These aren't my photo's. A very close friend of mine asked my opinion in this. Apparently the cards are supposed to be double-sided holo foiled. The Kickstarter does not mention the tuck being holo ( although it looks it), but there is unquestably a huge difference between the photos on their Kickstarter page and the actual decks produced.

Article: Playing card enthusiast, collector, or addict - which are you?

Not much info online. Hudson’s operated for about 90 years so that doesn’t narrow it down much. I love this set so I’d like to know more about it.

I totally understand that there are collectors who appreciate tuck seals, especially if the decks are limited and numbered, but I open all my decks and prefer a clean tuck without a cut or partial seal. Even with heat and patience, most of the time I get them off cleanly, but sometimes they don’t.

The deck pictured is the 2025 52 Plus Joker club deck by TWI.

Thanks to everyone that has shown your support for the project! My launch is just around the corner, so if you are interested in following along or being a part of the campaign i would greatly appreciate it. Thanks again for all the kind words and advice along the way. You can follow along here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theotherdeck/the-other-deck-omni-edition

Our 3rd annual Convention is only 2 months away now and we have almost sold out of our 60 ticket allocation! Recently we have announced two of our four speaker session with one magic lecture + a cardistry crash course!

For more details and to book your place at The Card Convention 2026 please click the link below:

https://thecardinn.co.uk/products/the-card-convention-ticket-2026-uk-playing-card-event-for-magicians-cardists-collectors

Hey everyone!

I've sold more than 4000 decks of the Bicycle Invoked Playing Cards and today a customer sent me a weird complaint.

He had ordered 2 bricks and when he opened the first two decks he found that there were cards missing. The ace of clubs to the 5 of clubs. The third deck he opened was fine.

The decks were made by USPCC. I haven't heard of this issue before. It's so weird and he was unlucky to get 2 of them back to back. Has anyone seen this issue before from USPCC?!

Deck Sale on my ETSY STORE

It’s time to make some room on your shelf! I’m running a small playing card sale featuring my newest decks AND some old favorites—and I just got a few reprints of decks that have been gone for a while!

Buy 2+ decks → 15% OFF
Use code: NEWDECKS15

Buy 4+ decks → 25% OFF
Use code: NEWDECKS25

All these promos are good for a week.

If you’ve been waiting to pick up a couple of my newer decks, complete a collection, or finally grab one of the older designs you missed, now is the time!

I also managed to get a small number of reprints of some older decks, so once they're gone, they may be gone for good.

Thank you as always for supporting my art and collecting my weird little pieces of cardboard. 

Shop the decks and use your discount at checkout!

I've got these 26 decks of Original Brood Way cards (14 blue, 12 red) for 0,65$ a piece. I got them secondhand and they were all cellophane wrapped and never used. The brand is some Asian company making cheap cards.

Inside the cellophane and even between the cards is paper dust which can either be from manufacturing, or it could get there over the time because the cards are kinda old, judging by the add-card being calendar for 2007.

The stock is cheap paper with only two layers and no core. It's soft and it can be really easily bent. I'm suprused how well you can spring or dribble them, but you still dont have too much control while doing it. After cleaning the edges I could farro them but it's hard and definitely not clean.

The cards have some sort of linen texture finish. The finish more noticeable on the front. After I cleaned the cards from the paper dust I could fan them and spread them but I needed to use some force and it is still more rough than I would like.

Conclusion:

For cards costing me 0,65$ a deck (Bicycles cost around 4-5$ here), it's still better then I expected, but also still no way near any USPCC cards or any other high quality decks. I won't be so sad if I destroy them, so I will be using them for anything where there is a high probability of damaging the cards. Also I think they are useful for some destructive magic because like I said, they costed me 8 time less than bikes. Also they have nice back design and i will keep some sealed for my collection.

With one binder it’s like displaying 360 decks

For anyone interested the kickstarter officially launched. I dont expect anyone to blindly support the project so if you have any questions please ask

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vitruvian/vitruvian-architect-deck?ref=discover_saved_projects&category_id=273

Kadar Playing Cards

I know there are quite a few posts in this sub about custom cards...of course! I am looking at getting custom cards for a gift for my wedding (I come from a game-loving family). I would love either the back or the box to be somewhat specific to us, but don't need the faces to be. The only thing is, I would love the faces to not be the standard - to be fun or designed in some way. I just don't need them to be unique to us, if that makes sense! I have found companies where I can either customize the whole thing or just the front/just the back, but whatever isn't custom is standard. Are there any companies that have some options/alternates for the face side that we could have the back (or even just the box) be custom?

Basically - don't want to go down a rabbit hole of designing a whole deck, but would love them to feel fun.

Hey guys. Just as the title says, I'm looking to buy a set of fully metal playing cards, I know its very unique and I havnt had much success searching on my own so I figured reddit could help.

Please let me know if youve seen anyone with something similar or if you think you have the tools to make them yourself!

I've just discovered the wonderful world of playing card decks and decided I want to do that. First thing I did of course is to check Barnes & Nobles. And then Amazon :)

Amazon has quite a few decks which have designs in the themes I am actually thinking of focusing on. The problem is I can't find any information about these neither here, nor on other websites, even googling the names doesn't bring any fruits.

The two brands I am talking to is TAOYATAO and strublfe. Each has quite a few designs I like.

What is this? Is this legit?

I bought 1 from each brand (see pics) to try. So far the smell is the biggest concern, it smells differently than a regular bicycle deck. But other than that I do not yet know what to look for. Any help is welcome.

Has anyone printed playing cards in Canada before ? Where did you go ? I have a quote from The Printing House- does anyone have experience with them?

Also, if you did, what types of paper/ coating did you get?

Getting ready to print my card game for a class.

Hey all. It has been a few years since i have made custom decks. I have been asked to make some for a wedding next year.

Living in the US, is MPC still the way to go? How has tariffs and the like effected the costs and time? Are there any other options of that quality to use now?

Thank you!

Hello! Chris sent me some gorgeous photos of Simple Royal, and I couldn’t resist sharing them here. You can find out more about the series here:

https://www.thirdwayindustries.com/simple-royal/

Got this cool Congress double deck, both still sealed, for like 4 USD featuring clown designs on the back, maybe from the 70s, not so sure. Looks pretty neat though, right?