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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => Topic started by: nyxcards on May 21, 2017, 01:58:28 PM
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Hey! Welcome to the long awaited Nyx Reds playing cards!
On the Kickstarter campaign you'll see photos etc...
Buy them now on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2128705801/nyx-reds-playing-cards
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Another deck of minimalist playing cards targeted at cardists. Yay.
Forgive my lack of enthusiasm here. I'm sure they'll be fine quality, but to my eyes, they're overly simple - underdesigned. I thought the minimal trend died out - you couldn't swing a dead cat at kickstarter.com without hitting a minimalist deck for a while there. And this one doesn't even properly fit the minimalist description - except for what appears to be minimal effort.
Why is it that the Ace of Spades doesn't actually have a proper spade in the design art - but the Joker does? I nearly thought it was the Ace of Spades!
Why make the courts so bland and small? They look like low-rent clip art. For the deck as a whole, it's as if you had a designer that couldn't afford an artist and just went with simple geometric designs and whatever royalty-free stuff they could throw together. It's not bad for what it is, but what it is isn't much.
Aside from having simple, angular shapes, there's little about this design that makes it unique for cardists, and certainly nothing that hasn't been done before - and better. And don't get me started on yet another limited edition deck targeted to an audience that's meant to use up decks faster than a guy with a cold uses tissue paper. What the hell's the point? Why shell out $13 a pack when it's not going to perform any better than a pack of Tally Ho, Bikes or Bees from the same manufacturer, retailing for a third to a quarter of the price? There are decks out there with far more effort put into their design and execution that are more deserving of my dollars.
If you find more people, enough people, who disagree with me and opt to back you, fantastic - more power to you. Mine isn't the only opinion out there and I fully don't expect everyone to agree with me; it's a big world out there, room for all different kinds of decks. But I won't be backing - I'm simply not impressed.