I sent payment and I am waiting for the confirmation so I can log-in/pick up a few of these decks. I am super stoked for the silver version as well as the soon to come gold. I think the gold looks absolutely amazing.

I appreciate the back design on these. Super simple, but still interesting enough. Plus his KS video reminded me of my entire life, although I'm more dedicated to music, but I will pick some of these up I think.

Jokers:

I'll say here what I said over at UC..

Had these been reasonably priced, say somewhere between $6 and $8 with the regular brick discounts and sensible shipping I'd be in for a brick or two of each color. However with their international shipping prices and the deck price I'd be paying $20 per deck. That's far from reasonable and a no-go for me.

When did the Buck twins stop producing decks that were meant to be used?

Exactly how I feel, although minus the shipping issue. I was going to buy a brick of these no problem. After adding 6 of the collectors edition to my card, it only applied the 10% off deal. That wasn't too bad and I was about to pull the trigger but was experimenting with different combinations. Then they removed the 10% deal...

4 decks at around $45 dollars plus shipping is sort of crazy. If they actually said how many were printed then it might justify the price. Like if there was only 500-1000 printed.

I totally get where you are coming from. When you hand ink something with an actual pen, you have to make sure your final inking is really smooth and clean. Then you scan into Illustrator and trace the image. Whatever is not smooth needs to be re done. This tutorial helped me when I was first starting: http://gomedia.us/zine/tutorials/from-sketch-to-vector-illustration/

On their instagram they said these will be here on Friday: http://instagram.com/p/s-RQ62q9ZB/

I really like the way these are shaping up now:

Here is an example of the court cards. There are different symbols tied into most of them. Like I said, a lot of influence on these was the first few versions of Smoke and Mirrors, but I still enjoyed some of the details of the now classic courts:

Finally up and running again. Messing around with some late night ideas on the back design.

I sense a free mason.

I'm not really into the whole minimalistic back but let's wait and see the rest of the cards.

  Thanks for the comments. I am finding that a lot of people aren't too sure about minimalist backs. I am going to play around with some ideas. I'll probably print a few from MPC with the simple design for personal use.

EPCC as of right now. They allow for a smaller print run than USPCC and I really like the way their Exquisite deck handles, but I am also really still a huge fan of USPCC. I feel like for my first effort I should try for the smaller run and less expensive option.

I am going to run a kickstarter campaign once I am all finished.

Currently I'm working on the jokers. Not sure if I am going to just have the same jokers or make each one unique. A lot of choices to be made for sure. I am going to be super stoked to get a prototype to hold. MPC is an awesome company making it super affordable for pretty much anyone to experiment with different designs. Wish it was around when I was creating effects eight or so years ago.

Hey guys:

I am working on this custom deck called Low Reef's.

I am into different sorts of cards, but my favorite are the more simplistic and minimal decks such as Wynn's, Ace Fulton's,Virginia Slims, etc.

One of my favorite back designs is also the original Smoke and Mirror's back from Dan and Dave.

I think that you can have best of both worlds, simple and ornate. I also like a bit of mystery in designs, hiding (or at least trying) odd things and incorporating them into the design.

I am only sharing the back design for now, as the courts are all going to be standard, but modified, taking out some of the details, similar to Smoke and Mirrors, but leaving a lot more than they did.

Here you have the original sketch, the back design, and an idea for the card box. I need to do jokers still and I am debating on the Ace of Spades. I want everything as normal as possible as I am more on the magician side of things and appreciate having normal cards for certain effects.

Please let me know what you guys think! I still have tinkering to do but I like to let things sit for a day or two and come back to them with a fresh mind.

I picked up a couple bricks. Super stoked. And it clearly says printed by the US playing card company on the website, which has been pointed out now numerous times... Either way, Blaine's decks are some of the best i've ever handled so I think the quality should stay the same here.