Blood Kings by Daniel Madison & Peter McKinnon are the last in the Kings series of playing cards. Stacked in mnemonica straight out of the box, these cards ooze sophistication from their warm, blood-red backs. The paper vault for these beautiful cards is a matte-finish tuck case, blood-soaked all the way through with a deep red ink and finished with gold-foil detailing. Only the finest for Royalty... The sides read 'Live Like Kings' - Die Like Kings', a nod to the previous best-selling versions and a final goodbye from this influential series. GAFFS INCLUDED The Angle Z Gaff is dead, but the double-backer lives on. Instead, we've added a duplicate Queen of Hearts in each deck that sits proudly on top of your stack. Behind every great King, is a powerful Queen. Blood Kings. Only in death can they live forever.

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HTV2 was initially meant for the Orange + Special Editions only, but upon experimenting with different colour palettes for the back design, and seeing just how good the red edition looked, we knew this deck had to be brought to life.

Just like the Orange edition, we have matched the back design with the court card backgrounds with blood red, providing a striking background for our Halloween court cards.

For the Blood Red Edition, we really wanted red to take over, so instead of using a pumpkin orange for the hearts and diamonds, we've instead opted for red to match the back design and court card backgrounds. This blood-red theme continues into the aces also, which receive a bloody makeover.

The tuck case has been re-designed on the front to continue the cinema-themed style of HTV1 Alternate Edition, with each Theatre Edition choosing two different court card characters to star on the front of the tuck. All Theatre Editions will be gilded with the Blood Red Theatre Edition featuring red gilding.

The back of the tuck features a Gold foiled cinema-ticket inspired numbered seal, which will also be numbered.