Awesome Cards

Keep your day organized without depending on technology. Ugmonk’s Analog system includes daily to-do list cards and a card holder that keeps today’s card propped up. The starter kit includes a steel holder, thirty Today cards, two Next cards, one Someday card, and a divider to separate new and completed cards. They also make a hardwood version.

This reference card is a handy tool for helping you learn the piano. The card is engraved with diagrams showing finger placement for essential chords, along with a key-to-note guide and a visual chart of notes and rests. It’s made from durable stainless steel and comes with a leather carrying sleeve.

The 50 illustrated cards in The Mushroom Compendium (by London’s Kew Royal Botanic Gardens) reveal scientific, cultural, and fantastical details about individual species. Identify the botanical traits of ‘shrooms like ballerina wax caps, barbie pagodas, and stinkhorns. Sections cover micro/macro, saprobe, symbiotic, parasite, useful, weird, and rare.

The Cardyhedron offers a unique spin on dice, providing a complete set of tabletop gaming dice in a pocket-sized card. The metal card has six smooth-spinning dials, including d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20. Just give a dial a spin and see what number it lands on. The cards will come in several colors and each includes a handsome leather carrying case.

Artist Chet Phillips is back with more wonderfully illustrated playing cards. His latest deck is a must-have for any cat lover. These unique cards feature 58 kitties inspired by pop culture, historical figures, and other colorful characters. Some of our faves are Frida Khalico, Catsquatch, and Cathulhu. There’s an original image on every card, not just the face cards.

This modern metal wallet keeps cards organized and easy to access with a mechanism that fans cards out like a deck of cards. It holds cards securely and has RFID blocking and a quick-draw slot for the cards you use most. It holds up to six cards inside and eight with its add-on silicone pouch. It’s also got a removable money clip and an optional AirTag holder.

The wallet-friendly Komi Sketch Ruler helps you draw perfectly spaced lines, circles, angles, and more. It works in mm, inch, 150 / 300 dpi px, and pica scales and has conversion formulas on its face. It also doubles as a straight edge for cutting and a paper clip. It’s made from FR-4, the same sturdy material used in printed circuit boards.

Sun Company’s stainless steel luggage tag not only labels your bag, but packs a bunch of handy functions for everyday tasks. It comes with a leather strap and includes Phillips and flathead screwdrivers, nine sizes of hex wrenches, a spoke wrench, an inch ruler, a pry tool, and a bottle opener.

The LEGO How We Create deck was created by builders, designers, and other LEGO team members to help inspire creative thought. It includes 78 cards featuring images of LEGO bricks, quotes, and building prompts. The deck is divided into five categories – Motivation, Inspiration, Memories & Mentors, Challenges & Obstacles, and LEGO Core Values.

This “pro” version of the popular Wallet Ninja tool card crams 26 functions into a wallet-friendly EDC. Tools include a bottle opener, nail puller, metric square, protractor, ruler, hex head wrenches, and hex bolt and drill bit guides. Though it is missing a couple of features from the Wallet Ninja 2.0.

The latest version of Grim Workshop’s Hot Shot wallet card packs everything you need to get a fire started. It includes a sharp knife for trimming leaves, a saw for cutting small branches, a ferrocerium and magnesium fire-starting bar, a pry bar, and even tweezers in case you get a splinter. Kickstarter buyers also get a free tinder card to help stoke the flames.

This laser-engraved stainless steel card is packed with reference information for scientists. Its front side has the periodic table of the elements, along with rulers and a protractor, while its back offers up quick access to important constants, formulas, and conversions. There are also versions for chemistry, engineering, and physics.

From burning the cookies to forgetting to put booze in the Egg Nog, the holidays are filled with minor disasters. But these Xmas cards from Calamityware imagine bigger catastrophes like evil snowmen, tentacle monsters, and deadly alien spores. The message inside says “You can’t escape the holiday spirit.” Sold in a 20-pack.

Can’t keep up with today’s youth? It’s time to beef up your language skills with this informative deck of Slang Flashcards. Each of its 40 cards features a frequently-used slang word on one side, and an example of its use on the other. We recommend them a Hundo P.

Grim Workshop’s wallet card includes a useful array of tools to help you start a campfire. In addition to its scraper bar, its thick, high-carbon steel card can be struck against its ferrocerium bar to get sparks going. It also packs a magnesium bar to increase heat, a choice of three different blades, a file, and a saw.

People are always looking for compliments and praise. When you’re at a loss for words, draw a Take a Compliment card, any card, and cross your fingers they’ll laugh at jabs like “Your attractiveness more than makes up for your personality.” Half of the 200 cards are friendly-ish. The others are fiendishly backhanded.