Hey Everyone,

Hope all is well.  I had some delays but I am happy to announce that my Wild West Playing Card Project is finally ready to launch in June!  We have completed the art work on the cards.  Each deck will have all custom faces and backs.  The Lawmen deck will depict Historical Wild West law legends and the Outlaw deck will depict Historical Wild West outlaw legends.  Here are a few pics of the face cards and tuck boxes.  Let me know what you think. 

I wanted the images of the cards depict the real historical figures but I wanted to still have the "playing card" feel to the portraits. 

Little Background on some of the Legends in the deck:

 King of Clubs - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok of the Lawmen Deck of the Wild West Playing Card Project.

"Wild Bill of the American Old West is known for his skills as a scout, lawman, gunfighter and gambler. He was a professional gambler who was involved in several notable shootouts. In 1876, Hickok was shot from behind and killed while playing poker in a saloon. The poker hand he supposedly held at his death has become known as the dead man's hand. There are a few hands that were suspected of being the Dead Man's hand but the most widely accepted was black aces and black eights." per Wikipedia

Outlaw Deck's King of Spades: Jesse James.
Jesse James was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, gang leader and was the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. The James brothers were most active as members of their own gang from around 1866 until 1876.   

Hey Everyone!  Here is another project I am working on with my designer.  Everything is hand drawn as usual.  I wanted to post a couple different options of the back of the card we are working on.  Please let me know which one you like the best.  The box is a work in progress.  We are going to work on the lettering Widow some more.   Let me know what you think.  Thanks!

Hey Everyone, I am officially Live on Kickstarter now! 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/86221149/coat-of-arms-a-new-bicycle-playing-card-deck

Thanks for all of the support and all of the great feedback!  Thanks for helping with my deck!

Thanks again,

Justin

I sense that USPC is seeing a greater opportunity to create more unique decks than their standard decks.  Today I picked up these Bicycle decks at Wallgreens and Walmart.  Just a few years ago I remember that if I wanted to get a unique deck to add to my collection I would have to go to a game store in the mall or online.  I find it fascinating that now more unique decks are easier to find in the big box stores. 

I sense that USPC is seeing the demand for custom decks and have gotten a lot more business due to Kickstarter. 

My name is Justin and I am creating a new deck of cards to put on Kickstarter. The deck will be original art. My Theme is Coat of Arms. Each card will be unique art. Each court card will have a different coat of arms. Kings and Queens will have crowns and the Jacks will have Knight helmets. The number cards will have a shield in the background and the suits will be laid out on the shield. The Joker has a jester hat in place of a crown.  I thought it would be cool to incorporate a little history into the deck. In the 18th century the Swiss and German culture used different images for the four suits that are common today. They used roses, bells, acorns and shields. So throughout the deck you will find the old images incorporated in with the new. You will find hearts with roses, Diamonds with bells, clubs with acorns and shields with spades. Here is what I have done so far.

Let me know what you think!