Awesome Cards

Hokey mysticism meets pasty nerdology with this pack of 78 8-Bit Tarot Cards; based on the Rider-Waite Deck, each is designed at 88 x 152 pixels using the 9-bit Mac OS color palette.

Formerly distributed exclusively to casinos, these Bee Stingers playing cards are now available on premium Aristocrat stock; they sport faded white borders to prevent cheating.

It’s probably not the best idea to build your fortress like a deck of cards, but this Castle-themed House of Cards puts all your kings, queens and jokers in their proper place–on the inside.

Forget humanity’s survival: gear up for an assault on your wallets with this Terminator Salvation card set; it’ll include 90 base cards and random embossed foil and pop-up battle cards.

Topps’ 3D Live Baseball Cards are our favorite commercial use of augmented reality tech so far; control one of 32 MLB players in 3D just by holding the card in front of your webcam.

For their Star Wars Galaxy Series 4 trading cards, TOPPS has collaborated with dozens of artists to create over 3,000 one-of-a-kind trooper-shaped sketches; buy one per box here.

In addition to card decks like Propaganda, we didn’t realize theory11 also has a library of magic tricks; their latest is called BLIND by danielMadison, a prediction plot with two different decks.

There aren’t just any playing cards: they’re by the Black Rock Collective, a group of 36 international artists. The first batch of 150 sold out in a day, so be sure to get on their mailing list.

The result of a collaboration between theory11 and WA007, these Propaganda playing cards not only fan and snap well but feature fresh, military-style artwork ala Shepard Fairey.