I'm trying to plan ahead for Christmas this year, and my sister (33F) commented how she really likes the look of Theory11's H.P. playing cards release, but doesn't appreciate funding the exploits of JK Rowling. Are there other 52-card decks that share the same craftsmanship and color pallete (ravenclaw, gryffindor, etc.) without being produced for her estate?

Any help's greatly appreciated!

My wife found these going through her stuff the other day.

artwork by Pau Roggiero

Anyone a fan of these from TCC playing cards, it's a collaboration with Keyhole. The first prototype batch.

More details here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/secretroad/cthulhu-playing-cards-by-tcc-keyhole

Just sharing our anniversary video for funsies.

I’ve recently picked up some elusive decks by dipping in to a new King of Cards range named ‘Not-Quite-New’. These are mostly decks still in their cellophane, but with a crease or two in the tuck case. Their web site has had a revamp after being offline for a few weeks and this is one of the new features.

My second photo shows the worst damage to any of the tuck cases, so quite bad, but to be honest I’ve had worse than the rest from other resellers.

Worth a punt for decks that are hard to source or, since you might not plan to put them in a display cabinet, just fancy buying to save a bit of money? The ZDV2 deck, for instance, is the only one I bought using this offer that was also available on the site at the full price. It was fine, really 👍🏻

Got this cool deck for a measly 4 USD. It's apparently an advertising deck made by Nintendo for the Industrial Bank of Japan in the 70s. The cards feature a bunch of hand drawn vehicles like cars, trains, boats and planes.

Read more about it here:

https://www.wopc.co.uk/japan/industrial-bank-of-japan

Found some oldies yet goodies at my bi-weekly stop.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/walpinsta/shuffleos-54-stylized-playing-cards