[Buyer's Guide] Organic Playing Cards (OPC)

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About Organic Playing Cards - OPC
Organic Playing Cards is a series of decks that focuses on organic designs. Inspired from casino decks, every deck will feature either a fruit or other organic food on both sides and the choice of background color (and sometimes, broken border elements). The Jokers, Aces (mostly the traditional Ace of Spades), and courts are modified according to theme, along with the color scheme for the pips, numbers, letter, and artworks. The brand is a brainchild of Cameron "Cam" Toner. He wanted to pursue in cardistry and magic, as well as custom playing cards. It was first started as a normal release by producer Riffle Shuffle, but eventually, it has grown into it's own brand and have it's own community. OPC recruits a team of cardists and magicians - DK Magician (David Koehler), Kaitlyn Chen, Joe Feldpausch. The main designer for OPC is Alexis Grant. All of the cards are printed by USPCC on Crushed Stock (except for Exotic and a few others), and the brand partners up with Kevin Yu of Riffle Shuffle to do the production with distribution and sales. You can get OPC decks through Riffle Shuffle webstore.


OPC Passport Reward Program
This is a program where those who supports the brand will be rewarded with a very exclusive deck. When you are getting your first OPC deck from the webstore, you will received ONE Passport [You will get TWO Passports if you get 12 decks (1 brick) or more (24 decks or 2 bricks)]. The passport contains six slots for six holographic stickers featuring the fruit of the released decks. Orders of 11 decks or less will get you ONE holographic sticker, while orders of 12 decks or more will get you TWO holographic stickers. Once your passport have been filled with 6 stickers, you send the filled passport back to the address listed on the passport [you are paying for the send back], and they send you back with the exclusive deck [they covered the ship back]. Instructions on how to redeem your Passport Reward can be found HERE.

Every new OPC decks will have an 'Early Access' - you may be able to get the deck 24 hours earlier than the official release day. If you order 3 or more decks during the early release, you will get TWO holographic stickers, while orders of 12 decks or more will get your THREE holographic stickers. With these, you will be able to fill up two passports in one go! 'Early Access' is given to active members of the OPC Discord Group AND those who have sent in their filled OPC Passport once.


OPC Garden Hangout
This is a community made by OPC that welcomes anyone (and I mean ANYBODY) that are interested in playing cards [you DON'T HAVE to own any OPC decks just to be in there]. Whether you are a conjurer who does magic trick with cards, a cardist who juggles cards like a boss, or a collector who appreciates artworks and crafts on small scale - you can hang out with people who shared the same interests. You can also play online poker, discuss about games and others stuffs. Mainly, the hangout serves the purpose of providing updates of the brand: teasers of new releases, upcoming events, and much more. The hangout group is in Discord, and it is all managed by a member of OPC team, Luis Wolfenschneider. Who knows, if you happened to be active in chatting, you might just be lucky to be in there~


OPC Collaboration
Organic Playing Cards brand had collaborated with other brands as well. These are the collaborations:

• Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation = Shortened as ALSF - founded by Alexandra "Alex" Scott, this is a foundation created to collect funds for charity to help children suffering from cancer. The money is gathered from sales of cups of lemonade , freshly squeezed lemons that you can found amongst yard stands or small stores. These money will be used to fund research and cure of cancer and in hopes of helping children suffered by it.
• Wounded Corner = Playing cards enthusiast and reseller Steve Rosenfield started Wounded Corner as retailer of many decks of cards, until eventually he created his own deck of cards. His collaboration with OPC produced yet another food themed deck with a story: Papa Leon's Wicket Donuts . ! DISCLAIMER ! - This deck series is not part of the main line of OPC.
• Mother Juice = Store selling fresh juice and salad made by organically grown and produced fruits and vegetables. OPC establishes a pop-store for the release of the collaboration deck in Boston, Massachussets, USA.

