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What is your choice for the Best Art Deck of 2014?

Decked Out by Connie Lim
1 (3.8%)
Clipped Wings by Emmanuel Jose
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Playing Arts by Digital Abstracts
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Bicycle Neverland by Nat Iwata
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Sawdust by Emmanuel Jose
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Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations

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Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« on: October 30, 2014, 03:37:58 PM »
 

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This Award is for the Best Art Deck of 2014! Post your nominations here.

Nominated, not seconded:
Gatorbacks by David Blaine
Pocono Modern by Kraig Kalashian
Water Dragons & Other Rare Aquatic Creatures by Jessica Feinberg

Nominated AND seconded
Decked Out by Connie Lim
Clipped Wings by Emmanuel Jose
Playing Arts by Digital Abstracts
Bicycle Neverland by Nat Iwata
Sawdust by Emmanuel Jose
« Last Edit: December 29, 2014, 03:11:43 AM by Don Boyer »
 

Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2014, 09:34:23 PM »
 

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Gatorbacks
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2014, 10:08:42 PM »
 

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Art deck, not sure what this means. In general, Uusi is the premier artistic team that is designing decks, although maybe not the best deck designers. And both Pagan and Hotcakes shipped in 2014 and I would vote for either. But a transformation deck has much more opportunity for art, and I think deserves to win this category.

I'd nominate Sawdust, but it won't ship until next year. So I nominate Clipped Wings instead.


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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2014, 10:22:05 PM »
 

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Playing Arts Deck by Digital Abstracts
Clipped Wings by Emmanuel Jose I'll go for Playing Arts if only to pick 1
Requiem by Lorenzo Gaggiotti (This should not be under art deck as clarified by Don)
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2014, 12:12:58 AM »
 

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Empire Bloodlines by Kings & Crooks
Really? An Art Deck? Bloodlines looks like a "traditional" deck to me.
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2014, 04:13:23 AM »
 

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Gatorbacks

A Jackson Robinson Deck (pick one for me please)

Empire Bloodlines by Kings & Crooks

PICK JUST ONE.  And not Empire Bloodlines, at least not until it's in people's hands.

Art deck, not sure what this means. In general, Uusi is the premier artistic team that is designing decks, although maybe not the best deck designers. And both Pagan and Hotcakes shipped in 2014 and I would vote for either. But a transformation deck has much more opportunity for art, and I think deserves to win this category.

I'd nominate Sawdust, but it won't ship until next year. So I nominate Clipped Wings instead.

An art deck would be a deck where the focus is more on the artwork.  It's usually either a non-standard face, a transformation face or a semi-transformation deck (like Clipped Wings - a proper transformation deck has all the pips in their standard location and appearance, so CW is a semi-transformation).  A perfect example would be the Stranger and Stranger Ultimate deck, or the numerous "art collective" decks.  Many art decks don't even have pips in the center of the spot cards at all, replaced with a graphic, a painting, a photo, etc.  Usually it's only the indices that will identify the cards in a deck that fully customized.

Uusi decks do conform to the basic designs of International standard faces, while at the same time being completely custom.  As such, they are not art decks.  If, in a given Uusi deck, the same style of imagery in the court cards was also applied to the spot cards, then perhaps that would be an art deck, especially if the spots were removed and replaced with paintings in that style.  For example, if the Hotcakes deck had spot cards with artwork similar to that of the courts in the deck - perhaps scenes of people engaged in some kind of suggestive frivolity - that would be an art deck.

Technically, the tourist decks that have photos of a specific locale (a region, a city, a state, etc.) on every card would also qualify as art decks.  But the comparison to something like an art collective deck might be like a comparison between a showing at an art gallery and a stack of paintings from a motel holding a "going out of business" sale, unless the photography of the tourist deck was truly stellar work, unlike that of nearly every tourist deck before it.
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2014, 08:50:09 AM »
 

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« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2014, 09:19:56 AM »
 

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Great choice and beat me to it. Seconded!
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2014, 03:56:34 PM »
 

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Gatorbacks

A Jackson Robinson Deck (pick one for me please)

Empire Bloodlines by Kings & Crooks

PICK JUST ONE.  And not Empire Bloodlines, at least not until it's in people's hands.

Art deck, not sure what this means. In general, Uusi is the premier artistic team that is designing decks, although maybe not the best deck designers. And both Pagan and Hotcakes shipped in 2014 and I would vote for either. But a transformation deck has much more opportunity for art, and I think deserves to win this category.

I'd nominate Sawdust, but it won't ship until next year. So I nominate Clipped Wings instead.

