In the course of packing, we had come across a few Aurum decks that were not packaged at the factory as we had designed. On the standard Aurum deck, the gold metallic ad card is the last card in the deck and is what you can see through the custom diecut in the box. 

We've found a few decks (3), however, that are factory sealed and have the Aurum back design or the "blank face" card showing through the diecut window. 2 decks had the joker and 1 deck had the card back design. 

These are a rare collectible item.

Custom deck of playing cards inspired by Coat of Arms. Featuring Coat of Arms & Dark Ages by EPCC. Bronze Age printed by USPCC.

These custom playing cards were designed with an industrial look by Oliver Schiebener in Germany.

Funded as a Kickstarter project on July 2, 2015 with $44,147 pledged from 784 backers, this was a set of three decks (Illumina, Oscura & Suprema). Designed by Giovanni Meroni through Thirdway Industries, this deck was inspired by ancient symbology and traditional playing cards, drawn with the Thirdway Industries sharp and modern style.

Features:

• 100% Illustrated courts, aces and jokers
• Custom pips
• Classic intricate & clean design with perfect symmetry
• Red foil on black tuck
• Metallic inks on cards
• Based on classic playing cards
• Beautiful queens
• Foiled tuck box
• Printed by EPCC
• Very limited print run

This particular deck doesn't feature the numbered seal that can be found on Suprema decks that were pledged for by backers during the kickstarter campaign. This version was printed by Giovanni as his Private Reserve, and might be available for sale through his website in near future.

Database entries for other decks in the series:

• Oscura
• Illumina
• Suprema with seal
• Oscura Prototype
• Illumina Prototype
• Suprema Prototype

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 Grail Edition which was limited to a maximum of 2,500 decks and in the Pearlesque Natural Pearl colored tuck. The Grail cards feature a subtly different silver accented metallic color scheme to the First Edition. 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

For more images, including scans of every single card, please see http://www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Arcana.html

Per direct communication with the artist, there were 14k total decks manufactured (7k light, 7k dark). Of these, 4,200 of each color (4.2k/7k) received an official numbered and signed backer card, but there were a total of 7k printed for each color.