Collector's Box & Deluxe Edition "The Knight":

• Holographic foil giving the playing cards a true fantastical feel, presenting a dazzling magical radiance.
• Gilded with prismatic blue gilding. The embellishments of gilded edges serve to enhance the noble elegance from every angle.
• Numbered Seals - out of 666, and the only way to acquire these is through the collector's box.
• Featuring beautiful designs with gold foils, the collector's box is a beauty in itself, filled with luxurious designs and intricate elements.

Kickstarter

ARK, with its leading-edge traditional Chinese ink painting and innovative card box design, brings forth this richly mythical book and its stories once again to the world.

In the design of ShanHai, traditional Chinese ink painting techniques were employed, resulting in over 100 large-scale hand-drawn illustrations. Even though they may appear as tiny details on the playing cards.

The cards draw inspiration from the "Shan Hai Jing," with the theme centered around the Queen Mother . This shifts the focus to the Kunlun Mountains in the west, painted using traditional Chinese landscape ink painting techniques.

STANDARD DECK

• Based on the 'Shan Hai Jing'
• Chinese ink painting style
• Four-panel folding screen case
• Clever card back design.

ARK CASE

• Four-panel folding screen case
• Shan Hai adopts a new double-layer case design
• The inner four-panel folding screen design organizes the cards by suit, placing them in four separate compartments.
• When the cards are taken out, the folding screen unfolds to reveal four divine birds on one side and the Queen Mother on the other.

BACK DESIGN

• Dynamic effect
• In the bronze mirror, the image of the leopard is depicted as a yin-yang fish.
• When the cards are fanned out, the same image as the folding screen is hidden within the 56 cards.

The vast majority of creature designs are unique in the two editions of The Cursed & The Crooked. Combined, the two decks feature a total of 20 different fantasy characters, all richly illustrated with many details. Some are mischievous and dangerous, while others are friendly or even helpful. Everything is alive in the kingdom of The Cursed and The Crooked. The trees, the rivers, the birds and the bees… It will be up to you to judge which creature you’ll want to avoid and which creature you’ll want to guide you. The tucks are manufactured with special colored ‘soft touch’ stocks for a matte look and feel, contrasting the richly embossed metallic foils and extravagant artwork on all sides of the tuck case.

The tuck seals of The Cursed & The Crooked are true standouts, designed in a horisontal sticker format, each featuring the unique number for every deck made. To add to the originality, these seals are going to be positioned at the tuck bottoms. The Crooked edition card backs are borderless and feature a myriad of creatures from the fairytale. This is a design that creates a very unique fan of cards, that instantly blends with the undergrowth of any deep forest.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariannelarsen/the-cursed-and-the-crooked

Portfolio52 proudly presents the P52 Deck of 2022 - Nazo Nazo by Jack Brutus Penny.

This is the second official Portfolio52 deck released. The goal of the P52 deck is to collaborate with artists to create wonderful playing card experiences. This year, in addition to helping keep the site running 10% of profits also go towards ARK, a Japanese based animal charity.

We invite you into a magical world that intersects puzzles, animals, and Japanese culture. The Nazo Nazo features whimsical hand-illustrated art, depicting anthropomorphised animals integrated into a large scale puzzle mural. Word puns, stories, and visual scavenger hunts abound in this absolutely puzzle packed deck series. For the curious cat, this world is certainly yours for the taking...

Note that this deck is a prototype and this is the cryptic edition. Hidden details will not be shown throughout these cards that will be present in the print of the final product.

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