Quote from: Morpheus on October 05, 2013, 08:47:35 AM

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The custom courts are beautiful (I especially like the London chick Madison works with.. I apologise for forgetting her full name). However one criticism that i have is that the deck is incomplete; as not all of the court faces are custom (Jack of Diamonds for example). Even if Madison only has like 9 real friends that he can put on his deck.. i honestly think he shouldve at least chosen someone else for his artist to depict on the remaining courts, instead of using standard USPCC faces. This incompleteness greatly depreciates the artistic value of the deck in my opinion. It's just one of those things that is so 'simple' to fix but is instead ignored.

Not sure if you are aware, and forgive me if you are but the Jack of Diamonds is actually a tribute to Daniel's son, Eli.(his signature can be seen on the side of the card) I'm not sure how old his son is, but if he is younger it would make sense why he couldn't use a custom face on the card. Now, this is just what I'm presuming about the card, so don't just take my word for it.

I think there's only one untouched court card in the Madison decks.  It's a Jack, but I guess it's not that Jack.  It's pretty plain to tell - it's the only one with the traditional, thicker line work.  Fine lines were used on the other portraits.

I like minimalism but not lazy minimalism. NOC is lazy.

Also, minimalism =\= no depth. T11 Monarchs are minimal, but the lack of depth makes the design extremely boring to look at. Likewise, adding simple depth to a NOC design, like a radial gradient, would make the cards far more appealing.

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