Less Than 4 Days on Kickstarter! Legionary Playing Cards

Designer Jody Eklund from Black Ink Branded has released another playing cards project on Kickstarter. The latest deck, Legionary Playing Cards revolves around the history of ancient Rome, focusing on the Roman warriors.

The Ace of Spades featured a big pip encasing the emblem of an eagle with a big sword wrapped with a banner bearing the Latin phrase: “Fortuna Audaces Iuvat”, roughly translated “Fortune favors the brave”. The numbered pips feature customized pips as well as customized pips arrangement within a squared frame.

The back design for the cards featured a two-way design of the Roman emblem of an eagle hovering behind a sword complete with filigrees on the background within a framed border.

The court cards featured warriors equipped with armors and weapons, illustrated based on the historical references – the figures are in full-body illustrations and breaking the bordered frame. The Jokers feature a diptych illustration of a Roman gladiator riding on a chariot pulled by two horses.

There are at least three editions of the deck: Dawn – Day – Dusk. In Dawn edition, the tuck box uses premium paper stock with black and bronze hot foil stamp and strategic 3D embossing – the cards only use CMYK ink.

In the Day edition, the tuck box uses premium paper stock with bronze and blue hot foil stamp and strategic 3D embossing, featuring a circular frame showing a Roman soldier’s helmet – the cards use full foiling. In the Dusk edition, the tuck box uses a handmade vintage black leather tuck with heavily detailed 3D embossing – the cards use cold foil technology along with bronze gilded edges.

The cards will be printed by Legends Playing Cards Co. on premium casino grade stock with classic finish. Pledges start at $17 on Kickstarter.

Kings Wild Releases The Iliad Playing Cards To Public

Kings Wild Project continues the literature playing cards series with Iliad playing cards. The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer. Written around the 8th century B.C. is considered one of the oldest works of Western literature.

The poem, written in dactylic hexameter, contains 15,693 lines and encompasses 24 books. The poem is set during the Trojan War, where the Achaeans engage with the city of Troy in a ten-year battle. 

The fully custom deck pays tribute to the epic poem with beautiful artwork… from the mirrored card backs, Ace of Spades, to the court cards and the diptych Jokers. All the face cards come with borders and frames colored according to the traditional red/black colors of their respective suits. 

The terracotta-styled courts depict characters from the poem in all their glory- Achilles, Zeus, Hector, Hera, Athena, and more!

The cards come with a natural clay-like colorway, making them look aged yet elegant. Unlike the deck inside, the tuck comes in a black/white color combo prominently featuring Greek design element.

The deck is available NOW on kingswildproject.com for $18.

Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary of Fulton's Chinatown With This Limited Edition Deck!

The 10 Year Anniversary of Fulton’s Chinatown playing cards is here in a special “Fulton Orange” Colorway. Chinatown was originally released for Chinese New Year in 2012 to celebrate the birth of Brad Fulton‘s daughter, and the Year of the Dragon. This is a celebration of Los Angeles Chinatown, a place Fulton spent many years frequenting.

The striking deck features artwork by Daniel Phillips and sports a black line art on Fulton Orange colorway. Tuck Box is foil-stamped orange on black matte thick box paper and letterpress printed by Clove St. in San Diego. Limited to 999 decks.

Available now on fultonsplayingcards.com for $18.88.

Market Manipulation Playing Cards on Kickstarter

Marco Luzi, the man behind Lune Playing Cards has released a rather interesting thematic deck that explores the world of economics, especially in the scope of stock trading. Marco has once again collaborated with graphic designer Pennypine to produce Market Manipulation Playing Cards, a deck that manipulates the economic outcomes. The deck is currently funding on Kickstarter.

The deck series comes in two editions, based on the two main sides of a stocks trading world – Bull Edition and Bear Edition. The Bull represents the optimistic view of the market, having a green color scheme with artworks of a bull. The tuck box for Bull Edition has premium matte green stock with petroleum green and gold foiling. The Bear represents the pessimistic view of the market, having a red color scheme with artworks of a bear. The tuck box for Bear Edition has premium matte rose-red stock with ruby red and silver foiling. Both tuck boxes will be produced by Boschiero & Newton.

The card back design is a classic two-way back design that features intricate borders and four-leaf flowers on the corners. The color and animal vary based on the deck editions. The Aces feature customized pip artwork – Ace of Spades featured the two iconic animals facing each other, while the other Aces are surrounded with items that tell the story of the characters presented in the courts.

The Jokers show three animals: the goose, the bear, and the bull – if the two Jokers showed side by side, you can see the geese facing each other, while the bull and the bear face one another in an intense fight – just like how the stock market fluctuates.

The courts are all customized, retaining hints from the classical courts. All of the courts in the deck show different kinds of characters with their own backstory. Each suit represents the four types and stereotypical departments of a traditional bank: Investment Banking (Clubs) – Trading (Hearts) – Quantitative Analysis (Spades) – Sales (Diamonds).

For the Bear Edition, the courts are presented as two-way traditional courts. As for the Bull Edition, the courts are full-length body illustrations in intricate borders. According to the story in the deck, all of these characters worked in a fictional bank.

Pledge starts from $17 for a single deck of your choosing OR $34 for a complete two-deck set on Kickstarter.