The Arthurian Holy Grail Edition playing cards are hand-illustrated, medieval playing cards celebrating the story and legend of King Arthur and many characters that have surrounded his court for hundreds of years.

This medieval playing card deck is illustrated in the style of The Book of Kells which is believed to have originated in the same geographical area around the same time as the legend of King Arthur.

The Gold Gilded Arthurian features the same artwork and card design as the Standard edition, with the addition of gold gilded edges. Gilded Arthurian decks will ship with a gold tear strip in order to distinguish between the two editions.

The legendary Arthurian Playing Cards return!

The Arthurian Holy Grail Edition playing cards are hand-illustrated, medieval playing cards celebrating the story and legend of King Arthur and many characters that have surrounded his court for hundreds of years. This medieval playing card deck is illustrated in the style of The Book of Kells that is believed to have originated in the same geographical area around the same time as the legend of King Arthur.

Jackson has redesigned one of his early Kickstarter decks to feature some of the most advanced design, printing & manufacturing techniques of modern time. Every card of the Arthurian Holy Grail Edition features new and vibrant artwork that stays true to the era and legend of King Arthur. With texture-layered, multi-colored foiling on each card, Jackson has embodied the legends-and-tales theme in one beautifully crafted luxury playing card deck.

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