seasons cards by daniel winegar (KS)

[Rob Wright]

seasons cards

The Design

I watched people play a lot of different games, and when people hold cards in their hands, they arrange them to see only the small index images in the top corners. When I watched people play speed games, I asked them where they looked on the card to quickly see which card it was, and they indicated to the index images as well. After looking at actual card use, the center images seem unnecessary. Once I got rid of the center images, the cards had a much more open feeling of space and simplicity.

[Don Boyer]

If someone wants the pinnacle of minimal, this is it.

The biggest hurdle this project has is that the creator is selling by the four-pack and the brick rather than letting people choose a few decks.  If I wanted five blue decks, I'd have to buy five of every deck.

This is fine for certain games, but there's a reason why cards have faces.  Even with the indices, each card looks too much like the others.  Forget using them for magic - cards have to look distinctively different from each other.

[HankMan]

Very simple but I think I will get bored of this way too quickly compared normal cards.

What if you have just simple custom suit at the center of the cards?

[Don Boyer]

Very simple but I think I will get bored of this way too quickly compared normal cards.

What if you have just simple custom suit at the center of the cards?

I've seen this type of deck before.  Every once in a while, someone pushes minimal design to the precipice and this is the result.  Some don't go quite as far and make a deck like you suggested - but then all the cards look like Aces.

[PurpleIce]

If someone wants the pinnacle of minimal, this is it.

I feel like i have actually seen this line many times in this forum....

Time and time again, people push minimalistic designs to the edge. Gotta give it to them somehow...just not in cash.

[Don Boyer]

If someone wants the pinnacle of minimal, this is it.

I feel like i have actually seen this line many times in this forum....

Time and time again, people push minimalistic designs to the edge. Gotta give it to them somehow...just not in cash.

If one removed any single element from this deck - perhaps the pips? - it would no longer even qualify as a deck of playing cards anymore.  If that's not the pinnacle of minimalist design, nothing is.  The only thing left would be to remove the patterns on the back - but that would make the product into a mere commodity at that point, where there's no longer differentiation between brands, like when you buy milk from the store.  Pasteurized, homogenized cow milk is pasteurized, homogenized cow milk, regardless of the brand.

And yes, not in cash! 

[ddhburns]

Like simplifying a novel by removing all that confusing writing and just leaving the page numbers. Not to my taste whatsoever.

[HankMan]

I believe there are people who like this though