The first “Redemption Story” Vol. I is the Red version of the Royal Silk deck, which was meant to be part of the first year’s Patreon. We decided to include in this month's Redemption Stories the 180 decks that were printed with the first Royal Silk print run and were intended as gifts for the first year's Patrons. These decks are printed in Gold and Silver foil instead of two gold foils that are in the other Redemption Story Vol. I - Light Grey tuck version.

Redemption Story Vol. VI is the Patrons deck. A limited run of 650 decks, printed exclusively for our Patrons, due to issues with the print below.

There is a little issue with the PATRONS deck that I NEED YOUR HELP for, and this is the main reason for the lack of updates for a long time: I’ve been debating with myself whether I should reprint it or not! The foil registration is stunning, the details very clear, printing is great, handling is good and I’m overall pleased, but:

• The embossed stock has left some uncovered spots on the foil. Some Patrons noticed that from the beginning. I’m not sure I don’t like that, though. It’s all over the card, so you can see it as a texture instead of seeing it as a flaw. I’m not very happy but I don’t dislike it, either.
• Another little issue is that the pressure and heat applied for the double foil on the back has caused the cards to bend. This affects handling a bit.
• None of these is enough to make me reject the print though but I’m not very happy either.

Patrons POLLED as to what they wanted Lotrek to do with the print job:

• Do you want the deck to be sent as is?
• Or should I give it a try and reprint it on a different, smooth stock?
• In case of a reprint, we will send immediately (before the rewards) one deck to every past and active Patron as a REDEMPTION Story deck FOR FREE.

Patrons voted for REPRINT!

Redemption Story III is ICONS ANNIVERSARY Premium Edition TEST.

This is a Limited Edition of 580 decks. The embossed seal reads: "one of 700 decks" and the initial intention was to make them available to the public as well. However, we had many decks rejected and destroyed and as it usually happens, down the road I decided that I would love to make some changes, these changes became more radical little by little and we ended up with a very different, gilded deck that will be printed later this year, probably towards September. I want to finish with the pending Patreon rewards first, so I cannot do any other foiled decks before the workshop is free from that task.

Therefore, we decided that this edition will be limited to Patrons only as part of the Redemption stories.

All active Patrons waiting for delayed rewards will get one copy of each Redemption story (II & III) without doing anything. Patrons of the lowest tier are not included because they don't get any rewards, so there is nothing that can be delayed for them...

• Patrons of the lowest tier however, can buy the deck.
• New Patrons who don't have delayed rewards (yet) can also buy the deck.
• Patrons of ALL tiers, can add more decks, up to 4 per person of each Volume.

We have printed SILK PLAYERS in 2 color variants, of which one (teal/gold) will be given as a Redemption gift to all who have ordered Royal Silk and are still patiently waiting for it. What nobody knows yet is that there is a third variant, SILK PLAYERS Frost Edition which is one of the next Redemption Stories! This variant will be exclusively available to Patrons, it has a very shiny silver ink and will be silver gilded. There will also be a hand signed Ad card inside the deck: Patrons who have ordered Royal Silk will get both the Teal/Gold free deck and of course the Frost edition as a Redemption Story.