Lets get happy on Absinthe! I love this deck

Yeap! Siegismyname is right. Thats is the gist of what they said. (i didn't you speak chinese). Oh wait.. you're from singapore.. I should have known.

Anyway yeah. This time when they release the 3rd cage Garden. Im def going to get one or two becuase I missed thei first two and those are now super expensive to say the least. XD

@Don - My head is going in circles really. But okay. YEAY! A L.S. deck! to add to the card collection

@Drian - unfortunately I don't own a silver SS.
Bees are one ofthe more durable decks I admit but I also don't have a coterie deck.

But I really like the Legends deck. (now gotta bug the boyfriend to get me one of each mwahahha)

This is the old thread for contests.

http://aethercards.com/discourse/playing-card-plethora/contests/

(yeay I used the search function)!!!

Very curious to see how it turns out when it is finally printed. Not a huge fan, but definitely not the worst deck design out there. I agree with Lara about the asian styled decks out there, seems to be a lot. Since I am somewhat of a picky buyer, these oriental types of decks I tend to pit against each other and choose from there... so they have to be pretty spectacular for me to purchase them at the moment.

Well the east has always had this mystical and mysterious appeal to the western culture. So there is a lot of material to work with when choosing an Asian themed anything.  you have to admit that Asian dragons are far sexier than the western ones. 

I havn't been disappointed with the Asian-themed decks that have come out so far.

I think the only biggest downside that this deck might have is the one way back. because we all know how majority of our populace prefer two back back designs. For me. I kind of like the one way of this. Since I don't really do magic or anything it doesn't really matter for me.

Is there a rise of Asian Themed decks?
Its not a bad thing I'm just loving it all!! I'm such a patriotic asian person.

Takefu is a Japanese word because I speak chinese and there is no "takefu" word in Chinese unless its a dialect.

The joker is a warrior with a Naginata as a weapon. So in all probability its a Japanese inspired deck. The dragon design is hard to say. Because it looks like the dragon in Dragon Ball. but then again this kind of dragon is both Chinese and Japanese.

in the middle of the dragon in th back design I see 2 Kanji or chinese characters but I can't make the calligraphy out.

I can read the "生" which means Student or  Birth in Chinese. But in Japanese this character means Raw, Crude, Pure,
The first Character I can't quite make out because the ink is all over the place but if I'm not mistaken it might be this charater "武" which is the Chinese for Fierce, or martial (as in martial arts) this is also the first character for WUSHU a Chinese martial arts.

Then again the first character might also be "龙" which is the character for Dragon.

so 龙生 together might be the best choice "birth of the dragon" or "dragon's purity" There is no real translation to it.


**sigh** my Chinese is really rusty.

Yeap This photo IS just a greyscale version. If you take a look at the gradient on the the background of the Bicycle Logo.

And I was agreeing with you that the deck most likely is in color. I also went on to say that grey-scaled decks look boring, and I doubt USPCC would put something through like that.

P.S. - The "dragon" reference just slipped by mind. When reading your post, I knew it was a griffin, but my mind skipped over it when I was posting. It looks like a dragon, though, doesn't it?

P.P.S. - This deck reminds me of Harry Potter! Griffindor!

Penalty of 10 points to  the house of KPopFever

@Alex - nothing is happening.
@Don - hahah just enough to please.
@Ben - yeap. it goes to show you are really part of this insane family.

Heya Scott,

I haven't been doing magic in about 2 years now but before I always love doing Self working tricks. and Story telling effects. And of course the classic ACR routine. I wasn't very good at magic which is why i always chose self working ones.

Sorry about this guys! It took me forever.
Anyway this is the codes I used to change my Ultimate Profile Look and Feel.

I'm not very good with codes or tutorials about it as well I was just clicking and playing around and this is what i got.

If you want to know where to put these codes.

At the top of the Site. Click on Profile. That will take you to your profile page. Then below the "YOU ARE HERE" hover the mouse pointer to the MODIFY PROFILE option and then select ULTIMATE PROFILE.
Then scroll to the very end and enter the code inside the customization box.





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Are those bullet holes with smoke coming out of them?
at first I thought they were jelly fish ^_^

What is your inspiration for your deck design? I always love knowing about the reson behind a design I think it helps the designer and the other people understand it more and appreciate it more.

Oh you should read one of my older posts that may help in case you get stuck somewhere
http://aethercards.com/discourse/design-development/cards-history-meanings-and-more/#top

OMG! I live in Beijing ad this is by far one of the more ORIENTAL looking decks that are dubbed to be Asian -inspired!
I love the fact that you are going to incorporate the Phoenix, Dragon, Tiger, and Tortoise to this design! I am a fan of the 4 mythical beasts of china! If I am not mistaken there is a 5th mythical beast which is the huang Long or the yellow dragon.

This is a deck I am definitely going to add to my must buy!!!

So stoked! I'm not going to add on to what everyone already said about the boarders and the back design.

But I really feel strongly against the indice. The "7" upside down looks like a "4" e might want to rethink the indice design.

I have to really say I'm loving the THEME of this deck! ***faints***

xoxo
Lara