From the mind of renowned artist Wen Yu Li ( http://wen-m.deviantart.com ) comes the Medusa playing card deck. The Medusa deck is a fully customized deck with every element of the card reimagined. The cards come alive with a balance of simple design and stunningly detailed art. Dive into a world of fantasy from the dreams of a truly gifted artist. Each suit is inspired by the iconic races of fantasy. Spades represent the realm of the Orks, Hearts the kindgom of the Elves, Diamonds the citadels of the Dwarves, and Clubs the dynasty of Humans. The Medusa deck is a stunning way to add flavor to your weekly game of poker, dazzle the audience of the cardist and magician, and make a heart stopping addition to your collection.

Cipher Studios is a small company of avid gamers who have over 26 years of collective game industry experience. Having worked on a broad range of games including collectible card games, board games, and miniature war games we are very excited to bring our vision to a deck of Poker cards where the seed of our future obsessions began.

Wen Yu Li is an artist with a huge following of fans. He has been the lead designer and artist for the Anima roleplaying, miniature game, and card games for over 6 years. To see more of his work go to http://wen-m.deviantart.com/.

For Scans of every image

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

KickStarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1188790300/medusa-playing-card-deck

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.

Special White Gilded Edition Emerald Tally-Ho  

200 Total Made  

USPCC inadvertently packaged the gilded Silver additions into the white Standard edition tuck case. Unfortunately they also used up all of the numbered silver edition seals that were meant for the 1-200 Silver Editions.

LIMITED EDITION OF 2,500. INDIVIDUALLY INSPECTED, SIGNED AND NUMBERED. WRAPPED IN GOLD FOIL AND SEALED IN A UNIQUE SIDEWAYS BOX.

This beautiful deck contains the blue scarabs and has some special adornments fitting for its namesake, SAPPHIRE!

- Special sapphire blue card stock tuck box

- Ice blue foil stamped accents and tuck art

- Special edition CKC side seal label

This beautiful deck contains the red scarabs and has some special adornments fitting for its namesake, RUBY!

- Special red pepper linen cover tuck stock

- Red fire foil stamped tuck art

- Special edition side seal label

For scans of each card see www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/html/Cards/Crystallum.html

Last year, Voltige Playing Cards became the first publicly offered Dan and Dave deck with a sideways tuck-case. Despite some imperfections of the box, the cards were undeniably fantastic, wonderfully bourgeois, and above all elegant. Today we are pleased to offer a limited supply of the second edition of Voltige. An updated look to the design of the tuck-case adds unrivaled refinement to an already timeless deck of cards.