tuck is incredible, with thick matte black paper, two foils and large scale, incredibly detailed blind embossing. The deck is sealed with a beautiful metallic foil seal, individually numbered and carefully designed to integrate with the tuck design.

The card backs are printed on the same Master finish stock as Zenith and features FOUR metallic inks that intertwine into a detailed, "shadow bordered" back with subtle edge details and dimension. The faces are fully custom, with a dramatic court featuring beautiful detail and unique colorations.