Ronin Playing Cards is a hand-illustrated deck of playing cards that transports you to the golden age of Samurai warrior. Inspired by the powerful artistry of traditional Japanese Kuniyoshi paintings, each card captures the spirit of the legendary Samurai with stunning detail and reverence to the ancient code of honor.
At the heart of "Ronin" are four distinct Samurai clans, each represented in its own deck: the Spades Clan, the Hearts Clan, the Clubs Clan, and the Diamonds clan. Each clan is brought to life through intricate, one-of-a-kind artwork, with a unique back design tailored to their story and symbolizing their fierce loyalty and strength. Each clan has it's own emblem, and it is reflected on the back of the tuck box and the respective back design for each deck.
Housed in beautifully crafted tuck cases, these decks feature embossing and luxurious foiling accents, adding an elevated, tactile experience to every touch. Made of matte stock with custom-shaped inlet and tuck flap, and it's colors are assigned accordingly. The top side of the box features the edition name done in slight embossing. The front side of the box features the name of the Clan in Japanese character in stylistic brush strokes, which also appears on the tuck flap. The back side of the box features the outline of the clan's respective emblem in slight embossing adorned with metallic foil.
The Aces feature samurai helmets adorned with metal accessories that has the shape of respective card suit. The back ground of each cards suit are colored respectively. The indices has Japanese characters of the number and ranks. The Number Cards feature custom pips: suit drawn using traditional brush strokes. The Courts feature two-way illustrations of Japanese warriors jacks, geisha queens, and samurai kings. The Jokers feature identical illustration of demon masks, colored red and blue respectively. The extra two cards form "Ronin" in stylized Japanese characters. For the artworks, on every metallic details (such as the weapons or armour metal ornaments) along with the golden strips on every card are finished with gold cold foiling.
The Ronin Special Edition continues the story of the previous Ronin decks. Featuring a completely redesigned, full-foiled tuck case, a new black foiled back design, and all-new Jacks. The tuck box is red semi-soft touch matte stock with black foil on the stylized Japanese characters (浪人 - ronin) and embossed demon mask illustration. The back design features black and red foiling, with the red elements on the broken border as well as the menacing eyes of the onis (Japanese demons). The Jacks for this deck are shown as full-length illustrations, showing the banished Ronin warriors slaying the demons.
