Hello Playing Card Forum, we would like to present the complete overhaul of our project, The Elves Deck.
It is with great anticipation that we want to show you what we are about to launch on KS this coming week (October 6th).

Just for the tuck box we worked for over 6 months and tried different solutions. This until we found these very exclusive foils that are produced only in the UK and we chose them to be used for our tuck as they have some incredible nuances of green and gold, unmatched in any other sample we have seen. The paper used for the tuck is premium German paper, the best they had to offer, we chose only the absolute best material for this production.

Here you can see our magnificent tuck box, made by Boschiero & Newton, with 3 special hot foils and embossing.



And here's our back:


Aces & Pips:



& custom court cards (just the clubs, but each pip has different custom courts):


you can follow our project here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/friscards/the-elves-deck-premium-playing-cards

and our instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/friscards/

If everything goes well we will produce gilded versions, in gold and green. For the gold gilding there will be another tuck box, with different foils.
Please note that this prototype was printed by MPC, while we will work with USPCC and use premium stock with metallic inks for the final production.

-photos for this post by Richard Arturo & Frank Alan Cuvin

Hello Don, thanks so much for your kind words and nice ideas!

You are right, we canceled, and it was because we launched at a very difficult time, when there were like 15 or more other projects of playing cards at the same time and also, we hadn't prepared properly our promotional campaign, as you wisely noticed.

We are the actors as well as the creators of the project, so you actually saw us in the video, we did the cosplay for fun and to make the project look real, we used our faces and tried to make a fun video to show the theme and the cards. Two of the playing cards of the project actually feature our faces, so we somewhat did what you mentioned in your idea. However, we don't have a real community of cosplayer friends. so it would become a little difficult to have more people dressed up and would also be complicated to re-draw the cards for this reason .

We spoke with some of the backers as well as with some other creators and we have had a lot of nice feedback and ideas. And we are following through with those comments as well.

You are absolutely right about the prototypes and in fact, we just had two decks manufactured to have a general idea, already noticed a few things to tweak and we'll have the cards reprinted again. When we have a prototype that looks 100% right, we will indeed manufacture around 10 decks and send it to selected influencers, youtube reviewers, photographers, and people who'd generally be able to create interest and make some noise about the cards.

We looked into doing some officially licensed product but it was very complex so we created our story ourselves, and hopefully, people would be interested in the story and the elves as well. Except for the name of the wind and a few other fantasy-oriented decks, we didn't find too many decks of this genre and since we love fantasy and RPG, we went along with it. it's the world we know best.

We will also make fewer promotional items connected to the campaign but for sure we'll keep the coins and dice as they indeed usually are liked by collectors. We might skip the rest and keep it simple indeed.

We finally are revising the tuck box to have it more competitive but we truly would want to print at USPCC, to make our first deck epic and memorable. We believe in the project and will do everything in our power to make it happen.

Thanks so much for your kind reply and we'd love to have your support.

Fede and Lene
PS: you can see some initial promo photos for the prototype on our instagram: @friscards