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Start them at 99 cents, generate a lot of interest, and get more people lined up for a potential bidding war.
Does anyone know if shadows will complicate the printing process? I was doing more work on the kind of spades and I really like how this is going.
The Bicycle Genesis deck has similar shading, but I think yours is much nicer looking in how it's used. I'm really liking the direction this is taking.
Many people forget that a custom deck doesn't have to be some baroque, over-the-top complete redesign and remodel of the basic Anglo-Rouen design. T11, much to many people's chagrin, has sold many successful and attractive decks where the face cards were little more than color tweaks. I think this is a beautiful design tweak to the USPC face design and will stand out nicely while at the same time being wholly recognizable and easy to work and play with.
And go back to that multi-angled design for the mini-logos on the back! That was actually very cool. So many other decks on the market adhere to a rigid gridlike pattern and that design gave yours some real character - "conformity" without truly conforming.
Like the new back! The kind of wave effect it creates is really cool.
Any plan for the ace of spades, number, or court cards yet?
Like the new back! The kind of wave effect it creates is really cool.
Any plan for the ace of spades, number, or court cards yet?
Hmm, speaking of waves, you might try arranging the logo symbols in something other than a rectilinear grid pattern, like some sort of wave pattern. That would play some interesting visual tricks on the eye during flourishes. At the very least, consider setting the grid pattern at an angle to distrup the strict left-right/up-down quality of it.
First, Gavin, welcome to the Discourse. I think you'll fit in very nicely here!
I have a few caveats you should keep in mind regarding this deck back.
1) it's clearly a one-way back. Some collectors, many magicians and nearly all poker players won't use a deck with an obvious one-way back. (Cardists aren't as fussy!) It can easily be made two-way with some simple tweaks.
2) I think it was last year that Theory11 came out with the Monarchs deck. They supposedly trashed most of an entire print run because the gold-on-black design just didn't look good, replacing it with a white-on-dark-blue color scheme of the same design. I discovered that they might very well have been right in doing so after I got a deck from a Kickstarter, the Misc. Goods Co. deck. They went with gold on black, and the fine detail work was completely lost. The metallic gold ink is just too dark against a black background for anything printed small or fine. Consider a different color scheme - perhaps yellow-on-black, or gold-on-white. Gold-on-white was very popular when T11 released the White Monarchs at some point after that; totally gorgeous.
3) Wanting a name with the word "myth" in it somewhere might confuse some collectors, since there's already a deck on the marked called "MOTH/MYTH". It's from Taiwan, and on the rare and expensive side, but enough people are aware of it now. The title as printed on the box is a little odd; picture in your head the word "MYTH" in capital letters, but the designers printed the "Y" with an "O" in the same space, so it appears to be a four-letter name with a very odd letter in the middle. A variant like "mythic" or "mythical" might still suit your desires without any of the possible market confusion.
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