On Kickstarter, Tough Luck V2 Playing Cards

Two years ago, Docs Playing Cards collaborated with Native Tongue Studio to produced Tough Luck Playing Cards. The popular deck won 3rd Place in the UC DOTY 2020 Awards for Best Tuck and with the series having such a large following, founder Michael McClure decided it needed a second version.

There is not much difference between the original edition with the second edition. The first edition comes with black as the background color, while the second edition features blue colorway. Both versions come in the standard bordered edition and the borderless “Shadows” edition.

The card back design features a repeating pattern of a skull-and-dagger with flower tiles. The bordered design is ideal for EDC deck while the borderless design is great for card spreads and fans.

The faces of the cards are custom designed. The numbered cards are using customized pips. The Ace of Spades featured an intricate artwork of the bigger pip guarded by two rabbits along with the deck name and the number ’76’ in Roman numerals.

The court cards featured artworks of undead royals – each of them showcasing an unfortunate event that led to each of the royal’s death: such as 7 years of bad luck from breaking a mirror, drawing a “dead man’s hand” during poker, setting head on fire, and many more.

The Jokers featured identical artwork of an anthropomorphic fox holding a wooden plank by his neck to set up a game of “3 Card Monte”, a favorite game by street hustlers. The standard edition’s faces come in classic black and red color to differentiate the suits, while the “Shadows” edition’s faces are in achromatic black and white – red suits are shown in grey.

The tuck box defines the different variants of the deck series in Tough Luck. The standard edition will be packaged inside the standard box printed in CMYK. The Limited edition features a premium paper cardstock box complete with metallic foiling and embossed elements. There will be custom seals for the Limited Edition and the Gilded Editions. A mini version of the decks is available during this campaign.

Pledge starts with $26 for a set of Standard Edition decks OR $32 for a set of Limited Edition decks on Kickstarter.

Ludus Magnus Playing Cards, Less Than 3 Days Remaining on Kickstarter.

Produced by Michael McClure of Docs Playing Cards in collaboration with designer Brad Gabbard of Native Tongue Studios to create a deck built for the “Rare, Limited, and Luxury Edition” playing cards community on Facebook.

Over a year and a half in the making, Ludus Magnus is a thematic deck that befits a Roman-era currently funding on Kickstarter. The overall design of the deck is based on the Roman Gladiators’ theme depicting the Roman history of bloody sport in an arena, the empire’s form of entertainment.

The custom faces of the cards showcase a cross-section of the Colosseum, adorned with a golden foil broken border and center index. The Ace of Spades presents a sword and shield with the name of the deck and the initials of the card collector’s group.

The courts present the people of ancient Rome: maidens, seers, emperors, and gladiators. The back design is a sophisticated illustration of the Roman theme: shields with helmets and lion insignias along with a sword and a Roman phrase. It has a hint of the golden broken border as same as on the faces – creating a fabulous continuous line when the cards are fanned. The cards will be printed by Legends Playing Cards on the super smooth Viper Finish.

There are at least four editions of this deck on offer during the campaign. The Luxury Edition features embossed matte black with gold foiling. The Limited Edition features embossed matte black with gold and red foiling added with embossed matted red sleeve attached on the sides and back – like an arena opening its doors.

The exclusive RLLE Edition features embossed gold metallic with gold and red foiling. The Rare Edition features an embossed matte red tuck and sleeve with gold and red foiling. The tuck box design shows the big lion insignia guarded by four gladiator armory with showing the initials of involved parties in the creation of the deck.

Pledge starts at $17 for a single Luxury Edition OR get all four editions for $130 (including the Ludus Magnus Mini Deck) on Kickstarter.

Ocean’s Curse by Doc’s Playing Cards

Producer Michael McClure has released another great hit deck- one that has been teased for quite a while and is highly anticipated by fans of Docs Playing Cards. The enchanting Ocean’s Curse playing cards is a deck that felt fitting of the Pirates of the Seven Seas.

The deck itself tells a story of Ocean’s Curse, a pirate ship, and her crews. All of the artworks, from the card back design to pips, and the courts are fully customized and filled with great details and thematic elements. All of these are the works of designer Abraham Garcia (Instagram: @abraham_garcia_illustration).

The tuck box for the cards is made with premium matte paper with detailed 3D embossing complete with foiling. The interior of the tuck features a pirate’s map done in copper foiling.

The color of the tucks determines the editions: White gray for Limited, Black for Private Reserve, and Silver for Gilded.

The Private Reserve edition comes with a special wooden box made by Carat Case Creations. The decks will be sealed with a custom-made seal!

While the singles Limited Edition is sold out, you can still get it by acquiring the half brick box (placed in a custom half brick box). The Private Reserve edition is still available! The Gilded edition (along with custom poker chips) will be released soon. Available now on docsplayingcardco.com for a limited time.

Inspired by The Expert at The Card Table, The S.W. Erdnase Playing Cards

A stunning deck by Docs Playing Cards, a tribute to one of the most iconic books in magic The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase. The deck has already hit its funding goal of $10k on Kickstarter. 

The Expert at the Card Table is an extensive book on the art of sleight of hand published in 1902 by S. W. Erdnase pseudonymous author whose identity has remained a mystery for over a century. As a detailed manual of card sharps, the book is considered to be one of the most influential works on the art of manipulating cards at gaming tables. 

This fully custom deck features classic mirrored-card backs, hand-illustrated court cards, updated pips, bold Ace of Spades, and custom Jokers.



