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Gods Playing Cards
Mythological Greek heroes playing cards, hand drawn with double foil tuck box. Only 2500 decks.
Greek mythological heroes playing cards
Limited production run of 2500 copies only.
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.
King of Diamonds
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
Jack cards
Queen of Clubs - Tyche
Queen of Diamonds - Artemis
Queen of Hearts - Aphrodite
Queen of Spades – Athena
Queen cards
King of Clubs - Poseidon
King of Diamonds - Plutus
King of Hearts - Cupid
King of Spades - Ares
King cards
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.
card back
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 have 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. This is also the first deck of cards under the MPC brand which uses double foiling on a color carded box where gold and silver is foiled onto the artwork areas. The result of this combination creates a truly remarkable deck of cards which we are very proud of.
open box
M30 magic card stock
The M30 linen light card stock coupled with the BETA finish by MPC is chosen for this deck of playing cards for its perfect blend of lightless, card color as well as for the perfect handling aspect of this stock. Smooth as butter and super flexibility with great snap back.
Limited edition metal collectors coin
Gods collectors metal coin
With this project, we have also created something that we normally don't do as a playing cards manufacturer, 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.
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