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Aqua 100% Pure White Plastic Playing Cards by Make Playing Cards - MPC — Kickstarter

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Rainbow Holographic Cards by TCC Playing Cards | daniel_golokolosov on Instagram

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Individually drawn playing card designs that I made into a real deck - get Insecta Decks in my Etsy Store

The designs were made using colour pencils and then digitally edited - overall the deck and packaging took more than 1000 hours (which is why I don't make decks very often!) Printing was by Cartamundi, funded via Kickstarter.

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Sanrio: playing cards (1984)

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Happy release day to my beautiful new double deck of playing cards. Find it in good bookstores, or check out http://eatf.art for some places to order them.

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✨LIMITED EDITION✨ Only 8 hours left to pre-order!

Prideknights.com ⚔️🌈

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Kickstarter: Bicycle Diner Dames Playing Cards By Kelly Gilleran

Produced by The Futurist Co., the Bicycle Diner Dames Playing Cards are now funding on Kickstarter. At the time of writing, the deck is 99% funded with days to go! 

Illustrated by Kelly Gilleran, a Colorado-based illustrator focusing on traditional media illustrations. Her artwork features vintage-inspired food patterns and food pin-ups for surface design applications. 

The fully custom deck showcases Kelly’s Foodie Pinups Collection with 14 of her most iconic designs. The Simplistic retro design patterns showcase the masterful illustration. 

The suits portray each very important meal of the day- Breakfast: Clubs, Lunch: Hearts, Dinner: Diamonds, and Dessert: Spades. 

Each court card is painted vintage-inspired food for the corresponding meal, from Donut, Hot Dog, to Hamburger and Chocolate Chip Cookie~! 

Printed by the USPCC and pledge starts at $12 on Kickstarter.

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Feel the Universe Has Just Dropped Odyssey Karma

Feel the Universe has just dropped Odyssey Karma playing cards on their online store. Going back to its roots, the new deck is inspired by nebula and designed with cardists in mind. 

The vibrant nebula color palette accentuates card flourishes and displays, fans, spins, and cascades look incredible! 

The Karma edition features custom modern suits, aces, sci-fi courts, and 2 custom Jokers. The vibrant color palette is consistent across the deck and the iconic diagonal white stripe is prominently featured on the card backs. 

  The deck is packaged in an eye-catching nebula tuck case with a wraparound design and adorned with striking rare pearl foil. The Karma edition definitely maintains the futuristic and sci-fi look and feel from the previous editions. 

  The Odyssey Karma Edition will be printed by xxx. Limited edition of 2000 units, one of the most exclusive and limited Odysseys. Available now on feeltheuniverse.com for €14.95. This story first appeared on crdstry.com and is republished with permission. [post_ad]

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So between these and the constellations I am having quite the mail day.

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First look at opening my Backer reward for The Constellation Deck by Deckidea. Debating on opening one of each or keeping them sealed.

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HOROLOGY DECK: Playing Cards For The Watch Lover by The Garden Party — Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegardenparty/horology-deck?ref=discovery_category

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hi friends!! are you in search of new playing cards? or do you like collecting cards? well do i have a find for you!!! introducing the kickstarter to “ONE” a card deck launched june 29 2021 and created by art by gaoshoua. please consider looking into the kickstarter campaign and i hope you’ll buy yourself (or a lucky friend) a lovely new deck inspired by the Hmong people! <3

all photos pulled from the kickstarter campaign page!

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Deck Review: Artisan by Theory11

When these bad boys dropped through my letterbox yesterday morning (promptly, I might add. That eBay guy got some “speedy service” feedback from me, I can tell you) - I was convinced I now owned a deck of the most beautiful playing cards ever designed. 

If we’re talking about the box design, I could well have been proven right. Quite simply the box is a thing of sheer beauty. Indeed it was a picture of the box on the Theory11 website that prompted me to veer off course from my pre-determined order of deck buying and spend some cash on these beauties.

Let me add a note of clarification here. I’ve recently returned to doing card magic after a hiatus of several years. Back in 2006 and 2007 I started learning card sleights for the first time, having been absolutely fascinated by magic and having a fondness for playing cards since childhood. Quite why I waited until I was 22 to actually get into it myself is a mystery. Actually, it’s not really - it’s more a case of not having a clue where to begin learning until a friend and I found some Ellusionist trailers during a night of random Youtubing. From that moment on, I was the student and Brad Christian was my teacher. I snapped up Ellusionist DVDs like nobody’s business. “Go slow!” Brad would say. “Practice over and over again” he would emphasise. “Rewind this tape a billion times until you learn every minute detail of what I’m doing” he would implore.

I promptly ignored all of this and decided just four or five months into my stint as a magician that I was ready to hit the streets of Edinburgh during the height of festival time and having my friend film me doing a trick on some unsuspecting member of the public. The first couple of girls we approached, sitting on the momument in parliament square, snubbed me with a tale about waiting to be picked up or something (loosely translated, they meant “fuck off you creepy prick and shove your cards up your farter”) . The second person I approached, a girl called Adele and her boyfriend outside The Tron pub seemed happy enough to be given the gift of magic and so I decided I was going to perform that trick where you have the spectator hold the card in between both of their hands while you switch it for the card you’ve just shown them is on top of the deck.