The nostalgic color palette, illustration of hands, and acorn from the iconic book have been beautifully incorporated through the design of the deck. 

The deck is packaged in a beautifully designed tuck box featuring two foil on the details and embossing on a premium Tartan Green Vellum stock.

Printed by the USPCC and pledge starts at $15 on Kickstarter.

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Start Your Engines! Check Out RPM Playing Cards on Kickstarter

RPM is a sleek new deck by Doc's Playing Card Co. and Luke Wadey currently seeking funds on Kickstarter. The campaign features two car-themed decks, available in light and dark versions with additional upgrades to the tuck and gilded versions also being available. The project was funded in just over 24 hours of launch last week! 

 

These decks focus on a car theme and embrace intricate pattern work and typography as we have come to expect from any of Luke's decks. The origin of these decks came from Luke's ambition to be a car designer for most of his life, even studying it at university before switching to graphic design. The decks focus on use for cardistry, their strength lying in bold fans, and designed for rotation. 

  

The decks have several different features that will make them unique to your collection; The dark variant uses a full bleed design, contrasting reds and blacks combined with typography, and is themed around an alloy wheel. All the cards are black and fully custom, also including a flipbook effect showing the value of each card, inspired by an RPM meter on a car dashboard. Brilliant! 

The white deck variant combines both metallic and CMYK inks in a totally different design, aiming to contrast the black decks, a pair of street racers. Again using a flipbook effect on the faces, the semi-border design is based around a car brake disk and combines pattern work and typography once more to draw your eye during flourishes.



Both decks are 100% custom with modified courts and jokers, hand-drawn by Luke. Here are all the decks available during the RPM campaign: Black Edition, Onyx Edition, Onyx Gilded Edition, White Edition, Drift Edition, Drift Gilded Edition 

Also, the limited collector packages come with numbered seals on the main decks as well as limited numbered half brick boxes. Printed by the USPCC and pledge starts at $15 on Kickstarter.

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Only 3 more days to go on Kickstarter! 4 Clans Playing Cards

Only 3 more days to go on Kickstarter! Four Clans is the third collaborative release by Doc’s Playing Card Co. & designer Brad Gabbard of Native Tongue Studio featuring Samurai and Japanese culture. On the theme and design of the deck, Brad told Kardify,

As always, our main goal is to produce stylized, interesting cards while maintaining the highest standards in feel and handling. For this deck we travel back to Feudal Japan. Years of brutal war between samurai clans have left the country in ruins. Only four clans remain, each fighting for control of the entirety of Japan for their leader, the shogun.

 

Fully custom, each clan is represented in the deck by a different suit. The custom pips are styled after each clan’s kamon, or crest.



Every part of this deck was created with careful attention to detail and, while the story and clans are fictitious, a great deal of effort was put into ensuring all other elements are portrayed as accurately as possible. Also included is an ad card that gives background information on each clan. 

There are 4 editions on offer during the campaign, Standard Edition and a Limited Edition with premium foiled tuck box, and two gilded editions. The decks are printed by the USPCC. Pledge starts at $13 on Kickstarter!

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Latin Quarter Signature and Special Editions on Kickstarter

The Latin Quarter Playing Cards is a beautiful deck originally funded on Kickstarter late last year. The deck is a collaborative effort between designer Jamie Stark and Mike McClure of Doc’s Playing Card Company and features an intricate design combined with filigree embellishments. Vintage in style with a hint of modern. 

The deeply intricate tuck design pays homage to historic styles and is emblazoned with the Latin phrase “ALEA IACTA EST” which translates as “The die is cast.” The signature and special editions decks are part of the Latin Quarter Gaming Chips campaign currently funding on Kickstarter. The Signature Edition sports a black letterpress tuck with elegant black foil accents. 

Meanwhile, the Special Edition tucks feature letterpress debossing and foil stamped logo with matching gilded edge cards within the tuck: gold, red, purple, and ebony. 

Inside, the deck is pretty by standard traditional court designs but with a few twists including filigree embellishments and gold metallic inks.


The deck is printed by United States Playing Card Company on premium crushed stock with an embossed finish. Pledge starts at $14 on Kickstarter!

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Final Days! Lit V2 Playing Cards on Kickstarter

Designed after timeless classics such as Wynn and Jerry’s Nugget. The team at Docs Playing Card Co. wanted to create a deck that has a beautifully simple and minimalistic design. A design that appeals to collectors, cardicians, and technicians on every continent. Lit V2 Playing Cards is a versatile deck for everyday use currently funding on Kickstarter.

This sleek deck features a black/gold colorway with custom mirrored card backs, Ace of Spades, and Jokers. The court cards are standard but recolored to fit the overall color palette of the deck. The deck isn't too showy for the professional performer and versatile enough to be used for family game nights.

The deck is packaged in a minimalist tuck case for Standard, Limited, and Gilded edition decks. Yes.. the tuck variations serve different purposes. According to the campaign page,

The performer in me cares more about the quality of the cards and less about how the tuck looks. I don't want to spend the extra money on a custom tuck that I will throw away in a few days. On the other hand, the collector in me loves a very nice tuck to display. To solve this issue we offer both a standard tuck as well as a custom hand-assembled tuck. As a thank you to those who have worked on this campaign we also print a few private reserves that aren't for available at this time (Unless included as a giveaway, a brick tier or special).

LIT V2 playing cards will be printed by the USPCC on a crushed casino grade bee stock with an embossed finish. Pledge starts at $13 and available now on Kickstarter. 3 days remaining.

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