Kickstarter: Jamm Pakd Cards Relaunched Kickstarter Campaign For Wild West Playing Cards

Wild West Playing Cards, are a set of playing cards that depict the Lawmen and Outlaws of the Wild West, have relaunched a Kickstarter campaign that Justin Froyd of Jamm Pakd Cards, hope will fund the production of this gorgeous deck of playing cards.

In July this year, Wild West Playing Cards raised $7k of their $15k target, which unfortunately was not enough to allow the project to go to the next stage. However, this month Justin is back with a lower target goal, a revamped campaign, and an updated design!

On the changes in design, Justin tell Kardify,

The main changes that we made were in the shape of the pips and going with the Bicycle Branded Tuck Box. The first design was inspired by some old Western Pictures we found on the internet were the pips had more straight edges. After the first launch was unsuccessful, I reached out to people and listened to my supporters. The main item they wanted to be changed was the shape of the pips.

Justin continued,

So we went back to the drawing board and changed the shape of the pips to more of a traditional style and decided to design the tuck box with the Bicycle Brand. Everyone that gave me feedback stated that the cards are much better with the new pips so I moved forward with the new design for the re-launch. I am very excited about the re-launch and all of the great feedback I received on the new design.

The Wild West Playing Cards campaign offers 2 different decks: Lawmen and Outlaw. Printed by the United States Playing Card Co., each deck will have different tuck boxes, different back designs and different court cards for each deck.

Pledge starts at $13 and add-ons such as handmade playing card cigar style box, dealer coin and poker chips are available. Head on over to the campaign on Kickstarter to wrangle up the Lawmen and Outlaw decks.

Card Radar: Papilio Ulysses Playing Cards From Murphy's Magic

Inspired by the beauty of the butterfly, designer Kiran Kuruvithadam has created the Papilio Playing Cards to bring the beauty and elegance of the butterfly to your fingertips. The design goal is to come up with a design that is familiar and fresh.

There's so much to like about Papilio Ulysses Playing Cards! The deck features gorgeous illustrated courts with gold and green metallic inks, semi-custom pips, a beautifully crafted Ace of Spades, eye-catching card backs with thin borders and a simple but elegantly designed tuck.

Ulysses is the third version of Papilio and it has been enhanced with the working magicians in mind. Hence, the cards are crafted to feel and look great in performances.

The Aces are slightly bigger and the familiar design of the faces allows the cards to be easily recognizable by spectators, making them very presentable. Also included in the deck is a double-backer and a duplicate card.

The deck will be printed by the United States Playing Cards Company on their best available stock with air-cushion finish. Available right now from your favorite Murphy’s Magic retailer!

Kickstarter: 7 Questions with Marco of Sub Rosa Playing Cards

From the team at cardsxiii, Sub Rosa is a charming deck of playing cards with artwork designed in a watercolor style texture. Currently funding on Kickstarter, the deck features a beautiful hand-drawn watercolor two-way back design with floral themes on a contrasting navy blue background, standard card faces updated with watercolor textures, beautiful custom Jokers and Ace of Spades. The deck is housed in tuck box with intentionally muted color tone to differ from the slightly more vibrant back design while preserving the similarities of each element.

We had a quick chat with Marco, one of the members at cardsxii and asked him about his group, the inspiration & design process behind the Sub Rosa playing cards and his favorite deck of playing cards.

For those of us who don’t know, tell us a little about yourself and cardsxiii?
cardsxiii (Instagram: @cardsxiii) was created more than a year ago on Instagram as a community of card lovers. We started by posting photos of our favorite decks, but soon after we switched to reposting amazing magic and cardistry videos which people submit to us. Today we are a huge community with over 20,000 members from all around the world.

What is your inspiration behind the Sub Rosa Playing Cards? How did you come up with the idea?
There were a lot of inspirations for this deck. Firstly, we wanted secrecy to be the idea for the deck. Being magicians, we like the idea of doing secret sleight of hand moves without spectator's knowledge. So we’ve chosen the name "Sub rosa”, which is Latin for “under the rose” and is used to describe secrecy. We’ve chosen the rose theme for the design of the cards in order to match the deck name. Also, we absolutely love the watercolor brush style, so we’ve decided to combine both ideas to create this design.

How much time did you spend working on the deck?
We’ve been working on the deck since March of this year. We didn’t want to rush it, so we took our time in order to design and perfect every single element of it. Also, we’ve gone through a lot of trial and error; if we weren’t a 100% happy with the entirety of the deck we’d redesign it and re-order the prototypes, even if it means waiting two to three weeks for them to arrive.

Talk to us a bit about going from the first draft to the final version. How did you get to this finished product?
The final result is worlds apart from the first draft. We’ve done a lot of experiments with the design: even the smallest idea would be further developed to see if it would be a good addition to the deck. For example, in the late stages of design, the deck even had a small hidden story in it. However, we’ve decided to remove it because we weren’t fully happy. Also, we’ve drastically changed the direction the design of the deck several times, which set us back a little but we are happier with what we’ve accomplished.

What was your most brilliant breakthrough when designing the deck?
While designing the deck, we’ve encountered a number of obstacles and much of them seemed impossible to overcome; sometimes we’d run out of ideas or we wouldn’t know how to bring them to reality. Overcoming each one of those obstacles was a big breakthrough for us. We’d be stuck at one point for a long time and finally finding the solution and continuing to move forward felt really great.

With so many playing card projects competing for funding, why should potential backers choose your deck?
We’ve noticed that a lot of today's decks are taking the minimalistic art direction. Just to be clear, we don’t think this is bad, in fact, we like the design of most of these decks. However, we do feel that our deck is more different than others and that it freshens things up the world of playing cards as well as in our potential backers’ collections.

Finally, what are your favorite playing cards?
Even though there are a lot of beautiful decks to choose from, I have to say that my favorite deck of playing cards is the classic blue Monarchs deck by Theory11. It has been my favorite since I’ve gotten into cards about five years ago. The design is just breathtaking. They really did a great job on it. Hopefully one day we’ll be able to create a deck that will match what they did with this deck.

Thank you for your time, Marco and all the best! At the time of writing, the project is 37% funded with 31 days to go. If want to support Sub Rosa Playing Cards, you can find it on Kickstarter here.


Pledge starts at €10 (~USD$12) and the deck will be printed by the USPCC.

Deck View: Cultura Playing Cards

Culture. Retro. Adorable.

Cultura Playing Cards are an adorable deck of cards inspired by the different cultures of the world. Designed by Mankin Chan, the deck is fully custom, with unique artwork on all 54 cards in a retro flat designed style. Each suit represents a different country: Spades - Italy, Clubs - USA, Diamonds - China and Hearts - Netherlands. The colorful mirrored design of the backs are typically retro and decorated with the four suits.

Also, each of the court cards are custom in traditional clothing and the standard fifty-two cards are used to represent a cultural category, such as drinks, sports, transport etc... Exemplify the uniqueness of this deck. The tuck box features a Linen feel, which matches the Elite Finish paper stock. Printed by Legends Playing Cards Co. Available now from Legends.

For more cool decks, check out JP Games.