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rotating graphics. not a mirrored set but where the center of the card literally spins on the card.

I remember when I was younger heat pics were popular. not really sure if that's what it was really called. you had to heat the area up in order to reveal the pic underneath. Could it be something like that?

Cards and tuck made using hand made papyrus

A USPCC run of 200 AND the deck number printed directly on the box (rather than a deal or black space written on)

The cards themselves are embossed and have foil, so they will look exactly like the back of the tuckcase

Mike Ratledge wrote: Nope, no, no and nope again. Still, you are all giving this some thought again, maybe soon I can announce that someone has won themselves one of the 200 unique items that will be sold? I do know that I haven't given up that tidbit yet: there will only be exactly 200 of these - whatever they might be - and that's it, so it will be yet another VERY exclusive more than limited edition, as in not 1000 of them. I meant to, but I don't think that I said that before either, but whoever hits the nail on the head will get one of the very first of these made available - and we're not that far away from them being "for sale".

This has really been fun, folks! I have enjoyed it, and I think everybody else has as well! Too cool: it's just one of those things that I hear that hasn't been spread beyond an exclusive 'circle' and in this case it's a VERY tight loop of 2 people - myself here in Charleston and Lotrek in Athens Greece.

Time to get serious. I'll polish my previous answer then.

Since it's only an edition of 200, hand drawn and inked playing cards with a handmade tuck. Still a lot of work to be able to produce 200 unique decks though.

A handmade wooden tuckbox for the 200 LE decks !

^ This but ebony or laquered (Dark and shiny)

Black Polished Leather Tuckboxes!

Cards and tuck inked with pure gold

What about a signed (or personal message) on say the AoS sealed inside the tuck box.
Basically he'll take an uncut sheet, separate the cards by hand, sign the AoS and then seal them up in a hand folded tuck box like the Grosteque Signature Edition?

markjanderson wrote:What about a signed (or personal message) on say the AoS sealed inside the tuck box.
Basically he'll take an uncut sheet, separate the cards by hand, sign the AoS and then seal them up in a hand folded tuck box like the Grosteque Signature Edition?

THAT is actually a pretty cool idea. It would mean said creator would have to sit there at USPCC, and sign them all (200 isn't much, but 4000 would be), in between printing and applying the finish. Hmm...

Maddest Hammer wrote:

markjanderson wrote:What about a signed (or personal message) on say the AoS sealed inside the tuck box.
Basically he'll take an uncut sheet, separate the cards by hand, sign the AoS and then seal them up in a hand folded tuck box like the Grosteque Signature Edition?

THAT is actually a pretty cool idea. It would mean said creator would have to sit there at USPCC, and sign them all (200 isn't much, but 4000 would be), in between printing and applying the finish. Hmm...

Hahaa but that would mean lotrek would have to travel from greece to the US.

volantangel wrote:

Maddest Hammer wrote:

markjanderson wrote:What about a signed (or personal message) on say the AoS sealed inside the tuck box.
Basically he'll take an uncut sheet, separate the cards by hand, sign the AoS and then seal them up in a hand folded tuck box like the Grosteque Signature Edition?

THAT is actually a pretty cool idea. It would mean said creator would have to sit there at USPCC, and sign them all (200 isn't much, but 4000 would be), in between printing and applying the finish. Hmm...

Hahaa but that would mean lotrek would have to travel from greece to the US.

I can think of, and have been to, much worse places to be...

The Pope and/or a Rabbi will personally bless each deck of cards as it rolls through production.... then angels from heaven will sprinkle holy water on each deck. This is something I always wanted but they told me couldn't be done. Please prove them wrong!

rjtomlinson1977 wrote:The Pope and/or a Rabbi will personally bless each deck of cards as it rolls through production.... then angels from heaven will sprinkle holy water on each deck. This is something I always wanted but they told me couldn't be done. Please prove them wrong!

Blasphemy! Moisture ruins a deck, holy or not

In my best Jesse Pinkman voice, "Magnets, bitch."

Double deck tuck box!

To Strag's point, it's two different decks (a poker set) in a single tuck box.

not sure if this has been mentioned but what about ghost inking. more than one image inked on the card, different angles show different inks.

Cbkimble wrote:not sure if this has been mentioned but what about ghost inking. more than one image inked on the card, different angles show different inks.

I suggested lenticular cards and Mike said no.

A deck for which we are talking about since 200 posts...

I win !

well, with only 200 decks, it seems like these will be done by hand. Since he stated "they said it couldn't be done" was possibly b/c it can't be done with a printer but could be done by hand.

Or the other way around. - Fully handcrafted cards including handrolled 'linen' finish

wonder if we could play 20 questions with Mike/Lotrek. LOL

we've had eleven pages of 20 questions, and haven't come up with squat. Mike has said a couple times that "somebody" has gotten close, but has been otherwise eerily quiet...

I'm about out of ideas.

Tell us who got close Mike, please!
Either way each of us has pitched in at least two dozen ideas. So that only narrows it down a tiny bit.

Bear in mind, Mike said that there are 200 items, not that they're specifically decks. We already have handmade tucks (most recently via Lotrek for Grotesque) and hand made / inked cards (hell, that's how cards were made in the first place.) Two deck sets are rather common place (KEM anyone?) so I think that's out of the question. Let alone the fact that none of those suggestions are revolutionary enough to set the world afire.

I'm thinking it has something to do with Lotrek's foiling machine he procured for the Grotesque decks (he did procure that right? Or did he outsource?), we have foil on the back courtesy EPCC & that rather ghastly deck released today by Art of Play and D$D. So, I'm thinking it's beyond foil and something like a chroming process. I know you can chrome plastic, have they figured a way to chrome cards? That I think would be awesome, either chromed backs or court cards even chromed pips. And you're not limited to just shiny silver type chrome everyone thinks of, you can have a black chrome, brass chrome, nickel chrome, soft / hard chrome, hell, Destro had a chrome head even. I'm feeling like Bubba from Forrest Gump now... I do like chrome after all.

So, is it chromed decks? Either parts of the printing are chromed, or even chromed edges.

We know plastic can be chromed but absorbent materials such as paper not so much. You'd have to run a primer coat first to seal the paper off.

Embossing of the actual cards while still having a smooth enough finish to still be able to play with them