Heartless Abyss is the flagship deck of the series, featuring foil-on-back (cold as a Demon's Heart) and a slick tuck box made in Italy by Boschiero&Newton. Technical features: A layer of gold cold foil on card backs Metallic inks (gold and red) on faces Luxury Tuck box with two foils and premium matte paper. Inner foil on all boxes! Limited edition printing of 2000 decks (not sealed) Cards printed by Cartamundi, box made by Boschiero & Newton

Introducing a precisely digitally hand-recreated reproduction of the first published complete transformation playing card deck in the world! The blue "Joan of Arc" deck is the first in a series of six famous decks we plan to release.

The very first transformation deck issued by Cotta is from 1805. This deck is probably the most famous of all six, and is incredibly scarce. Original illustrations were fiddling artworks done by hand, on copper plates that were manually engraved with stipple and etching, and the cards were printed on linen period stock that was 97 mm x 69 mm in size, with blank card backs and squared corners at that time. Only the court cards were hand-colored, while the number cards used red stencils.

Cotta’s transformation cards were very successful and became a role model for later transformation decks from other publishers. And since the card backs were blank, individual cards were sometimes used by the nobility as visit cards and for leaving messages, so these playing cards often became multi-purpose items.

The images on the court cards are characters inspired by Schiller's play "Die Jungfrau von Orleans" ("Joan of Arc").

The central figure of Joan of Arc is depicted as the Queen of Spades, the Maid of Orleans who inspired the French army to victory, but was later burned at the stake.

The court cards were designated with the words "Valet", "Dame", and "Roi", which are the French terms corresponding to the Jack, Queen, and King.

In the first deck, beside Joan of Arc depicted as the Queen of Spades, other individuals closely associated with Joan include Etienne de Vignolles or La Hire (Jack of Hearts), who helped Joan to victory in the battle of Patay in 1429; and Raymond (Jack of Diamonds), a peasant who was Joan's page.

Key political leaders who figured prominently in the events surrounding Joan's life are also represented, including King Charles VII (King of Hearts), the French monarch who relied on Joan's help to reach the Rhiems, the traditional place of coronation; Charles' mother Isabeau (Queen of Hearts), who was in league with Charles' enemy; Charles' mistress Agnes Sorel (Queen of Diamonds); Charles' opponent Philippe the Good (King of Diamonds), an ally of England; and the king of Naples, René d'Anjou (King of Clubs), who lost the kingdom after defeat in battle. General Talbot (King of Spades) was the English commander of the outpost of Orleans at Saint Loup, who was wounded in battle, captured, and was part of a prisoner exchange.

Both Joan's "sister" Louison (Queen of Clubs) and Montgomery (Jack of Clubs) are fictional creations of Schiller, while the fictional Lionel (Jack of Spades) is the character who holds up Joan's sword in a location revealed by the voices that she supposedly heard telling her to help.

Features:

Printed by USPCC on Classic Stock

Poker Size

Embossed Finish

52 Cards + 2 Extra Jokers + 2 Extra Collectible Cards

Metallic Ink On Box & Full Bleed Backs

Custom Tuck Seal

Puzzle Image on all Tuck Spines of the Series

Digitally Hand-Recreated and Designed by Azured Ox

Produced By Will Roya

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playingcarddecks/cottas-almanac-1-transformation-playing-cards-reproduction

The idea for this deck, The Lepidopterist, started as just that: an idea — one that I wasn't sure would ever come to fruition. Between jobs, I would work on it and, after many months, it was finally ready to bring to you! The real inspiration for this deck came from two main things:

• Art Nouveau design and architecture, specifically conservatories/sun rooms

• The incredibly beautiful Chrysiridia rhipheus, better known as the Madagascan Sunset Moth

Both are so unique and so beautiful. Art Nouveau brought an elegant, almost psychedelic, look to the end of the Victoria era and the Sunset Moth has such vibrant, iridescent colors, it almost doesn't seem real. Their special appeal combined to inspire this project.

Thus, The Lepidopterist playing cards were born— a deck of cards inspired by elegant architecture and nature, bringing elements of both into the creation of something I hope you will be proud to be a part of.

Kickstarter: Lepidopterist Playing Cards

Currently a Target exclusive. See gallery for full box. Repeating courts but designed in the style of sabacc from the movies.

Room17 (or Room XVII) is a limited edition deck with numbered seal. The tuck-box is like a Rosetta Stone that you can decipher if you want to spend some time.

The quest that was launched together with this product is over and the winners will be announced soon. You can read about it on www.stockholm17.com/room17

The cards are the same from Cartomancer variant, but they have been gilded in France. The deck has the numbered seal on the back. Numbers are assigned randomly and cannot be requested.

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Room17 Specs.

Cards Printed by Cartamundi

Paper stock: True Linen B9 finish

Gold Gilding on the edges (Made in France)

57 cards poker size

Golden cold-foil on both sides of the cards

100% custom, with one-way court cards and spot cards.

Back design is also one-way

55th card: double backer

56th card: enigma card (see pictures)

57th card: Room17 Quest hints

Tuckbox printed by Oath Playing Cards with gold foil, red foil, inner foiled graphics, and embossing on wine-red paper.

56 Cards are cello-wrapped, not the 57th.

Tuckbox is cello-wrapped as well

Limited Edition seal with progressive number (668 made in total, even if the number says 680).

Limited Edition, only one run.

Passione Playing Cards presents Vivaldi: a playing cards project that aims to bring the baroque vibe and the music of the Italian composer and violinist Antonio Vivaldi into a set of masterfully illustrated decks.

The Vivaldi ensemble is composed of two main decks: Vivaldi Allegro and Vivaldi Largo. Vivaldi Concerto is a special, limited and numbered book-like edition holding the playing cards of both variations. Stretch goals will add a series of goodies that will be revealed later in the campaign. Stay tuned!

In Vivaldi Allegro characters are drawn with a (bowed) string instrument. All court cards are custom, and the colour scheme of each suit matches the mood of a season in order to homage The Four Seasons: one of the most famous masterpieces composed by Antonio Vivaldi.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/passione/vivaldi-playing-cards-printed-by-uspcc

Golden Ticket version of Table Players Vol. 5, No. 13 Slims. Edition of 25.