A whole year after the first Venexiana deck, the story continues with a travel to the dark heart of 18th century Venice. Venexiana Dark features a series of obscure and marginal characters who complete the picture of this haunting city. Thieves, assassins, prostitutes, wicked noblemen and masters of deception are all on board in this imaginary gondola. Hop in and follow the journey to the unknown through the narrow canals of Venice.

Venexiana Dark is in fact two different decks: The "Masked" and the "Revealed" editions, with the first one featuring the courts wearing masks, while the second has the courts unmasked and their faces revealed!

There was a mixup in production which resulted in the tucks for the decks being mixed (masked card in revealed tuck and vice-versa).  This was only noticed after initial shipments were started and then shipment halted to allow the decks to be re-packaged.  As a result, some decks exist with the wrong cards in the wrong tuck, but the majority are assumed to have been corrected.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/709754364/venexiana-dark-playing-cards

http://www.halfmoonplayingcards.com/

Finally, after almost a year of working on this (hence the hilarious 2022 on the top flap of the tuck box), OATH STANDARD PLAYERS is ready.

We are very proud of this release as it represents one of the finest printing jobs we’ve done so far and one of the few times that my perfectionism had no comments to make after leaving the press...

It is also the best handling deck we have released up to date.

There are two color variants available: NAVY BLUE and BURGUNDY. We have printed 1500 decks of each variant. These colors will never be reprinted and once they're gone, they're gone forever. The deck features an enhanced version of our OATH standard courts, with gold metallic inks on the faces and backs.

The Carmina edition is the latest addition to the elegant Chronos series.

The Golden Rule - Players edition

The courts where inspired by Dondorf's "Shakespeare" playing cards, this deck features 100% original artwork with brilliant gold metallic ink. The tuck box features 3 different foils (red and two shades of gold) with embossing on premium black stock, and gold foil on the inner side.

Scans of each card can be seen at www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Midgard.htmlThe Midgard playing card decks were released as a pair of decks, Danegeld (black) and Yggdrasil (dark red). Both featured silver foil embossed tucks and added bonus cards, Loki and Futhark/Fuþar. Yggdrasil is the iconic ash tree of Norse mythology. Serving as the axis mundi (world center) and a direct connection between deities and men. The roots play an equally important role in Norse cosmology of Gods, Giants and Men. Huginn and Muninn fly high in the distance, overlooking the realm of Gods. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/653481781/midgard-playing-cards

Olympia is an original set of American playing cards designed by Steve Minty and produced by the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC). The deck is inspired by the fascinating stories of Greek Gods and their deeds. Olympia blends the classical beauty of Greek Sculptures with the elegant and sleek lines of modern design.

I spent countless hours as a child devouring their stories about love, betrayal, death, vengeance and the heroic deeds within Greek Mythology. I couldn't help but be fascinated by the these stories and it is something that I am very proud of being exposed to.

My goal when creating the Olympia Deck was to capture the beauty of Greek sculptures in a new medium of playing cards while simultaneously updating it with a graphic twist. I aim to make this deck worthwhile enough to be given as an offering to the altars of the Gods.

for scans of each card see

http://www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Olympia.html 

for scans of all cards can be seen at www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Branle.html

Based on the Russian souvenier Sagulatus deck with artwork from Vyacheslav Yastremsky Sagulatus, this Branle deck has improved graphics, quality casino paper with coating and classic tuck box. Mr.Vyacheslav requested to not have his full name printed on the box or with the project so a pseudonym was used of Chelsey Trem (part of his name - vyaCHESLAV yasTREMsky).

 

Kickstarter project from Spaaaade & Co, 5,000 printed of each Gold and Silver editions. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaaaade/bicycle-hundred-years-war-playing-cards

This is Montague vs Capulet, a stunning new Bicycle branded playing card deck, inspired by William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. This is a fully custom deck with an elaborate card back and 2 different tuck cases. 

Belgian Virginie Carquin is an absolutely amazing artist, and she illustrated the portraits for this new fine art deck with lots of details that you won't want to miss.

• Printed by The United States Playing Card Company
• Bicycle® branded
• Inspired by William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
• Illustrated by renowned Belgian artist Virginie Carquin
• 100% completely custom designed playing cards, including art, pips, royalty, backs, jokers, and everything else that you can put into a card deck
• Custom Tuck Cases
• 56 cards including a full 52 card deck, plus 2 Jokers, a Character Outline card, and a double-backed card
• Normal poker size deck of playing cards
• Upgraded Bee card stock from USPCC
• Printed with metallic inks

The SEASONS Set is a limited set of playing cards that visually captures the changing seasons. Unique from other deck sets, these cards embrace two different illustrated artworks while still maintaining a consistency for the set. The back designs incorporate intricate flourishing to entrance any spectator. The cards are produced by The United States Playing Card Company to ensure the quality and craftsmanship that playing card collector's have come to expect. The SEASONS Set is the first card set in the world to display the culmination of the following features: 100% custom artwork Subtle one-way court card design The New "Magic Finish" Aristocrat Stock Platinum Metallic Ink Platinum Foil Embossing Asymmetrical Wrap-Around Box Design

The V1 has Gold foil on the tuck box

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 First Edition which was not limited and in the Soft Touch Midnight Blue colored tuck.

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

Venexiana Gold also won the Best Innovation on a Deck of Playing Cards award from UnitedCardists 2014 Deck of the Year http://unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6448