Play Fair: A Custom Deck of Cards (KS)

[Fess]

Friendly reminder is late haha. Seven hours left on this one!

Play Fair: A custom deck of playing cards

Congratulations Kei Izumi on a successful kickstarter.

[kei izumi]

Hello guys. Finally the Play Fair project has been successfully funded! Thanks for your all supports from Japan! Kei

[Lee Asher]

Congratulations Kei!

[kei izumi]

Congratulations Kei!

Thanks for your help! <3

[HolyJJ]

15 Play Fair decks arrived at my residence yesterday... and Kei was spot on -- the cards really do feel very very very similar to the Brown Quality deck.

The paper itself appears to be the same as what LPCC and EPCC use for their Diamond and Master finish cards, respectively. ‎If it's not the exact same paper, then it's at least 95% similar.

The difference, is the coating. Diamond and Master Finish cards have that incredible slickness to them, hence the superior glide. The coating on the Brown Quality deck and the Play Fair deck is less slick... as a result, moves like push-through false shuffles are a harder to do, where as with Diamond/Master finish it is effortless. However, don't get me wrong -- the Play Fair cards are still very impressive and the overall handling for the is excellent. As I've already said, almost the exact same handling as the Brown Quality deck.

Kei said in his last update that the borders turned out thicker than he wanted... but personally, I think they look much better this way -- makes them look more like a proper casino deck. I like it.‎
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The price for these decks included worldwide shipping... and so 15 decks for $125 makes them the best priced decks I've received from any KS campaign. I should have picked up a few more!

[Fess]

Very nice HolyJJ. You're making me excited to get my paws on mine haha. They should be here I guess later this month probably. I decided I should check out those snappy looking wooden boxes as well as the decks.

[HolyJJ]

Fes, when yours does arrive, please do post your verdict on them over here at PCF.

Seeing as the handling on this deck is different, I'm personally interested in reading and hearing about what people think about this one.

In my opinion, this handling is very much suited to, well, fair play in a casino environment... after all, shuffling and (fair) dealing is what cards are used for in casinos. In which case, the lesser slickness (in comparison to the diamond and master finish by LPCC and EPCC) wouldn't be a detriment, as cardistry, false shuffles, and magic would be non-factors.

[Fess]

Fes, when yours does arrive, please do post your verdict on them over here at PCF.

Seeing as the handling on this deck is different, I'm personally interested in reading and hearing about what people think about this one.

In my opinion, this handling is very much suited to, well, fair play in a casino environment... after all, shuffling and (fair) dealing is what cards are used for in casinos. In which case, the lesser slickness (in comparison to the diamond and master finish by LPCC and EPCC) wouldn't be a detriment, as cardistry, false shuffles, and magic would be non-factors.

I'll do that, absolutely.