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🂡  Deck  of the  Day  --  July 29th, 2020  🃁 Calelum & Azure - Thirdway Industries The Calelum & Azure Playing Cards by Thirdway Industries is the newest edition of Pantheon with its stunning new colors and metallic inks. This latest release comes with two new decks for $83 USD on their website for pre-order which will be ready by October of 2020. Thirdway Industries is the designer of some other fan-favorite decks such as Modern Idols and Betrayers Playing Cards. This is an exciting new addition to some of this designer's beautiful collection of decks. Side by Side Comparisons of Previous ( Left ) Card Designs to Current ( Right ):        

🂡  Deck  of the  Day  --  July 27th, 2020  🃁 Shiba Segaiha  The Shiba Segaiha Playing Cards designed by Marcus Mak is a design inspired by everyone's favorite Japanese cultural icon, the Shiba Inu dog breed. The geometric pattern is beautifully incorporated with the cartoon figure and minimalist pip design. This deck will surely satisfy any Cardistry connoisseur as the flourish makes for a brilliant, aesthetically pleasing fan. The price for this deck will be $10 USD for one deck on their Kickstarter along with other special rewards offered for purchasing two decks or more. Be sure to follow this Kickstarter and pledge before Tuesday, August 18th if you love this new design!    

🂡  Deck  of the  Day  --  July 24th, 2020  🃁 NOC Colorgades -- Desert Orange and Tropic Green   The NOC Colorgades Desert Orange  and Tropic Green  decks were designed exclusively for Art of Play . This one-of-a-kind black tuck box showcases the beautiful gradient orange and green cards with its ace of spades and small-circle cut-outs. The play on colors and contrast with these decks is what makes this series by NOC truly unique and aesthetically pleasing. You can grab one or both of these decks on Art of Play's website for just $10 USD per deck. This deal won't be around for long as these decks are limited edition!       

🂡  Deck  of the  Day  --  July 22nd, 2020  🃁 Blue Metallic Gatorbacks The Blue Metallic Gatorbacks by David Blaine is a deck that everyone's been talking about in the card collecting community. This new edition, and fan favorite, comes with white and blue foil on the tuck case and blue MetalLuxe printed on the cards. This design is truly stunning from the inside out... a perfect deck to display with the rest of your Cardistry decks... that is, if you don't mind this deck stealing the show from all the others. Don't wait too long to get your hands on this new deck... they're currently priced at $20.00 USD on their website, and I expect they will soon be sold out in the coming months. You can check out more deck designs by David Blaine here .

🂡  Deck  of the  Day  --  July 20th, 2020  🃁 Malibu v2 Playing Cards Malibu v2 Playing Cards by Gemini will be your new favorite Cardistry deck with its beautiful, vibrant color scheme mimicking the summer sky in Malibu, California. This unique deck is a wonderful addition for collectors who are particularly drawn to colorful designs and artwork. As these decks are only limited in quantity, you can still grab yours for $12.95 USD before they go out of stock!       

🂡  Deck  of the  Day  --  July 16th, 2020  🃁 Instant Noodles Playing Cards Instant Noodles Playing Cards is the hot new deck created by Bao Hoang . This deck is featured on Kickstarter.com, which you can purchase for $12 USD or $15 USD when it is released for retail sale. This deck design embodies everyone's quick, easy go-to meal in a deck of cards! Not only that, but the cards are going to be everyone's new favorite for their Cardistry tricks with its borderless noodle back design. Check out the Kickstarter now to get your hands on this awesome deck!   

🂮 🃎 🃞 🂼 We're excited to begin our new blog post series interviewing various playing card deck designers! In these posts, you'll learn all about the people behind your favorite decks and the different processes by which they design these stunning cards. We hope that this series will allow collectors to connect with designers and get some insight from them about our community and the hobby itself.  ⤌⤌⤌⤌⤌⤍⤍⤍⤍⤍ In this post, we'll learn a bit about deck and card design from a young and upcoming designer Lucas , the mind behind VHS Playing Cards , which is a brand new deck that will soon be launched on Kickstarter in the coming months. Lucas is currently collaborating with Carbon Creations Card Company , the creators of Oink Oink Playing Cards , on this deck.  [Learn more about the Oink Oink Playing Cards Kickstarter in an interview by Kardify   here ] VHS Playing Cards by C 4 C a r d s   VHS Playing Cards

🂡 Deck of the Day -- July 14th, 2020  🃁 It's time to kick off our Deck of the Day Summer Series where we will feature our favorite deck designs several times during the week! These decks will be new Kickstarter projects or designs from some of our card community's favorite artists. The purpose for these feature posts are to help new collectors discover decks they may not have otherwise found.  RAVN III The RAVN III  is the fourth deck design of the RAVN series featured on Kickstarter.com. This fourth edition includes RAVN IIII  Red , RAVN III  Blue , and RAVN III  X (which was unlocked after the project reached over 200% of their funding goal). This spectacular design is printed by USPCC with a brand new back design pictured below. For more details, check out their Kickstarter link here . You can also check out their previous decks  here  on Stockholm17 Playing Cards' website.                 ...

🂡 🂱 🃑 🃁 We're very excited to introduce a new series of blog posts interviewing some impressive playing card collectors from around the world in which they give us some valuable insight into the unique and diverse hobby that is collecting playing cards.  It was quite a privilege to chat with these collectors, as they have much to share about their knowledge of the hobby and community itself. It is my pleasure to shine a spotlight on these individuals, and I hope that their input will be a valuable resource for those who may just be starting off with collecting decks. Enjoy! 🂡 Lou Tolentino 🂱 Instagram: @decked_out_cards Introduction... Lou Tolentino is a popular figure on Instagram for card collectors near and far in which he showcases his amazing collection of decks on his page. Aside from his photos, Lou is an active member of the card collecting and Cardistry community as he has now organized two card collectors meet ups in Southern California. ...