OPC Gilded Decks
Starting from Far-Os deck, OPC is now doing a gilded variant from the standard edition. To gain access to the gilded deck, you have to get a minimum of 6 decks (half-brick) [It was a minimum 12 deck (a brick) for Far-Os - received a bad feedback and adjusted for next releases]. The access will be given to those who qualified, with a password for their eyes only. After a period of time, these gilded decks will be on public listing for others to fight for grabs. The gilded decks will have a holographic numbered seal with the icons of the deck titles and it will be extremely limited. Because the nature of gilding process, expect long delays for them decks - usually months after the release of the standard version. Currently, the limit is changed to allow getting more gilded deck - you can get TWO gilded decks for a half-brick bought, FOUR gilded decks for a full-brick.


Themes w/ Description

• Peelers = It's for fruit that has outer layer that you have to peel in order to eat the fruit - and this is the fruit which monkeys love (and Minions too). The box design is to imitate the wooden crate that store bananas with a label branded on the box. The color of the label shows the color of the background for each version. The Ace of Spades features a big spade pip with the banana.
  • V1 - BANANA on Turquoise
  • V2 - BANANA on Red
  • V3 - BANANA on Metallic Gold
  • V4 - BANANA on Metallic Blue
• Squeezers = It's for fruits that can be converted to juice drinks. To extract the juice, you can simply use the blender OR you squeeze them manually. The box is designed to imitate a juice carton box, complete with nutrition label and a straw hole. The Ace of Spades features an inverted spade shaped pitcher containing the juice. It's half brick box is designed to be a small-sized drink carton box! V2 is OPC's first collaboration - with ALSF.
  • V1 - ORANGE
  • V2 - LEMON
  • V3 - GRAPEFRUIT
  • V4 - CHERRY LIMEADE
• Snackers = Small berries that are small that you can simply enjoy them for snacks. These berries may as well to be used as toppings on cakes and other delicacies. Every deck comes with special plastic packaging bag with zip lock - the tuck box itself is a mirror to the packaging. The Power Ace for each edition is different! The half-brick box is designed to be interactive box that contains 6 bags.
  • V1 - STRAWBERRY = Ace of Hearts
  • V2 - BLACKBERRY = Ace of Spades
  • V3 - BLUEBERRY = Ace of Clubs
  • V4 - RASPBERRY = Ace of Diamonds
• Slicers = Some fruits are enjoyable when it is sliced. The first fruit that you can think off is the Apple, the very basic fruit of all. The first edition featured box that imitates an apple box packaging, with a small worm poking out from the hole. The second edition features the box to be red apple coated with gold paint, representing the golden apple. Both versions have half brick box designed to be a small rattan basket.
  • V1 - GREEN APPLE
  • V2 - GOLDEN APPLE
• Carvers = These fruits are those which you can use to carve something. You can either carve it to remove the seeds and enjoy the juicy fruit, or you can take out the contents and carve on the surface to create faces or carved artworks. The first edition features tuck box that is like cubed watermelon, with it's half-brick box compliments the box to create a block whole watermelon. The second edition is fashioned to looked like a candy bar (inspired from Reese Bars) - comes with it's own sealed bag, perfect for Halloween vibes, so as it's courts design.
  • V1 - WATERMELON
  • V2 - PUMPKIN
• Splitters = These are fruits that you need to split them to evenly two parts in order to enjoy them. Split them neatly with a knife or brutely with both hands. [NOTE: This is NOT an official series name from OPC, this is made by the list author]. There will be two variants of boxes (on the second iteration, different boxes and card backs) which will compliments with each other. You can play with the boxes: as if you are splitting a boxy fruit of avocado/pomegranate (the strategic embossing and debossing connects the two boxes like jigsaw puzzle). The decks are printed by TWPCC.
  • Avocardos
    • Seed
    • Seedless
  • Palmegranates
    • Side A
    • Side B

  HOW to tell the difference between two variants
  Avocardos
  Seed = Front side: has seed - Back side: Blue label is above orange label
  Seedless = Front side: doesn't have seed - Back side: Orange label is above blue label
  Both variants have the same cards.
  
  Palmegranates
  Side A = Front side: bottom area have arils formation of a balloon dog - Back side: Numbered seal on the bottom, yellow circular label on the top - Card Back: Dark Red background w/ Yellow Tan border
  Side B = Front side: top right side is missing a lot of arils - Back side: Numbered seal on the top, blue and fruit oval label on the bottom - Card Back: Yellow Tan background w/ Dark Red border
  The Numbered Seal are ACTUAL REAL stickers! Gilded variants don't have these oval numbered seal - replaced with the holographic numbered seal on the opening.

