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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Diamond Awards Archive => Playing Card Plethora => 2019 Diamond Awards - Nominee Topics => Topic started by: Don Boyer on August 11, 2019, 05:14:05 AM
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Montenzi works from his base in New Zealand. He made quite a splash with his introductory deck, Haere Mai, back in 2016. During the awards period for 2018-2019, he designed and produced two decks that were sequels to his previous releases.
Hello Tiki v2, the sequel release to Hello Tiki, came out initially in one version, a red deck, but Montenzi introduced as a stretch goal a very striking "Black Ultra" version, printed with black ink and silver and red metallic foils, and later also produced a white version. The Black Ultra was printed by Cartamundi while the other two versions were printed by USPC.
The NEO:Wave decks were the follow-up to his NEO: deck releases. The Classic edition was printed by USPC, while the Ultra edition (foil and ink) and the Ultra Player's edition (ink without foil) were printed by Cartamundi.
Kickstarter page for Hello Tiki v2 (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montenzi/hello-tiki-v2-playing-cards)
Kickstarter page for NEO:Wave (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montenzi/neo-wave-playing-cards)
Artist's homepage/online store (http://montenzi.nz)
Studio's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/montenzi/)
UPDATE: the artist contacted me to inform me that he works under the name Montenzi now. Also, he stated that the photos we posted of the Hello Tiki V2 project, obtained from his Kickstarter project, were not current and that the finished product does not look like this - we have removed the photos and invited the artist to post current photos.
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Thank you, Don!
Here is the video review of my Hello Tiki V2 deck by Magic Orthodoxy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pxpkb5iHQA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pxpkb5iHQA)
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Awesome deck by an awesome artist.