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A hand-drawn deck of playing cards that comes with decoder glasses and doubles as a puzzle experience that plays in 60-90 minutes. Launching May 31 on Kickstarter.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redfoxplayingcards/red-fox-playing-cards-enchantment-puzzle-deck

Some more info:
The newest Red Fox Playing Cards Puzzle Deck will be printed by USPCC on our favorite air cushioned stock and fulfilled by Red Fox Playing Cards. This is a seemingly innocent deck of playing cards that can be used for collecting, magic or card games. At first glance the symmetric back design transforms into a one-way design when viewed with our unique to Red Fox Playing cards decoder glasses that come with every deck. Once the glasses are on, you will be transported into another world where you can enjoy an experience of solving a series of four puzzles using many cards in the deck that lead to an ultimate crescendo. This one-time experience will guide you to finding a secret treasure and is designed to last 60-90 minutes. Our fourth deck on our third Kickstarter, but first to be designed as a puzzle deck in addition to a completely usable unmarked deck. Full of even more secrets than ever before, this deck has features and subtleties that ties it to our brand yet is unique in its own ways and brings color and fun to your next card game night, collectors cabinet, and yes, even puzzle night! Have a puzzle night with friends to solve the clues using almost the entire deck and still end up with a fully usable deck of cards. Since the last release in November 2020, we, Kelly and Ricki ten Hove have been hard at work brainstorming, planning, and many hours of artwork and play testing. We have worked hard over the last year and a half to bring you this hand drawn from scratch deck, with new pips, new suits and everything in-between, deck of cards. We present to you our latest Red Fox Playing Cards - Enchantment.

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Playing Card Plethora / Kickstarter - Red Fox Playing Cards V2.0
« on: September 22, 2020, 11:35:18 AM »
Launches today September 22! Anticipating a good turnout and filled with excitement and anticipation. Come and see how it goes and feel free to support if you are interested.  :D

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redfoxplayingcards/red-fox-playing-cards-v2

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Design & Development / Red Fox Playing Cards V2.0 Kickstarter Sept 22,2020
« on: September 07, 2020, 02:55:39 PM »
Hey everyone! I got a huge response from my first campaign. As a husband/wife team in Canada with no prior experience our first Kickstarter funded in less than 12 hours! I'm expecting our V2.0 deck that has been received very well to do even better! If you want to check it out, it's live on Kickstarter September 22, 2020 at 13:00CST. If you want to get notified and follow along for the ride, just click the button on the pre-launch page to get notified.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redfoxplayingcards/red-fox-playing-cards-v2


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Funded in less than 12 hours!

-100% Hand Drawn Cards
-100+ Hours of artwork alone
-Absolutely Beautiful back design
-Custom card faces and courts with intricate details
-Ambigram Logo(reads "Red Fox" even when upside down)
-A never before done marking system!  Every deck comes with custom red decoder glasses to learn the markings. Like training wheels they are no longer needed once you know where to look, you simply read it with the naked eye. We have field tested these and even when told, people cannot find the markings. After they view it with the glasses, it's like a Eurika moment and they are reading them in no time without the glasses.
-A never before done tuck case that can be used to create a 9-tuck puzzle that creates a unique picture
-Wonderful review by Richard Bellars: Penn and Teller FOOLER

Even if you don't support, you HAVE TO CHECK IT OUT! Watch the promo video though and let me know what you think!

Red Fox Playing Cards Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redfoxplayingcards/red-fox-playing-cards

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I have never done anything like this before. I am a pilot by trade and magic tricks especially card magic is one of my hobbies. Decided to make my own deck years ago and finally had a breakthrough. My wife is in charge of artwork. We are both learning as we go, Photoshop, file types, social media, card printing/printers etc. Any advice about the design or marketing etc. is greatly appreciated and welcome. Planning a Kickstarter before the end of the year that comes with a free magic trick book I'm making and really want to see this deck of cards get off the ground. I'll be creating a website with more details, our story, the redfoxplayingcards story and news on the Kickstarter.

You can follow along at "redfoxplayingcards" on Instagram and Facebook.

Let me know what you think!
I should mention it will be a marked deck of cards, but none of the markings are depicted here.

EDIT: Uploaded the pictures again in PNG so should be better color representation.

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Feedback + Support / Embedded photos
« on: July 25, 2019, 01:07:27 PM »
Sorry for my naïvety. I've done a google search and get many different results. How does one go about embedding photos in their post? I see the insert image:  . The photos I want to share are on my computer so not sure what to put between. I see the "attach" below the post but not sure how to get them within the text of my post. Thanks for your help.

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Magical Cardistry Bonanza / Computer generated flourishes
« on: May 22, 2019, 09:01:41 PM »
Hello everyone. I love great fans and flourishes and appreciate the hard work that goes into learning the art. I'm an amateur magician myself and have learned a bit of the craft. I'm designing a deck of cards and browsing Kickstarter have run across a few examples where there is computer generated card flourishes, such as full 360 degree fans etc. Has anyone used or know of a program that can achieve this? I'd be interested to get my hands on such a program for when i run my Kickstarter campaign. Thanks!

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Design & Development / Copy Limit line vs PRL Limit Line
« on: April 11, 2019, 10:03:13 PM »
I'm pretty naive when it comes to printing cards. Just setting up the Poker die with provided template from UPCC. Anybody with experience have any advice? I'm not sure the meaning of the Copy Limit line vs PRL Limit Line - I'm assuming the Die Line is where the die cuts. I'm wanting a white border similar in size to a standard bicycle deck and not sure where to line up my art work.

Also I scanned my hand drawn artwork in to Photoshop at the max 4000dpi that my scanner aloud me. What's the best format to save it in to keep the quality as high as possible?

Thanks in advance.

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Design & Development / Prototype Deck
« on: February 12, 2019, 04:05:37 PM »
I'll be designing a deck of cards that is VERY color specific. I'm planning on using MPC to try out a whole bunch of variations to perfect it. My concern is that moving over to a print by Bicycle for a larger number of decks will result in different colors as it is a different printing process. I would be horrified if my future kickstarter went through only to receive 1000 or more decks that are essentially ruined. I would love to do a prototype with Bicycle if they would do that once I think the colors are good. I'm in the process of contacting Bicycle for a prototype, I know they've done them in the past for about $250. Not sure if anybody else uses the same printing process that would have them cheaper in the mid-term prior to my kickstarter.

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Playing Card Plethora / Bicycle brand cards shipped to Canada
« on: January 30, 2019, 02:47:02 PM »
Has anyone here in Canada had a successful Kickstarter and had your custom deck printed and shipped by the United States playing card company? I was quoted prices in CAD and free shipping but not sure if I'm going to get stuck with a hefty bill for duties at the border.

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Introduce Yourself / Hello. I have a secret!
« on: January 29, 2019, 11:12:26 PM »
Hey everyone. I'm new to this forum. I am a pilot that also performs close up magic - mostly cards. I love strong effects. My wife is an amazing artist and together we are not only making a custom deck, we are creating a deck that has both great art work AND it has some hidden secrets. It's a marked deck that's never been done before and will pass the riffle test - no "going to the movies" haha. I won't give away too many details as the prototype is a month or two away but rest assured I'll be needing a lot of your help in making my kickstarter successful in the future months to come. I've already stumbled across a few good items and I am a fan of collecting decks. This site is great for gaining a knowledge base from a collective group of experts, collecting a few decks of cool cards and maybe offering advice, and hopefully offering a product that some of you would love to back as well. I look forward to interacting with some of you in the next while.

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