• Shuckers = Corn - classified as fruit by botanists, yet we enjoyed them as vegetable or grains. Popcorn comes from corns: heat them kernerls up with melted butter, and wait for them to pop!The box mimic the actual ear of corn. The back design is showing a pattern of seeds on a corn colored in yellow, white, red, and blue - the first of OPC deck with one-way back design. The brick box is designed to looked lik a silo, containing 12 "corns".
  • Shuckers - CORN
• Roasters = It took a lot whole process of turning coffee fruit into beans that baristas grind to brew delicious bean juice, that is COFFEE! It's a morning drink to almost every people in the whole world for their breakfast. The back design features coffee beans with a background of espresso with leaf latte art. The box design is to mimic coffee powders/beans box, ready to be consumed as all-time favorite beverage. Three decks comes with a special burlap sack (version 1 used to have actual coffee beans, which unfortunately only available in US).
  • V1 - COFFEE
  • V2 - PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE
• Gettin' Spicy/Saucy = Ready for some fiery sensation in your mouth? Try put on some chilli/jalapeno sauce, and see if you can handle the heat! The tuck box is designed to looked like sauce bottles, while the brick box is designed to look like a big packaging for the bottles, complete with spicy levels information and nutrition label. Both decks are released at the same time - either choose one OR you can get both! The brick option will split the deck counts for each deck.
  • Gettin' Spicy - CHILLI PEPPER
  • Gettin' Saucy - JALAPENO PEPPER
• Far-Os = Breakfast is an important meal of the day, and cereal is a fitting meal for it. Crunchy cereals to be enjoyed with a chilled milk in a bowl. The tuck box is fashioned to be a cereal box. The back design features a broken border design formed from milk splashes. The Ace of Spades features a bowl of cereal. The color scheme is blue and yellow. The courts present people on breakfast time: enjoying bowls of cereal. The Jokers feature a bowl of cereal, which included a card reveval in form of the cereal formation.
  • Far-Os - CEREAL
• Cardsicles = On a hot sunny day, you just need a chilly treat! Popsicles is the answer to your need for chill~ The tuck box is designed to be like a real frozen sweet juice block and it comes with an actual ice-cream stick - You can make this deck to be like a popsicle! Each deck comes with a sticker and a stick packed inside a sealed plastic bag.
  • Cardsicles - POPSICLE (Orange)
• Coco Palms = Refreshing drinks while relaxing by the beach. It's the drink that can refreshing your ions! The box is designed to looked like a small carton of coconut water drink. The half-brick box for this deck is designed to looked like a package for 6 bottled drinks of fresh coconut water. The back side of the box shows an instruction of drinking fresh coconut water using the spout.
  • Coco Palms - COCONUT
• OPC Community = This deck is made by the community of OPC - the design, color, and everything are through the voices of the people who supported the brand. The courts represent members of the OPC team, like Cam as the King of Hearts and Luis as the King of Spades. The Ace of Spades show the bigger icon of OPC's orange logo with the text "Welcome to the Family". The back design is a two-way logo of OPC. The half-brick box can be construsted to be a small grocery store.
  • V1 - Orange
  • V2 - Green FOIL
• EXOTIC = This is a series of EXCLUSIVE decks only available as a reward for OPC Passport Completion. These decks will have metallic foil on the back of the cards. The box for the cards will also have metallic foil on them. Only 1000 decks are made for each version, and starting from V2, the deck will include a numbered seal. Eventually, these decks will be available for grabs at the costs of 6 standard OPC decks.
  • V1 - PINEAPPLE
  • V2 - DRAGON FRUIT
  • V3 - BLUE RASPBERRY
• MOTHER JUICE = This is OPC's second collaboration, in partnership with Mother Juice, a local Boston brand of fresh organic juice and salad. The deck features the similar design as any other OPC decks, only that it features cartoon fruits and vegetables. The tuck box is a colorful composition of organic fruits and veggies surrounding the title. The back features a striking dark red background with fruits and veggies composition. The deck is sold at the pop-up store at on Mother Juice shop and on Riffle Shuffle webstore.
  • Mother Juice - BEETS
• Sweet Peas = Another vegetable (botanically, it's a fruit) that comes into the line up. The green little balls that might be disgusting to kids, but it's good for your health. The tuck box is designed to looked like a canned food containing freshly produced peas from the farms. The half brick box is designed to looked like a small microwave. The cards feature metallic green ink.
  • Sweet Peas - PEAS
• Twisters = First OPC deck to feature pastries, and to start it up, it features pretzels. The tuck box is fashioned to be a box of freshly ready-bake pretzels snack. The hald-brick box is designed to looked like a 6-pack box of pretzel snack boxes, complete with interactive puzzles. The cards feature metallic brown on the cards.
  • Twisters - PRETZELS
• Scoops = The next ice cream themed deck, and the flavor is all-time favorite Mint Chocolate Chip. The tuck box features a fun design of a block chunk of ice cream - like those $1 Ice Cream in Singapore. The half-brick box is designed to looked like an ice-cream truck. The cards feature metallic turquoise ink on the cards, probably the shiniest of other OPC decks with metallic ink.
  • Scoops - MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP

