Something Wicked This Way Comes!

[Widdee]

With the amount of hype, sounds like we've got a Venexiana: Madison deck coming our way. Sorry, but while I look forward to what's coming down the pipe, I won't buy into the hype machine bro. Just come out with it or at least stop pissing on my boots and telling me it's raining.

Give'm hell Chach!

[OnTheGrind]

"Something Wicked This Way Comes" is a reference to Ray Bradbury's novel.

Hahahaha, shows how uncultured I am

Just read the wikipedia aaannddd there DOES seem to be a "mirror maze"

[Cbkimble]

Is it possible that it's a foil deck. Instead of pressing paper together, foiled is pressed together creating foil card stock.

[wahl0108]

"Something Wicked This Way Comes" is a reference to Ray Bradbury's novel.

Hahahaha, shows how uncultured I am

Actually, it's a line from Shakespeare. Bradbury used it as his title, but it's originally from Macbeth. Both are fantastic reads though

[MagikFingerz]

Wahl wins.

[Godzillian]

okay, so i've been thinking and I thought this was way off base, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense...

a deck of all mirror cards. Something Wicked "this way comes?" don't you mean, something wicked comes this way?

bright and shiny, but dark at the same time? mirrors reflect light, but are otherwise dull/dark...

set the world of playing cards on fire? Well IDK, but it is something every magician would want, so many gaff cards, and think of all the tricks that are possible!

If you've had one, you've had them all... I could only find one mirror deck via my quick and dirty search, if you had that one, you had them all?

Maybe I'm reaching, but who knows! here's giving it yet another attempt

Did you mean this? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/13 ... irror-deck

Also, Mike did say that this was never done before because it can't be done... but the mirror deck has been done before! Nonetheless, it could be a mirror deck... but for Venexiana Dark. A whole mirror gaff deck for a custom deck most likely has never been done before. The kickstarter I posted is for a mirror gaff deck for Bikes.

Additionally, Mike also said:

If there was one thing that (as a connoisseur collector) you would absolutely have no other choice but to turn off the old ticker or jump?

So this new thing must also appeal to collectors, not just magicians.

Wahl wins.

You don't mean he guessed it correctly!? Unless you're in on it too... DDD: Or you could just be referring to the where-"Something wicked this way comes"-from argument.

[MagikFingerz]

Yep, I just meant he won in being the "Most cultured"

[Sher]

Wahl wins.

Yup. Wahl wins. Lol.

Thanks for pointing that out, Wahl. I even read Macbeth in high school and missed the reference, so it's nice to know

[Mike Ratledge]

No, no, not & nope. Here's an antique pictorial landscape format card from the early 1910's:

[Mike Ratledge]

Obviously we know who, and we know that it is not Dark Venexiana because that has already had a preview. So...??

If you were a magician or cardists this would make your moves gleam and dazzle the eyes, but if you were a collector it would be your eyes ablaze with satisfaction! 2+2≠0 people.

[wahl0108]

Holographic foil on the back of the cards? Or maybe having three-year-olds coat them all in glitter? Or maybe even gold flecks...

[Eoghann]

Iridescent inks!

[Jock1971]

pips and courts watermarked so they are `inside` the cards.

Yep, I just meant he won in being the "Most cultured"

Isn`t wahl was a She not a He?

[wahl0108]

Yep, I just meant he won in being the "Most cultured"

Isn`t wahl was a She not a He?

You're right, Jock, no worries. But I suppose it was my own fault for the confusion since I used my last name and not my first. Oh well

[OnTheGrind]

Obviously we know who, and we know that it is not Dark Venexiana because that has already had a preview. So...??

If you were a magician or cardists this would make your moves gleam and dazzle the eyes, but if you were a collector it would be your eyes ablaze with satisfaction! 2+2≠0 people.

maybe the edges of the cards are colored/foiled/have something fancy to them. Art when put in new deck order? Holographic ink? who knows

[volantangel]

But but D$D just said they are doing foiled cards ! But im not holding my breath for them to be stunning, its D$D afterall.

[rousselle]

Isn`t wahl was a She not a He?

You're right, Jock, no worries. But I suppose it was my own fault for the confusion since I used my last name and not my first. Oh well

And your first name is... Pat?

[Jock1971]

Is it guess the name now.....................I Guess ....Brigid

[sinjin7]

Gilt edges, maybe done in a dark gunmetal gray.

[volantangel]

Proper glow in the dark ink ! Not that UV nonsense since i cant find a blacklight

[lolo]

A tarot deck...

[Maddest Hammer]

Nah, Shane did that already. And I have a gilded tarot deck from Piatnik, so not that either. Mike said it was something all cardists and magicians would love or want, so we should be asking MagicFingerz if there was one thing he could have with his cards, what would it be. Also, he mentioned the custom tucks Lotrek made for the Grotesque deck. Paul will hand-cut and sign a custom Encarded tuck for you, so that is out.
How about serial numbers actually printed on the decks and tucks like is done with paper money, sequential and non repeating. So deck 0001 really is deck 0001.

[Mike Ratledge]

Just remember: it's something that is truly going to be both different, make playing card history and set a new precedent for the hobby & collecting as well! Good guesses, really! Keep 'em coming...

[montecarlojoe]

Obviously we know who, and we know that it is not Dark Venexiana because that has already had a preview. So...??

If you were a magician or cardists this would make your moves gleam and dazzle the eyes, but if you were a collector it would be your eyes ablaze with satisfaction! 2+2≠0 people.

Built in lasers!

Rhinestones!

Tortoiseshell Cards with inlaid mother of pearl!

Glitterball addon!

Dual Branding = Tallybikes!

[Jock1971]

Been done bit not on a new deck......no indices

[chach]

Just remember: it's something that is truly going to be both different, make playing card history and set a new precedent for the hobby & collecting as well! Good guesses, really! Keep 'em coming...

But is it going to be iconic?

Seriously, this much hype better be worth it or you'll be worse than Madison man.

[Jock1971]

Time travelling cards

[Jock1971]

Cards that have to be conjured into existence by a spell provided by lotrek

[Maddest Hammer]

I think I've got it figured out Mike started this thread to glean all of our ideas to jumble into one huge transformational transforming minimal invisible holographic metallic handmade carbon fiber disappearing hand numbered glow in the dark recycled paper printed one of a kind decks printed by Keebler elves at EPCC, finished at USPCC, packaged by Jackson's minion(s) in tuck cases made by Encarded, and foiled at Half Moon, and all sent to Canada, so EVERYONE has to pay international shipping, except vjose (who will still find something to complain about) and CBJ (who will somehow find 4 different Bicycle versions).

I will apologize in advance if anyone took offense to anything I wrote here. Just wanted to pack all the, um, more interesting ideas here in one place to give everyone a good laugh, cuz I, for one, am out of ideas about what this could possibly be.

[Jock1971]

Cards that turn into furry creatures if you spill water on them