I'm glad the majority like the design! We knew the Gold/Green color combo wasn't as contrasting as the Silver/Brown combo, but the goal of these Decks were to be a Poker Set. Whenever you're playing Poker with a set the 2 Decks need to have different enough of a color combo to not accidentally get the Decks mixed up during the craziness of a Poker game.
This is kind of off topic, but your poker comment got me thinking. I LOVE the idea of a custom pair of playing cards that is designed for a game of poker. I've actually dreamed up a few designs in my head. I regularly play poker in a casino, and casinos typically use bridge-sized playing cards for poker. Are bridge sized playing cards any cheaper/easier to design for? Or would it kind of go against the custom playing card community aesthetics to make such a deck? (it wouldn't fit in a lot of collection displays/traditional card storage boxes) In any case, I would snap buy any decent bridge sized deck designed for play from one of the members of this community.
It's not that far off...
I get what you're saying - I know that poker pros or nearly anyone playing a lot of Texas Hold 'Em these days goes with a bridge-sized plastic deck set. The thing of it is, when you say "poker" and "custom", they can clash a little at that end of the poker scale. Sure, a bunch of guys playing beer-and-pretzels poker will grab any deck that looks cool and has all the cards in it, but the pros are much more limited in what they're seeking - they don't WANT custom, preferring traditional designs by far. Collectors, on the other hand, largely don't buy bridge decks - there's some, like me, who do, but for the typical adult playing with cards or performing with them, they're so adapted to poker cards that bridge cards feel too small in their hands. Even I find them a little strange to handle.
It would actually be a good thing to see, a custom bridge-sized deck. The closest we've come was "J Design" (spelled Desjgn), a pro-grade plastic deck company, that came to Kickstarter, twice, and failed each time trying to fund a new plastic deck set. The cards were fine, attractive, but totally standard - even the back design was fairly simple and plain in its design, nothing that would stand out to custom deck collectors. In other words, the cards were perfect for poker players, not so great for most everyone else on KS, and they didn't go anywhere.