TOTAL Decks: 48 (2)

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Decks List - Organic Playing Cards

• Decks are listed according to release year. Although the gilded variants of the deck comes late, they will be listed below it's standard variant for ease of mind.
• Decks listed with a single star are collaboration decks - not including Papa Leon's Wicked Donuts.
• Decks listed with double stars are OPC Gilded Decks and OPC Passport Reward Decks.
• Color codes signify decks within the same series - series with different versions.

2018
Peelers V1 - Banana on Turquoise
Squeezers V1 - Orange

2019
Peelers V2 - Banana on Red
Snackers V1 - Strawberry
(*) Squeezers V2 - Lemon
Slicers V1 - Green Apple

2020
Snackers V2 - Blackberry
Carvers V1 - Watermelon
Peelers V3 - Banana on Metallic Gold
Squeezers V3 - Grapefruit
Avocardos [Seed] - Avocado / Box with Seed
Avocardos [Seedless] - Avocado / Box without Seed
Shuckers - Corn

2021
Snackers V3 - Blueberry
(*)(*) EXOTIC V1 - Pineapple
Roasters V1 - Coffee House Blend
Gettin' Spicy - Chilli Pepper
Gettin' Saucy - Jalapeno
Slicers V2 - Golden Apple
Carvers V2 - Pumpkin
Peelers V4 - Banana on Metallic Blue

2022
Snackers V4 - Raspberry
(*)(*) EXOTIC V2 - Dragon Fruit
Far-Os - Cereal
(*)(*) Far-Os - Cereal GILDED Sapphire
Cardsicles - Popsicle
(*)(*) Cardsicles - Popsicle GILDED Orange
Squeezers V4 - Cherry Limeade
(*)(*) Squeezers V4 - Cherry Limeade GILDED Ruby
Coco Palms - Coconut
(*)(*) Coco Palms - Coconut GILDED Frost Blue
OPC Community V1 - Orange
(*) Mother Juice - Beets
(*)(*)(*) Mother Juice - Beets GILDED Magenta
Roasters V2 - Pumpkin Spice Latte
(*)(*) Roasters V2 - Pumpkin Spice Latte GILDED Brown

2023
Sweet Peas - Peas
(*)(*) Sweet Peas - Peas GILDED Emerald
Twisters - Pretzel
(*)(*) Twisters - Pretzel GILDED Brown
(*)(*) EXOTIC V3 - Blue Raspberry
Scoops - Mint Chocolate Ice Cream
(*)(*) Scoops - Mint Chocolate Ice Cream GILDED Holographic
Palmegranates [Side A] - Pomegranate = Dark Red w/ Yellow Tan
Palmegranates [Side B] - Pomegranate = Yellow Tan w/ Dark Red
(*)(*) Palmegranates [Side A] - Pomegranate = Dark Red w/ Yellow Tan GILDED Red
(*)(*) Palmegranates [Side B] - Pomegranate = Yellow Tan w/ Dark Red GILDED Yellow
OPC Community V2 - Emerald FOIL


TBA
(*)(*) OPC Community V2 - Emerald FOIL GILDED Emerald
OPC Community V3 - ???