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GODS Gilded Playing Cards Red/Black editions
Hand-drawn mythological Greek Gods gilded playing cards
Greek Gods Playing Cards
In this project, we present to you our two newest Gods playing cards with gilded edges and a double foiled long tongue tuck box, with a limited production run of 1000 copies each.
The Gods Playing Cards is based on a Greek mythological heroes theme where we use 12 renowned Greek heroes to represent all 12 characters in the court cards. Each character was studied to ensure we had a good understanding of the character before we went into the sketching stage. And as on standard playing cards, we wanted the characters to be holding an artifact which is related to themselves such as the king of diamonds holding a cornucopia which symbolizes abundance and wealth and on the jack on clubs is Dionysus who is the god of wine so he is holding some grapes and a cup of wine.
Red Edition
Black Edition
The below is the list of Greek gods on the cards.
Jack of Clubs - Dionysus
Jack of Diamonds - Hermes
Jack of Hearts - Orpheus
Jack of Spades – Enyalius
Queen of Clubs - Tyche
Queen of Diamonds - Artemis
Queen of Hearts - Aphrodite
Queen of Spades – Athena
King of Clubs - Poseidon
King of Diamonds - Plutus
King of Hearts - Cupid
King of Spades - Ares
In general, the king cards are gods, the queens are goddesses and the jacks are young gods.
The 2 joker cards is Zeus and Hades. Zeus is the strongest of all Greek gods in the upper world and Hades of the underworld.
The card back is a mirrored design of Zeus, the father of all gods and ruler of Mount Olympus.
The aces took a bit of design time as we went through several designs. At the end we decided they should be of mythological children outlining the shapes of the 4 pips which we think is absolutely beautiful and adds a softer, more classical touch to the deck.
Special tuck box
We developed a special tuck box to compliment the Gods deck where there is an extended tongue on the back side of the box as opposed to the standard tuck in box found standard on playing cards. The first Gods deck released last year was the first deck of cards under the MPC brand which used double foiling on a color carded box. In these 2 new editions, the red uses red and gold foil whilst the black uses silver and bronze. The result of these combination of foil on our Gods artwork are truly remarkable.
Gilded decks
The Gods red and the black editions in this project are limited editions and they both come gilded as standard. The red deck dons a beautiful red gild and the black, a majestic bronze.
Gilded Cards (Black Edition)
Gilded Cards (Red Edition)
M30 magic card stock
The M30 linen light card stock coupled with the renown BETA finish by MPC is used for this deck of playing cards for its perfect blend of lightless, card tone as well as for the perfect handling aspect of this stock. Smooth as butter and super flexibility with great snap back.
Gilded Cards (Black Edition)
Gilded Cards (Red Edition)
Limited edition metal collectors coin
The limited edition Gods coin is back. A beautiful matching metal collectors coin which is limited to our Gods Kickstarter project only. The coin has good weight to it and is 35mm x 3mm in size. Included on pledges of 2 decks and above. Or you can add it as an add-on.
Gods collectors metal coin
Wooden Box (Double decks)
Wooden box (Single deck)
Pledge List
Add-Ons List