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Silence playing cards is designed with a dark and mysterious Gothic style as the inspiration along with an innovative tuck, using a hollow double-layered box, creating a stunning visual experience of "unmasking".

Limited to 888 decks, the black collector's deck is also stamped by starry foils. In addition, the entire deck is also cold foiled with black holographic material for every card. The deck also features a DIFFERENT back design. Each deck is gilded with a prismatic gold to enhance the dark designs.

Available only in the Collector's Edition Box Set

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Silence playing cards is designed with a dark and mysterious Gothic style as the inspiration along with an innovative tuck, using a hollow double-layered box, creating a stunning visual experience of "unmasking".

Limited to 888 decks, the white collector's deck card box is lined with starry silver foils, along with cutting edge stamping process spreading it like pearls, filling the entire box with a galaxy sparkling effect. The deck also features a DIFFERENT back design. Each deck is also gilded with a starry gold to further elevate the luxuriousness.

Available only in the Collector's Edition Box Set

Sanctissimus Gilded: The only survivors from a 1200+ deck print run which was almost entirely scrapped due to a printer's mistake, are now breathtakingly gilded and available to complete the SANCTISSIMUS set.

Lotrek has a habit of changing and fixing things from one print to another, so this is a slightly different print run from both prior versions. The differences are subtle: The frame is less pronounced and the pips are a bit smaller, also the Ace of Spades doesn't have SANCTISSIMUS and OATH PLAYING CARDS written on it.

Deck features:

• 420 decks in total, all hand numbered
• CMYK with gold and silver metallic inks
• Gold gilding
• Tuck case with 2 foils inside, 3 foils + embossing outside

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.

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.

Since Fable, we have further developed the technique of printing with vibrant colors on black stock. The result is very impressive and beautiful as from the darkness of the black stock emerges the light and colors of the courts. Wrapped in a playful blue prismatic foil, the deck is a feast for the eyes!

It is a limited print run of 550 decks that feature:

Black stock

Blue Prism foil on the back

Blue Prism foil on the Ace of Spades

Smooth handling but not so great for fans (LOL)

Redemption Story Vol. V is the ICONS Celestial deck. A limited run of 450 decks, printed exclusively for Patrons. The deck features gold foil on the back against a beautiful teal background and gold gilding.

Redemption Story Vol. II is the Oath Standard Silver Players deck. A limited run of 410 decks, printed exclusively for our Patrons, using a shiny silver ink instead of gold.

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!