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Design & Development / Custom Double Pinochle Deck concept
« on: January 14, 2019, 10:25:01 PM »
I am working on a custom 112 card deck of cards which would primarily be useful for playing a new variation of Double Deck Pinochle, but can also be used to play interesting variations of other card games. It would be Bicycle branded with the card faces having a variation of the standard Bicycle card faces. The card backs would be custom.
The main purpose of the deck is to add a new level of strategy to card games by adding 4 Color Suits to the standard 4 standard suits. When playing Pinochle with this deck the 4 Color Suits can be used to make melds as well as the standard suits, for example a Run of a Blue Jack, a Blue Queen, and a Blue King. When playing tricks in Pinochle, the Color Suit of a card can be followed as well as the standard suit. This applies to other meld forming games like Rummy, and trick-taking games like Bridge.
The deck would consist of 4 stripped decks with the Ranks of 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace in the 4 standard suits (a Euchre deck of 24 cards), each in a different color. In other words a Blue, Red, Green, and Purple Euchre deck, all with the same backs. There would also be 4 Jokers, 1 in each color. The set would use 2 uncut sheets for printing.
The deck would include Game Rules cards or a booklet with rules for playing Double Deck Pinochle, Pinochle, Euchre, Poker, and other games using the custom set. There would also be a website with rules for variations of most popular card games.
The cards would have metallic gold ink on the front and back and possibly foil and embossing on the tuck box. The artwork would be of a quality consistent with professionally designed decks. The Tuck Box would be twice the thickness of a standard deck. The Kickstarter Reward and retail price would be around $15.
I have seen other posts here where decks with more than the 4 standard suits are considered kind of amateur, but the extra suits in this deck have a purpose.
My question here would be, would the fact that it is not a standard deck of 52 cards plus jokers, and thicker than a standard deck, make it undesirable to custom card collectors or would it just be an interesting new type of custom deck?
The main purpose of the deck is to add a new level of strategy to card games by adding 4 Color Suits to the standard 4 standard suits. When playing Pinochle with this deck the 4 Color Suits can be used to make melds as well as the standard suits, for example a Run of a Blue Jack, a Blue Queen, and a Blue King. When playing tricks in Pinochle, the Color Suit of a card can be followed as well as the standard suit. This applies to other meld forming games like Rummy, and trick-taking games like Bridge.
The deck would consist of 4 stripped decks with the Ranks of 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace in the 4 standard suits (a Euchre deck of 24 cards), each in a different color. In other words a Blue, Red, Green, and Purple Euchre deck, all with the same backs. There would also be 4 Jokers, 1 in each color. The set would use 2 uncut sheets for printing.
The deck would include Game Rules cards or a booklet with rules for playing Double Deck Pinochle, Pinochle, Euchre, Poker, and other games using the custom set. There would also be a website with rules for variations of most popular card games.
The cards would have metallic gold ink on the front and back and possibly foil and embossing on the tuck box. The artwork would be of a quality consistent with professionally designed decks. The Tuck Box would be twice the thickness of a standard deck. The Kickstarter Reward and retail price would be around $15.
I have seen other posts here where decks with more than the 4 standard suits are considered kind of amateur, but the extra suits in this deck have a purpose.
My question here would be, would the fact that it is not a standard deck of 52 cards plus jokers, and thicker than a standard deck, make it undesirable to custom card collectors or would it just be an interesting new type of custom deck?