An art deck would be a deck where the focus is more on the artwork.  It's usually either a non-standard face, a transformation face or a semi-transformation deck (like Clipped Wings - a proper transformation deck has all the pips in their standard location and appearance, so CW is a semi-transformation).  A perfect example would be the Stranger and Stranger Ultimate deck, or the numerous "art collective" decks.  Many art decks don't even have pips in the center of the spot cards at all, replaced with a graphic, a painting, a photo, etc.  Usually it's only the indices that will identify the cards in a deck that fully customized.

Uusi decks do conform to the basic designs of International standard faces, while at the same time being completely custom.  As such, they are not art decks.  If, in a given Uusi deck, the same style of imagery in the court cards was also applied to the spot cards, then perhaps that would be an art deck, especially if the spots were removed and replaced with paintings in that style.  For example, if the Hotcakes deck had spot cards with artwork similar to that of the courts in the deck - perhaps scenes of people engaged in some kind of suggestive frivolity - that would be an art deck.

Technically, the tourist decks that have photos of a specific locale (a region, a city, a state, etc.) on every card would also qualify as art decks.  But the comparison to something like an art collective deck might be like a comparison between a showing at an art gallery and a stack of paintings from a motel holding a "going out of business" sale, unless the photography of the tourist deck was truly stellar work, unlike that of nearly every tourist deck before it.

When the design is as good as Gatorbacks and Bloodlines, it still is art to me. Bloodlines is withdrawn per rules.
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2014, 04:40:19 PM »
 

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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2014, 02:12:13 AM »
 

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When the design is as good as Gatorbacks and Bloodlines, it still is art to me. Bloodlines is withdrawn per rules.

If we were holding a PCF Art Awards competition, then you could nominate the beejeezus out of Bloodlines all day every day and twice on Sundays.  Hell, you could even take it out on a date, if you happen to swing that way, you crazy nut, you.  But these are the PCF Deck Awards - if it's not yet a deck, it's not eligible.  Get one into your hot, sweaty palms before New Year's Day and then we'll talk.

Please tell me this is the final word I'm going to hear about this.
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2014, 10:59:20 AM »
 

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Thank you everyone for your nominations!!!
Just note if you pick 3-10 decks your first nomination will be the one that counts.
Also if the deck is yet to be released, the vote can only count if it is released in 2014.
 

Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2014, 07:16:32 AM »
 

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I nominate Pocono Modern.

Clipped Wings, Seconded.
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2014, 08:50:31 AM »
 

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Pocono Modern, I almost forgot about this deck. Thanks kdklown
 

Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2014, 09:37:58 AM »
 

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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2014, 11:34:32 AM »
 

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This charming deck is going to make it, haha.

I nominate Nat Iwata's Bicycle Neverland deck.  :D



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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2014, 12:01:26 PM »
 

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This charming deck is going to make it, haha.

I nominate Nat Iwata's Bicycle Neverland deck.  :D

It has to be a conditional nomination.  According to a project update released TODAY, the decks haven't yet shipped, though they are on the way to Nat.
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
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This charming deck is going to make it, haha.

I nominate Nat Iwata's Bicycle Neverland deck.  :D

It has to be a conditional nomination.  According to a project update released TODAY, the decks haven't yet shipped, though they are on the way to Nat.

haha, Don you know he'll get them out.  ;)
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2014, 08:32:24 PM »
 

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This charming deck is going to make it, haha.

I nominate Nat Iwata's Bicycle Neverland deck.  :D

It has to be a conditional nomination.  According to a project update released TODAY, the decks haven't yet shipped, though they are on the way to Nat.

haha, Don you know he'll get them out.  ;)

In all likelihood, you're correct.  But until that happens, it has to be conditional.  The truck carrying the decks could have an accident and burst into flames or something.  (I know, unlikely and certainly not what anyone wishes to happen, but still possible.)
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Re: Best Art Deck of 2014 Award Nominations
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2014, 07:55:57 AM »
 

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« Reply #20 on: December 22, 2014, 06:01:27 PM »
 

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Received my Bicycle Neverland decks from Nat today. Great stuff haha. They're definitely eligible now.  :D
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« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2014, 01:27:00 AM »
 

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Received my Bicycle Neverland decks from Nat today. Great stuff haha. They're definitely eligible now.  :D

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« Reply #22 on: December 28, 2014, 12:01:00 AM »
 

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i'll second the neverland decks
 

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nominate sawdust by emmanuel jose, received my package :)
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« Reply #24 on: December 28, 2014, 11:08:05 AM »
 

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nominate sawdust by emmanuel jose, received my package :)

I'll second Sawdust. Great deck!
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« Reply #25 on: December 29, 2014, 04:37:54 AM »
 

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« Reply #26 on: December 30, 2014, 12:26:55 AM »
 

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Definitely Clipped Wings for me

Already nominated AND seconded.  Voting will take place later this week!
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