Not to be confused with the Arcana Tarot decks, these were made for Scam Stuff in collaboration with Theory11 & USPC.

Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/1166-the_tale_of_the_tempest

Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/1166-the_tale_of_the_tempest

Inspiration and/or artwork came from a number of victorian era printed sources including Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733), The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Under the Waves: Diving in Deep Waters, A Tale (1876), Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Wirbelthiere (1864), Gustave Doré’s “Death on a Pale Horse” & "Achan Is Stoned to Death", Dictionnaire Infernal (1818), Osteographia - The Anatomy of Bones (1733),  Traité de phrénologie humaine et comparée, accompagné d'un magnifique atlas in-folio de 120 planches, contenant plus de 60 sujets d'anatomie humaine et comparée, d'une parfaite execution (1832), misc victorian era advertising prints and other sources.  These collections of art were updated, even modified in some cases, and broken out into categories by suit: Hearts - Victorian Era Anatomy, Spades - Victorian Era advertising, Clubs - bizarre Victorian Era story telling, Diamonds - Victorian Era nature illustrations.

Limited to 100 decks, printed by MPC.

Kickstarter deck created by 4xpixel and sponsored by Full Custom 52. The deck is fully custom with unique back design with oriental sensitivity, every court card contains two illustrations in one card (total: 24 illustrations), each of 8 Jokers has a different illustration, and 4 customized aces with illustrations.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fullcustom52/mirage-deck-of-playing-cards

Full deck scan by macstrat @ https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/243-mirage

Legal Tender is Kings Wild Project's next offering in a long line of luxury playing cards inspired by the artist Jackson Robinson's love of currency art and banknote engraving. With over seven years of playing card design and having produced over 200 custom illustrated decks of playing cards, Legal Tender is the culmination of some of Kings Wild's most breathtaking artwork combined with the industry-leading advancements in printing technology and production.

Note: This is the v2 version of the Holographic Edition, not to be confused with v1. To distinguish, this edition is clearly marked as VERSION II on the bottom of the tuck, thus should receive a separate entry on P52. According to Jackson Robinson, "This version contains a design update that allows for only certain design elements to shine with holographic foil, rather than the entirety of the card, allowing for the artwork to be clearer and more accurate to the modern dollar bill."

Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/575-legal_tender_v2_holographic

Full deck scan here: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/208-ascension_silver_wolves

With a certain personally beloved series broadcasting its final season this year, I was inspired to create these decks as an homage while giving it a spin in my style and interpretation. To me, the aspect I wanted to focus on were the diverse "families" depicted in the series as opposed to individual heroes, villains and so forth. Each house has their own agendas and values that they live (or die, a lot) by and I couldn't help but find that intriguing. I thought to myself, how could I represent each family visually and voila, "Ascension Playing Cards" came into existence.

Full deck scan here: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/469-ascension_golden_lions

With a certain personally beloved series broadcasting its final season this year, I was inspired to create these decks as an homage while giving it a spin in my style and interpretation. To me, the aspect I wanted to focus on were the diverse "families" depicted in the series as opposed to individual heroes, villains and so forth. Each house has their own agendas and values that they live (or die, a lot) by and I couldn't help but find that intriguing. I thought to myself, how could I represent each family visually and voila, "Ascension Playing Cards" came into existence.

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/steveminty/ascension-playing-cards

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