WWI 100 yr Anniversary Playing Cards now live on Kickstarter

[badpete69]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/332910320/wwi-100-yr-anniversary-playing-cards

[MrMollusk]

HOLY CLIPART, BATMAN.

Even if it was designed from scratch, it just looks like each element was made individually, and a deck was assembled from a pool of prefabricated art.

Next.

[rousselle]

The back design reminds me of the Ace decks by Carta Mundi.

I'm always of a mixed mind when it comes to decks that "commemorate" a war. I backed the Civil Unrest decks, despite the fact that they contain Confederate elements, and this deck likewise makes me uneasy. Granted, the Germany (and Russia) of World War I are not quite as emblematic of outright evil as their successor states in WWII, but… I don't know. It has to be handled carefully. This design isn't awesome enough to lift me past that.

[Rob Wright]

The line work on the back is an exact copy of the original. He took out some detail to add the 1914-2014 and changed the pic of the plane. I'm not saying this guy didn't put effort into bringing all the images together. I like the idea of it, but please stop with the clip art decks.

[Don Boyer]

I get a kick out of how the card back image on the box and the actual card back DON'T MATCH.

I think the corners aren't standard - they appear smaller.  I nearly thought this was a faro deck when I first saw it!

Clip art or not, it sure LOOKS like clip art.  Not likely to win many fans around here, myself included.