Ooooh, shiny...
For tonight's battle, two "metal" decks face off in the arena...
Tally Ho Viper decks have a unique black-and-silver color scheme going for them, considered innovative at the time they were released during the early stages of the "black deck craze". The now-out-of-print circle backs had only silver on the black-pip faces, with red on the red-pip ones, while the currently-available fan backs have an all-silver design. It's a straight-forward reproduction of the original Tally Ho design, with the traditional Ace of Spades and Jokers (two identical, no "guarantee" joker). One gets the visual sensation that they're flourishing chrome when they're spinning these babies around...
DeckOne Industrial Edition, designed by Homer Liwag for Theory11, goes for a gritter, used look - and succeeds nicely. The box looks like burnished, worn chrome, even more so on the second edition's box - the cards are identical in both editions. The back design looks like something straight out of the second Death Star, while the courts have a "washed-out, worn-away" look to them that screams of the oppression of the Industrial Age - or maybe that's just the meds talking, it's hard to tell at times...
Otherwise, like nearly all T11-designed decks, the faces are USPC standard with a darker color scheme. It's hard to tell which way the identical jokers are supposed to be turned to be oriented correctly - it's not horizontally symmetrical, but it's also just some metallic "face" or something, with no distinct up or down to it. But there's no mistaking the industrial-looking Ace of Spades when it comes to up or down. The design aesthetic to me is a cross between "Star Wars" and Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", with maybe a dash of "Blade Runner".
So go ahead, duke it out and let me know what you think! As usual, voters who comment on their choice are entered in a random drawing for forum swag - see
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