Concept of the Sumi Playing Cards: Artist Edition

This deck is an homage to Irezumi, the traditional Japanese tattoo art form. The Sumi Playing Cards: Artist Edition faithfully emulates the iconic elements of ukiyo-e, fantastical mythological creatures, and Heroes of the Marsh. It forges a visual playing card masterpiece like no other. It is truly a masterpiece, bursting with symbolic significance at every movement of the cards, including spins, shuffles, fans, cardistry, and more.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cardexperiment/sumi-playing-cards

Created by Paul Nojima, sold on Etsy.com, with each of the four suits representing the four main Houses of Westeros: Diamonds: House Lannister Clubs: House Targeryen Hearts: House Baratheon Spades: House Stark Each number-card character has a portrait, name, and (associated) house sigil.  This is a full 54-card poker-sized deck of playing cards. Each character is hand drawn and the Aces are the house sigils. The distressing on the vintage edition was done as post-processing before printing to create a deck of cards that actually looks like it came from Westeros. Each deck comes in a custom designed tuck box and the cards are professionally printed on high quality 310gsm card stock with linen finish.

There is the standard version with a white background on the cards and this vintage version which features an aged paper look.  In addition, there were both a v1 (2013) and a v2 (2015) version of this deck that came in a basic clear plastic case.  The newest 'complete version' (2016) does include a proper tuckbox.

scans of every card can be seen at

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

Born to be a modern take on classic casino back design, CPU playing cards hide multiple marking systems on the back and the edges to let you perform impossible magic effects. You can easily identify any card from the back and without spreading the deck, without looking at the back and faces you will know the position of each card and any missing card even if the deck is shuffled, just imagine the possibilities. This is the best friend of the modern magicians.

The intricate design inspired by the complexity of computer components perfectly incorporates all the deck "magic secrets" in order to make them invisible to the spectator's eyes. The deck takes the name from the most important component, the Central Processor Unit (CPU). Pecision-detailed, printed on the highest quality crushed 310gsm card stock with premium Air Cushion "superior " finish.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/essepcc/cpu-playing-cards-marked-on-the-edges

Other decks in the series:

• Necronomicon
• Unnameable Horrors
• R'lyeh Rising