darkmatter -  Love the bones.  It's neat how you can take an overly used theme like bones and make it work.

No suit indicator for the courts - The card need to be identifiable at a distance.
A border around the indices
The index suit is not the same size as the rank of the card - Especially bad, if you don't have a suit indicator.
The index suit is on the right  - Less cards in your hand
images on the cut border - A marked deck

You broke almost every rule.  It's a good art deck, but I have to say this is no playable deck.  Far from it.  Do you want people to use your cards?  If not, that is ok.  It can be collectable.

Quote from: darkmatter on July 12, 2015, 12:42:57 PM

I doubt the cards in this deck will get too muddy. This tends to happen when you have soft gradients in your image and the printer used cannot reproduce the small variances in value between the pixels. Nearly all of the toning in this deck is done with solid black lines or pointillism also known as stippling.... As a result the cards mainly contain solid black lines and dots to create the illusion of shading. So if MPC can print black... we should be good to go. If the color saturation is lessened by their printing process I'll be pretty pissed... but let's just hope for the best. In the end it's just a deck of cards I had fun making and wanted to share. I assure you I want this deck to look as good in actuality as the digital cards I created.

I only have 39 decks left at this point, all the rest have been reserved... so if you are interested in this deck please reserve one before they are all gone.

Again... this can be done at darkmattercards.com - click the "order your deck" button and follow instructions. I might be doing a run of uncut sheets here shortly depending on the interest level. If you are interested just follow the same instructions for ordering a deck... but ask to be added to the uncut sheet list. If i get enough people interested I'll do one run of these.

Thanks,
Mat

It's pretty simple.  For small orders, their printing process is that they use a printer - a computer printer, not a fancy offset printer.  In essence, it's the larger, bulkier cousin of that Epson or HP sitting on the desk of your home office.  And just like them, they can be a little problematic at times with accurate representation of colors.  You say, "if they can print black, fine" - but there's black, and there's black...  Admittedly, though, they have more problems with color than black, I believe.

I'm not even sure if they have offset presses for larger orders - they may do them all digitally.  We had an article for CARD CULTURE that was about MPC and we were ready to go to "press" with it, but they refused to provide photos of their printing operations - they told us to use the ones on their website, which were way too low in resolution for the magazine.  It leads one to believe that there's something they don't want people seeing - but of course, since I can't see it, I can't say that with any degree of accuracy.

Did I miss somewhere where it said who the printer is?

I love your artwork, it's very imaginative and macabre. There's been a few macabre decks recently (with slight Lovecraftian themes especially), but I think you could have a great deck on your hands... or decks actually. This really should be four separate decks, in my opinion. This would make a great series of decks if you just fleshed each suit out into its own deck.

Another small thing I noticed was that the Diamonds suit doesn't have any diamonds in the indices. I'm not sure if that was on purpose or not.