So here I was, with pretty much zero experience, no knowledge of the psychology of misdirection or any idea how to control my spectator about to perform a completely under-rehearsed sleight on camera in a public street. Not surprisingly, I failed spectacularly. I brutally flashed both cards on a double lift, became overcome with nerves and fumbled my way through the rest of the trick to no reaction before bidding farewell to the spectators whose time I had just wasted (but who were polite throughout, thankfully). I then pretty much gave up on becoming a magician. I still practiced and collected decks but I never had the confidence to perform for anyone again and gradually my interest moved on to other things.

My disassociation with the art was finally cemented when, over the course of moving house several times, I pretty much lost all of my decks of cards. Even before I started doing magic, I had loved cards. Just holding them, shuffling them, doing flourishes etc. Has always been something I’ve enjoyed since childhood so losing my collection was just further proof of my increasingly lessening passion for doing magic with them.

During my 5 year hiatus, while my hardcore obsession for magic seemed like a faded memory, I had always made sure I always had a few decks of Bikes handy at all times and although I no longer ate, slept and breathed card magic I would still often sit watching something while practicing my double lifts, fans, cuts, passes, top changes etc. etc. etc. and I never threw away my multitude of Ellusionist learning material.

All of that has led me back to where I am now. I was bored and going through some boxes of junk I had when I came across my Ghost Gaff deck and on a whim, I threw on the Army Of 52 DVD and it was like the spark re-ignited in me. Hey, I’m never going to be a professional magician. Music is my #1 passion in life and that’s what I’m going to pursue professionally but card magic and deck collecting are some of my favourite hobbies and a little bit of age and hopefully some wisdom and maturity in the last few years have led me to the stage where I can take the time to really get things down before I perform them to anyone. I’m now performing with more confidence than ever, safe in the knowledge that I’m not going be afraid to fuck up every once in a while.

So, now that this deck review has been interrupted with my life story. What was the point I was trying to make? Well, I no longer see owning a billion decks of cards as something I have to do if I want to be serious about card magic, it’s just a hobby. I love playing cards and I want to start collecting them again. Quite frankly, I’ve been fairly ruthless in trying to own as many of the same decks as I had in my 06/07 collection in the present day. So far so good but I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’ll probably never own a deck of white-pipped black tigers again unless I pay massive shipping costs. I wish I had known how rare this deck would become when I used to think it was the inferior cousin of the red-pipped deck which sat beside it on my shelf.

Phase 1 in restoring my collection came in the form of writing down as many of the decks I used to own and ticking them off as I purchased them in the present day. I resolved to not be swayed by all of the fancy Ellusionist decks that had surfaced in my absence or be taken in by these upstart Theory11 chaps, who I had never even heard of as my hiatus had begun shortly before they formed. Anyhoo, having very nearly ticked off every deck on my list, I couldn’t resist anymore and decided to treat myself to two decks that had really taken my eye, an Ellusionist Sultan Republic and a Theory11 Artisan deck.

The Artisan box is just a work of sheer aesthetic beauty. I’m a real traditionalist when it comes to cards, I like my cards to look like cards. I like black decks as much as the next man, but usually only when they’re black versions of established decks - which is why I Iove Tally Vipers despite the general hatred of them and Black Ghosts and Shadow Masters have made my return to deck collecting very visually pleasing.

The thing about the Artisans is that the back design on the box really lives and breathes by it’s embossed-ness. If that’s even a word. When it comes to the actual cards, the back design goes down from 10/10 to a mere 8/10. Still great but in reality, it’s almost as if on some subconcious level, my mind wants the backs of the cards to also be embossed and is slightly disappointed that they aren’t. Quite frankly, embossed playing cards would be horrific as we all know but god damn - that box.

A reccuring theme of my deck reviews will be that I won’t go into handling in too much detail. I think we all know any cards from Theory11 or Ellusionist are going to handle well. Although, I will say that I opened a new deck of Bikes on the same day as the Artisans and found the Bikes to fan far better - hardly a justification for paying about 5 times as much for the Artisians. Thankfully, the sheer aesthetic magnificence of the Artisans more than justifies it. From the insanely detailed Ace of Spades (which also looks stunning embossed on the front of the box) to the slightly darker than usual court cards, these things will be taking pride of place in my fledgling collection as it I continue to rebuild and improve it.

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My old Artifice deck by Ellusionist. I was never a huge fan of the pips and design of the faces on this one, but I love the ace of spades artwork! Either way, I’ll probably be buying another one when the Gaff System is released :3
 PS: I nought this deck before the other Artifice came out (probably around when it was released) so I’m not sure if it’s the 1st or 2nd version of the deck.

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This is getting as bad as my mug hoarding

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The Crossed Keys Playing Cards From Ellusionist

The Crossed Keys are the ancient iconography for the gates of heaven. Inverted, the keys represent the gates of hell. It’s this strong symbol of power that pairs perfectly with Peter Turner’s mentalism work. 

From Ellusionist, this exquisite deck is crafted with magicians in mind. The deck comes with an Edwardian green colorway with metallic gold inks. The intricate design and details shimmer even the dimmest of light. 

   With the exception of the Ace of Spades and Jokers, the face cards are pretty much standard but updated with a color palette consistent with the rest of the deck. 

Also, the elegant back design with gold line accents masks an incredibly intuitive marking system for the clever magician to take advantage of.

The Crossed Keys tuck box is subtly wrapped in gold foil, so it won’t distract those who aren’t paying attention but will impress those who do. 

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