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Kings Wild Project Crayon Playing Cards

Kings Wild Project Crayon Playing Cards
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These playful playing cards from Kings Wild Project feature a design inspired by a box of crayons. Their packaging looks like a vintage Crayola box, while the face cards and suit markers appear to have been colored in with crayons. The deck also includes a photorealistic card that looks like seven crayons to stack at the top of your deck.

The Cat’s Meow Playing Cards

The Cat’s Meow Playing Cards
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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.

Sushi Playing Cards

Sushi Playing Cards

These playful playing cards from magician Bao Hoang’s company BAOBAO Restaurant are the perfect deck for sushi lovers. The box art is designed to look like a bento box full of sushi, while each card is decorated with artwork inspired by delicious Japanese meals – and the royal court is chowing down. Choose from salmon or tuna nigiri card backs.

Bicycle Stargazer Playing Cards

Bicycle Stargazer Playing Cards
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These space-themed playing cards are noteworthy for their starfield background and inverted images, suits, and numbers. Their backs feature a blue and purple figure-8 galaxy design, and they come packed in a sparkly tuck box with silver foil. Like all Bicycle cards, they’re printed on premium cardstock with an air-cushion finish for smooth shuffling.

Neko Samurai Playing Cards

Neko Samurai Playing Cards
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These beautiful playing cards from Neversleep Co feature imagery of cats dressed in samurai armor. Each face card illustrates a different feline warrior, equipped with swords and other accessories surrounded by flourishes. The number cards have unique geometric patterns. Add-ons include poker chips, enamel pins, and a red deck as a stretch goal.

Leather Playing Card Case

Leather Playing Card Case
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Ready to throw down in a game of Go Fish? Carry your favorite playing card deck in this handsome leather case from Misc Goods Co. It’s made in the USA from vegetable-tanned leather, hand-stitched with waxed cotton thread and comes packed Misc’s Black deck, featuring crisp line-art illustrations, black backs, and a black-and-gold tuck case.

Unshuffling a Deck of Cards

Unshuffling a Deck of Cards

Magician Nate Jester shows off a neat card trick by Paul Gertner in which he takes a shuffled deck and then progressively unshuffles it into suits and then puts the entire deck back in suit and numerical order. For added flourish, the word “UNSHUFFLED” gradually appears on the edge of the cards. Here’s the same trick performed for a live audience.

Theory11 x Star Trek Playing Cards

Theory11 x Star Trek Playing Cards
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Celebrate your love for Star Trek with these official playing cards, artfully designed by Theory11. The cards come packed in a dark or light silver-foiled tuck box, with illustrations of Starfleet officers from The Original Series and the latest Trek movies on each face card. The backs have a symmetrical pattern inspired by the original Enterprise NCC-1701.

Theory11 x Outkast Playing Cards

Theory11 x Outkast Playing Cards
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Hey, Ya! Playing card company, Theory11 teamed up with beloved duo Outkast to create this fantastic deck. The cards come packed in a red velvet box with gold foil artwork, and their backs are decorated with woodcuts of speakers, UFOs, and Cadillacs. The card fronts are illustrated with custom artwork of André 3000, Big Boi, and references to their music.

Survival Playing Cards

Survival Playing Cards
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Bradley Mountain craftsman and designer Andrew Nguyen illustrated this unique deck of playing cards featuring 52 brief survival tips. Each deck is printed in the U.S. with a gold foil letterpress box. Pre-orders start shipping on 11.22.2023, in time for holiday gift-giving. It’s also available in a charcoal version.

World’s Largest Playing Card Structure

World’s Largest Playing Card Structure

Arnav Daga set his sights on breaking the record for the largest playing card structure ever, and he’s now achieved his goal. This 143,000 card construction took Arnav 41 days to build and includes four iconic landmarks from Kolkata, India, including the Shaheed Minar, St Paul’s Cathedral, Salt Lake Stadium, and Writer’s Building. We’re just glad nobody sneezed.

Eternal Order of the Fez Playing Cards

Eternal Order of the Fez Playing Cards
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Kings Wild Project makes original playing cards with artful designs. The Eternal Order of the Fez deck is illustrated with intricate imagery inspired by a vintage Shriner’s deck. The tuck case and cards are embellished with conical red hats, scimitars, camels, snakes, stars, and the number 13.

Varius Playing Cards

Varius Playing Cards
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These artful playing cards from Montenzi feature imagery inspired by the ancient Roman tile floors. Their backs have tiled patterns, while their fronts reveal shapes and images with the well-worn look of millions of footsteps. They come in a greenish-grey classic edition and Purple and Teal limited editions. A three-color bundle is also available.

Theory11 Beatles Playing Cards

Theory11 Beatles Playing Cards
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Beatles fans will adore these colorful playing cards from Theory11. The box set of four decks is illustrated with vibrant, psychedelic designs inspired by the Fab Four. The boxes and Kings are based on John, Paul, George, and Ringo’s look from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, while the other face cards feature not-so-subtle callbacks to classic Beatles songs.

Automatic Card Dealing Robot

Automatic Card Dealing Robot
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This magical machine from China takes on the duties of a playing card dealer. Set it in the center of your table, tell it how many players you have and how many cards they should each get, and it does the rest. It can also deal community cards. Holds two decks and deals to up to eight players.

Eames Starburst Playing Cards

Eames Starburst Playing Cards
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Art of Play teamed up with The Eames Office to create this playing card deck that embraces the mid-century modern aesthetic of Charles and Ray Eames. A geometric numbering system pays tribute to the duo’s film Powers of Ten, while the card backs feature the Eames’ signature starburst. Designed by Dan and Dave.

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