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Glaives Playing Cards - Live on Kickstarter

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Another deck has landed on K/S




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Things to note...

this deck is Bridge size.. narrower than a normal deck

and the prices are in £
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Damn. If only these were poker sized and USPCC. I really like the design of these!
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I like the pips, would like to see some numbered face cards to confirm how they look in a quantity. Huge mistake on the court cards, really loss me there.

The proposed second deck - The celtic pips are nice, the heart needs some work.
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Did Kickstarter open it up to outside of the U.S. now, or just the U.S. and U.K.? I'm just curious.

As for this Deck - The PIPS are cool but hard to recognize as Club, Heart... right away for a card game. The Tuck Box is cool but I don't like the same pattern when it's centered on the Back Card. I think it looks better when it's peek-a-booing in from the sides. The Court symbols are just weird and the Indice Fonts aren't very readable.

I'm not sure why a Bridge Deck would need custom Poker Chips. I hope I didn't end up starting a trend where every Deck, especially on Kickstarter, has to have Poker Chips included!

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Bridge size, non-USPCC and 4 corner indices are the things that put me off. Rectify those, and they'd sell a lot more.
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Oh, these are lovely. I'm not married to USPCC, so I have no problem with going in on these. Not perfect, as people have pointed out with a couple of the minor issues, but I'll live, I'm sure.

Kickstarter's still just US/UK, I'm afraid.
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MagikFingerz wrote:Bridge size, non-USPCC and 4 corner indices are the things that put me off. Rectify those, and they'd sell a lot more.
I could not figure out why these looked so crowded... Thanks for pointing that out.
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I'm not a fan of this at all...really miss the "face" cards.
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I'm good for one deck... for the novelty factor.
Plus, the chips look great.
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RandyButterfield wrote:Did Kickstarter open it up to outside of the U.S. now, or just the U.S. and U.K.? I'm just curious.
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I, for one, am very intrigued by the design. I appreciate the progression of the suits through the court cards. I realize this will be hard to put into play, especially for the elderly (myself included), but the design is fantastic. I have just ordered a pair of decks. And by the way, I don't really give a fig about them not being USPCC. There are thousands of excellent non-USPCC decks out there.
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Hello all,

I am the creator of this pack and totally new to these forums, but having looked around I wish I had found out about them sooner! I've only just got round to checking out this link as I've been busy with things on Kickstarter, but I would like to thank everyone for their comments and hopefully give you some feedback.

1. Not using USPCC - I've now settled on using a UK subsidiary of Cartamundi to print these cards. I don't know the ins and outs of all the manufacturers but if you are purely looking for a mark of quality then I believe this is a suitable European equivalent. Also, being British, I wanted to keep manufacturing inside the UK.

2. Size and pips - Ideally I wanted to release a 4 pip, bridge size pack and a 2 pip, poker size pack, however to do this I would have had to raise twice as many funds, so I had to make a decision. Although I play poker I have just always thought that bridge size proportions look better as well as being easier to use for whist based games. With regards to pips, although I am not left handed myself, along with most left handed people I tend to fan the cards backwards, so if there are only 2 pips they are only visible upside down at the bottom of the card. Essentially this was a personal choice which I also thought would open the deck to more people. I appreciate now that it seems most people prefer 2 pip poker cards and so in future I will try launching with this layout first.

3. Number cards and honour cards - I have recently updated my Kickstarter page to show the number cards, let me know what you think. With regards to the honour cards being harder to read, I understand this and it was a gamble I wanted to take. I personally don't see the point of using royal figures to depict card values (apart from tradition) and so I wanted to play with concepts not restricted by this common design rule. I understand that a lot of people may not like them, which is why I started with a relatively simple design change, but the aim of this project is to see if there are enough people interested to keep exploring more radical design changes and slowly create a totally new, but still intelligible, card design.

4. Poker chips - I admit that having chosen a bridge size pack, using poker chips as a promotional item is odd, however I wanted to offer something more than just standard uncut sheets, so the chips were designed more as a commemorative item. Having said that I was hoping more people would be interested in the poker set, but unfortunately due to the chip manufacturing process I cannot bring the price down to make it any more attractive.

Thanks again for taking the time to look/comment/pledge.

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Ill definitely get it if its printed in USPCC and at a lower price ...
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RandyButterfield wrote:Did Kickstarter open it up to outside of the U.S. now, or just the U.S. and U.K.? I'm just curious.

As for this Deck - The PIPS are cool but hard to recognize as Club, Heart... right away for a card game. The Tuck Box is cool but I don't like the same pattern when it's centered on the Back Card. I think it looks better when it's peek-a-booing in from the sides. The Court symbols are just weird and the Indice Fonts aren't very readable.

I'm not sure why a Bridge Deck would need custom Poker Chips. I hope I didn't end up starting a trend where every Deck, especially on Kickstarter, has to have Poker Chips included!

thanks, Randy

Most Casinos use Bridge size playing cards for poker. Bridge size playing cards are what is used in The WSOP.

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I know Cartamundi, the quality of thier cards are very poor since many years.

In France, this is the most known maker and distributor.
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