NEW DECK: From Walgreens, Play Right Standard Playing Cards

[Don Boyer]

I agree. Classic back design, Arrco faces...

Was it Walgreens that made the decision or USPCC not wanting Studs being distributed under the Walgreen name anymore?

Walgreens owns the Studs design.  It was at different times printed by Holye and Arrco before they were USPC subsidiaries.  It was strictly a choice on Walgreens part to drop Studs in favor of Play-Rights.  Sounds crazy, since Studs weren't all that expensive to make in the first place and I can't imagine Play-Rights are that much cheaper, if at all.  If they wanted to drop costs by offering only a single color each for standard and jumbo index, as dumb as the idea sounds, there's no reason they couldn't have kept the Stud design.

Yet another in the ever-growing list of corporate blunders...

[GBAllison]

OK, I'm in need of some educating.  I've been lurking and watching and trying to follow along.  And I get it when the big playing card houses come out with stunning back designs and luscious tuck boxes, even though the courts aren't custom.  But I don't get the popularity of $2 decks from Walgreen's.

Clearly, there's a love for the studs, the old studs but not the new ones.  And now that these new decks are out, people are racing to buy out the entire stock in selected stores.  So I look at the pictures and all I see are plain ordinary decks with standard courts and unremarkable backs.  Certainly Walgreen's isn't the Mont Blanc of playing cards.  I'm obviously missing something huge.

Anyone care to help me "get it"?  Please?

And thanks!

[xela]

OK, I'm in need of some educating.  I've been lurking and watching and trying to follow along.  And I get it when the big playing card houses come out with stunning back designs and luscious tuck boxes, even though the courts aren't custom.  But I don't get the popularity of $2 decks from Walgreen's.

Clearly, there's a love for the studs, the old studs but not the new ones.  And now that these new decks are out, people are racing to buy out the entire stock in selected stores.  So I look at the pictures and all I see are plain ordinary decks with standard courts and unremarkable backs.  Certainly Walgreen's isn't the Mont Blanc of playing cards.  I'm obviously missing something huge.

Anyone care to help me "get it"?  Please?

And thanks!

I don't see why people are rushing to get them, they're not very hard to find.

The reason people like them, though, is that their stock is much stiffer than modern USPC decks. In fact, when I bought them, I thought they were made in Ohio. The best comparison I can make is that they feel like the Ohio Bicycle Masters decks, perhaps just the slightest bit stiffer.

[Don Boyer]

OK, I'm in need of some educating.  I've been lurking and watching and trying to follow along.  And I get it when the big playing card houses come out with stunning back designs and luscious tuck boxes, even though the courts aren't custom.  But I don't get the popularity of $2 decks from Walgreen's.

Clearly, there's a love for the studs, the old studs but not the new ones.  And now that these new decks are out, people are racing to buy out the entire stock in selected stores.  So I look at the pictures and all I see are plain ordinary decks with standard courts and unremarkable backs.  Certainly Walgreen's isn't the Mont Blanc of playing cards.  I'm obviously missing something huge.

Anyone care to help me "get it"?  Please?

And thanks!

Actually, many people missed the old Studs, before the box redesign, but the new Studs had fans as well.  Basically, they were a USPC-made deck on par quality-wise with Bicycles but sold for less and with a back design that had character.

The older comments prior to mine about people scrambling to find these Play-Right cards had a lot to do with the fact that they were released very slowly and in a staggered manner when they first came out, meaning some could find them while others couldn't.  Now, especially since Walgreens bought out the CVS chain, the new Play-Rights are pretty easily found.  The stock appears to be pretty good, but the design itself is very disappointing, and the fact that only the red decks come in standard index and only the blue decks come in jumbo index makes them in much lower demand among poker players.