Gatorbacks
A Jackson Robinson Deck (pick one for me please)
Empire Bloodlines by Kings & Crooks
PICK JUST ONE. And not Empire Bloodlines, at least not until it's in people's hands.
Art deck, not sure what this means. In general, Uusi is the premier artistic team that is designing decks, although maybe not the best deck designers. And both Pagan and Hotcakes shipped in 2014 and I would vote for either. But a transformation deck has much more opportunity for art, and I think deserves to win this category.
I'd nominate Sawdust, but it won't ship until next year. So I nominate Clipped Wings instead.
An art deck would be a deck where the focus is more on the artwork. It's usually either a non-standard face, a transformation face or a semi-transformation deck (like Clipped Wings - a proper transformation deck has all the pips in their standard location and appearance, so CW is a semi-transformation). A perfect example would be the Stranger and Stranger Ultimate deck, or the numerous "art collective" decks. Many art decks don't even have pips in the center of the spot cards at all, replaced with a graphic, a painting, a photo, etc. Usually it's only the indices that will identify the cards in a deck that fully customized.
Uusi decks do conform to the basic designs of International standard faces, while at the same time being completely custom. As such, they are not art decks. If, in a given Uusi deck, the same style of imagery in the court cards was also applied to the spot cards, then perhaps that would be an art deck, especially if the spots were removed and replaced with paintings in that style. For example, if the Hotcakes deck had spot cards with artwork similar to that of the courts in the deck - perhaps scenes of people engaged in some kind of suggestive frivolity - that would be an art deck.
Technically, the tourist decks that have photos of a specific locale (a region, a city, a state, etc.) on every card would also qualify as art decks. But the comparison to something like an art collective deck might be like a comparison between a showing at an art gallery and a stack of paintings from a motel holding a "going out of business" sale, unless the photography of the tourist deck was truly stellar work, unlike that of nearly every tourist deck before it.
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