The deck is funded and we made our first stretch goal, all 4 custom aces.  Less than $2,000 more to go for Bee Casino stock and two days left!

I agree, there are too many decks on KS.  Mine being one of them I want all the attention. ME ME ME!  OK seriously, from our point of view after seeing some of the amazing decks on KS and being a gamer and game company owner I saw it as a really cool way to show off our talented artists work in a new way going back to my roots of gaming before Magic: The Gathering or any of the CCG even existed (and I even got to workon a few of those).  I think a lot of other talented people saw the same thing from the early KS.

We are a go!

The Medusa Playing Card Decks is going live on Kickstarter at Noon PST on Friday 9/28. 

I want to say thank you and I really appreciate all the advice and support you guys have given as this project has developed.  It has really made this the best deck possible.

Please check it out once it goes live and even if you don't back it, I would really appreciate any Likes on Facebook and if you could let your friends who might be interested know about it.

I'll post a longer article on the Playing Card Plethora soon!

Thanks for the input.  I have lowered the cost from $9 to $8 on the early bird special since it started.  Did you mean $8 is still high?  The next lowest is $7 and with the margin that's pretty much giving them away with shipping single decks.  Since I'm allowing an almost unlimited number of decks at the early bird price that's kind of scary though it would be slightly better margins with multiple deck shipments. 

The coin idea is interesting.  We only cast in pewter so we are limited by that.  We could look into doing mutiple colors in a lacquer finish but that would be a new process for us too.  All our figurines are sold unassembled and unpainted.  Pewter does have a low noise.  We can cast with a pretty high degree of precision as our miniatures are extremely detailed at 30mm tall.  Don, do you mean the edges should have a champher on them? 

I haven't checked the price on metallic inks on the cards and I'm not sure it's a good fit.  For anything custom on the tuck boxes it's INSANELY expensive.  We're talking doubling the cost of the entire deck doing embossed or metallic ink +custom seal.  I honestly have no idea how other guys do it.  Custom 6 or 12 pack cases is something I'm looking into but would have to be done with another printer than USPCC because of the cost.  It's something we may be able to do on a short run with a packaging printer we use. 

Conjuring Creations did contact me when I first showed the previews.  It seems like they are extremely busy though so I doubt that will happen.  I've seen a couple metal card clips through outsourced manufacturers but I don't know if that's as attractive as the Eco Clips.

The stretch goals aren't final yet.  I've been having difficulty coming up with goals that I can give everyone that are meaningful and affordable.  I might do goals that are only available to orders over X decks or something.  Another possibility is doing 'unlocks' for items at certain funding levels that people can add on their order for additional cost.  This way we can make sure we have enough people that might be interested in purchasing an add on so we don't get killed by making like one or two of some expensive and time consuming special item.

Thanks again for all the advice.

I tried some more experiments with the back design.  I removed the border and the background. 

I did a test by mirroring the design element.  I reduced it from a 10% black to 5% because I think it would distract too much from the illustration and it should be very difficult to notice from the edge.  Fading it to the edges didn't work, it just looked wrong.  Personally I like the one way design but I understand the issue for Magicians.   I'm not sure what I think about the mirrored element though. By the way Encarded, I love your Tendril deck and it was one of my inspirations on desiring to make my own deck. 

I've updated the images at the top with the newest version of the cards.  I've put up two possible back colors, one gold and blue.  Let me know what you think!

So do you just mean enlarging the image on the back or bringing the letter and icon inside the border on the faces as well? 

My name is Kai Nesbit, I'm the owner of Cipher Studios, a game company that has been producing high quality games for 6 years.  I love all types of playing cards and have worked on several collectible card games at previous companies. Our primary artist we use for our main game, Wen Yu Li, is phenomenal so I asked him to work with me on doing a playing card deck to showcase his talent and to go crazy on his vision of a poker deck. 

I have great respect of the people on these forums and would appreciate feedback on the deck hope you enjoy it. 

Displayed are the Back, Ace of Spades, Queen of Hearts, King of Clubs.  As we finish up more of the cards I'll add them here.

If you'd like to see more of the artists work please check out his Deviant art page: wen-m.deviantart.com

*THIS IS UPDATED WITH NEW ART VERSIONS*

It looks like we may be able to get the wings moved to go for a symmetrical look.  We're also trying some different background colors because I think it will bring out some of the details better so it's not green on green.

Thanks again for all the input!   

Thanks for all the input.  I'm based in the US but have worked with printers on CCGs that print Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, etc.  They specialize in these kinds of products and I believe they compete with USPCC on quality.  USPCC is a lot more expensive than these other printers because they trade heavily on their personal brand.  There are also highly regarded card stocks from Germany and France that can be printed by specialized factories in China that also do Collectible Card printing.  My main audience is Kickstarter and then it will be hobby distribution at hobby, comic, board game, and tabletop gaming shops.  It seems the main audience is collectors on Kickstarter.  Of course I want to reach the broadest audience possible so I certainly don't want to alienate collectors.  So if collectors only want USPCC I may be required to do that.