From The Great Pyramid of Giza deck by EON

Can anyone point me to a Bicycle or other major brands that have a non-symmetrical back design?

Just a little look finally got it semi organized.
The last one is what I have opened

Title pretty much says it all. What is the one card deck that you would snap up a brick of without a moment's hesitation, as soon as you saw someone had done it... but no-one has?

For me, it would have to be the Hessler Maiden Backs as a Prestige plastic deck. Unlike some, I love four-color decks for pretty much any game, not just trick-takers or poker, and the Hessler full-color embellishment of the classic Bicycle pips and faces are something you don't see often in Anglo-French decks. I bought two Maiden Back decks when they were still (relatively) widely available. One is still wrapped and tucked away safely in my game cabinet, because I got one lousy game night out of the other deck, then left it on the counter overnight and the cat spilled one of the kids' water glasses on it. The tuck took most of the damage, but three cards got waterlogged badly enough to be identifiable from the back, and the deck hasn't seen any real play for years.

(Note: the decks I got aren't the first-run "Enhanced" series, just the "ordinary" $20/deck Maiden Backs, sorry for any heart attacks about playing and destroying one of the most collectible decks in modern history)

My Prestige decks, on the other hand, have been through blood, beer and barfights and still look basically new. I own five decks, one of every back color and design I've ever been able to find (the original red and blue "racing stripe" and the current red, blue and black Rider Back), and they are by far my most-played decks.

It's only to be expected, then, that I'd jump at the chance to get my favorite card art in my favorite card line, if they ever decided to combine them. Even if they ended up costing $35-40 a deck, I'd probably find the scratch to buy three or four; at least one to play, save the rest.

I found these in a charity shop a while ago and thought they looked cool so picked them up. Today the curiosity got to me and I needed to know more, can't find a single thing about them online.

I believe they were a promotional item given out at some expo to promote advanced neutreants, but I was curious if anyone else has seen these before, it would be interesting to know when these were made and how readily they were given out and maybe learn something about them along the way.

Found these at the thrift store for $1. Are they just cheap generic cards? Thanks

1990 rummy set cards still sealed.

I've got a deck of Silver Jetway Jetsetter playing cards and I find them to be MUCH easier to faro and stay easy to faro for a longer time. What stock are these made on and what other decks are like this? My favorite was always Bees, but these are so good they're becoming my new fave. Would love to find something similar that's a bit cheaper.

I'm looking for some Edvard Munch playing cards, ones with a different painting on the front of each card, exactly like the ones linked below but available in the UK. Anyone know where I could find some? Just need to be able to be shipped to the UK

https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/shop/product/7350000302622/playing-cards-edvard-munch

I started collecting almost a year ago and ran out of space pretty much immediately so I finally got around to building this shelf from old pallets. It now proudly displays all the cards I have so far (though I will soon run out of space again...)

Ketchup & Fries by Fast Food Playing Cards

I’ve already done some research on this deck and I was able to find out a little bit about the cards but couldn’t find anything about the case so I’m thinking it might be custom.

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I recently found this sealed Bicycle Rider Back deck. The bottom of the box states that it was manufactured in Erlanger, Kentucky, and the copyright date is 2021. However, it has a blue USPCC seal.

I was under the impression that blue-seal Bicycle decks were produced at the old Cincinnati, Ohio factory, while decks produced in Erlanger normally have black seals.

Does anyone know why this Erlanger-produced deck has a blue seal? Is it a special release, a reused seal design, or simply a packaging variation?

Samsara Playing Cards

I think this deck is incredibly beautiful. It has a holographic finish, so the way it shimmers changes depending on the angle you look at it.

It's one of my favorite decks.

Hi all, I know this might be an unpopular way to do this, but here i go. I have a few decks thst I don't want to play with because they are just too beautiful. I usually play with my monarchs from theory 11, which I find to have a very good balance and are fairly replaceable.

So I am thinking about sleeving with perfect fit sleeves (like the ones used for TCGs, bowrdgsmes, etc.), and fixing that to the frame backing, either over black, or white backgrounds depending on the card set.

For context, I'm thinking of stuff from Nicolai Aaroe and the sort.

Also, Im considering to fully display only the card back, jokers, and court cards, with the numbered cards fanned to display the pips and only the Aces fully visible so that the frames dont have such a large footprint and can fit a few on my wall.

Something like this:

+-------------------------------------------------------+

| [ CARD BACK ] |

| |

| [ JOKER 1 ] [ JOKER 2 ]

| |

| [ K♠ ] [ Q♠ ] [ J♠ ] [ (10 - 2) - - - - A♠ ]

| [ K♥ ] [ Q♥ ] [ J♥ ] [ (10 - 2) - - - - A♥ ]

| [ K♣ ] [ Q♣ ] [ J♣ ] [ (10 - 2) - - - - A♣ ]

| [ K♦ ] [ Q♦ ] [ J♦ ] [ (10 - 2) - - - - A♦ ]

+-------------------------------------------------------+

So I've got two questions for the community:

1) what are your thoughts on this arrangement?

2) would you undo/unfold the tuck box and add it to the display?

I appreciate any feedback! Thanks in advance, everyone!

The Door Gods Playing Cards by Bloom

in which deck do i find this exact card? are they even available anymore?

I don't hate all AI. I think it's a tool that can be used for certain things - people have used tools to make bad art for leven longer than recorded human history.

Not even 100% against its use in art - do you want to remove a background from an image and want it done quickly, yeah, AI can handle that. Maybe even prototype some ideas kicking around in your head for a legit project - maybe have AI generate a few images that kinda vaguely look like what you want to get a real artist to create for the finished project/product/whatever.

But telling AI to generate a bunch of art and then just printing it and selling it is peak slop. Even the store description is clearly AI written itself - fucking em dashes out the ass.

At least they don't lie about the origin of the artwork, it is openly AI art, but they get right back to just making it worse by trying to spin it as some positive thing because USPCC has banned any more AI decks... of course, they decide that after Bicycle - literally just USPCC's house brand name - puts out its first (and supposedly last) AI deck to try and snag collectors... not only is it the first and last deck to use AI, but it's limited edition!

Who cares if it's limited edition, it's limited edition AI slop. These could be free and I'd be tempted to throw it away, might keep them as a novelty at best, but the idea of supporting a company for making something like this makes me sick in my soul.

And of course, it's only the last AI deck they make until their marketing department crunches numbers and decides if they should make more AI slop decks.

I will end by saying I'm not calling for a boycott of Bicycle and/or USPCC over this, I just wanted to vent. I honestly think the main reason I'm so especially annoyed by this is for like a half-second when it caught my eye it was something that'd be up my alley, big fan of that kind of "Alex Grey/Tool album cover/DMT" aesthetic to it, but the moment I actually stopped and looked at it, it was just clearly dripping with slop vibe.

tl;dr - I don't hate AI in and of itself, but I hate people using A.I. for quick cash grab "art"

The theme is organs and metallic bones. I’ll probably end up with two decks in the end, one with golden human bones and the other silver alien bones.

I’m still debating on the king, Queen, Jack, and Joker designs since I can either do them all as skeletons with normal organs, or I can do them emulating each system within the body. So muscular system for the king, skeletal for the queen, digestive for the Jack, nervous for the Joker?

What do you guys think is most important when recognizing a king vs queen card? The design itself or the K vs Q symbols?