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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => Topic started by: geneva on February 04, 2015, 05:14:19 PM
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Islet Playing Cards (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740854974/islet-playing-cards?ref=nav_search)
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Is "Mixed patterns on backs of the cards" really a good idea? For one this makes the cards unplayable for almost any game. I do not understand this.
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Islet Playing Cards KS link (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740854974/islet-playing-cards?ref=nav_search)
I read the "these are not playable cards" around here a lot. This is just not a true statement. Would I play poker with these. No, but I can play solitaire all day long. I think poker was probably the last thing this designer was thinking. This is a Art deck, and that is it. She's not trying to make 1,000 decks. Looks like 50-100 decks to me.
I'm not just picking on you naggarwal, because I've probably said it myself before. For me, as a collector, going forward. I plan to look at a project for what it is, before making judgements.
As far as this deck. I like it. The Face cards are fun. The numbers are large. I think this would be great for younger kids to play with.
(Added link to this and first post)
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Is "Mixed patterns on backs of the cards" really a good idea? For one this makes the cards unplayable for almost any game. I do not understand this.
Some decks are made for serious card play. Some decks are a bit more whimsical, meant for absolutely unserious card play. This deck fits squarely in the latter category. It lacks many of the features found in a practical deck, but that doesn't render it unplayable - just less desirable to some, especially people who use cards for a specific purpose, such as magic or cardistry.
Trust me, I didn't understand them much when I first encountered such decks, either! They have their fans and can actually be quite fun and interesting - but they're not what you'd call "all-purpose." Not a crime, but more of a handicap when it comes to sales. The creator was smart in going for small-batch print runs, so she's not left holding the bag with a lot of unsold decks.
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I LOVE ART DECKS!
You just gotta appreciate the decks for the design and effort behind it.
Appreciate for its creativity, its theme and concept, not just, "can i play poker with these cards?"
There are plenty of playable poker decks in the market. Sometimes, you just gotta appreciate something thought out of the box. ;)
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Although she does say she already made these, and sold out of them, and now wants to make more.
So its a reprint. Or resale. Against KS terms technically. Well, maybe grey area.... :-\
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Against KS terms technically. Well, maybe grey area.... :-\
I think everything is in that grey area until KS gets about 100 complaints. Then they might think about shutting it down after they get another 100 complaints, but not likely.
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Interesting deck. She should make all the index suits the same size. I notice she is using the suit indicator for her courts for her suit index.
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I like the randomness of this deck. It looks fun from an observer point of view to me. Absolutely has some charm going for it.
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Is "Mixed patterns on backs of the cards" really a good idea? For one this makes the cards unplayable for almost any game. I do not understand this.
Some decks are made for serious card play. Some decks are a bit more whimsical, meant for absolutely unserious card play. This deck fits squarely in the latter category. It lacks many of the features found in a practical deck, but that doesn't render it unplayable - just less desirable to some, especially people who use cards for a specific purpose, such as magic or cardistry.
Trust me, I didn't understand them much when I first encountered such decks, either! They have their fans and can actually be quite fun and interesting - but they're not what you'd call "all-purpose." Not a crime, but more of a handicap when it comes to sales. The creator was smart in going for small-batch print runs, so she's not left holding the bag with a lot of unsold decks.
I think I see your point. I will back it and see how I feels about it later. I do like them on this second visit. I ordered a few. Also, she does have a uniform back design, which is not at all bad on eyes.
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Those patterns from backs with pips incorporated into them could be nice on faces of number cards in possible semi-transformation deck. Courts are the same for all suits :(