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Posted: **Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:12 pm**

All this info is from the Oath Facebook page

Usually a deck is very time consuming to design. But what would happen if I was to set a strict time limit in design? Would that work towards making fast decisions?

The idea is to design and produce a deck of playing cards in just a few days. Like a play with time.

Third day: Taking the final shape. Now it will be left to rest for a couple of days while I'll be working on the pips. There is a general plan: 5 days work for the back, 4 days for the courts, 2 days for the pips, 2 days for the tuck case. Let's see...

Day 10: Yesterday I started working on the final files for the courts. Decisions regarding style are made on the way and will be applied to all courts at the end. I have completed 4 courts so far. Here is the King of Clubs.

I was not joking... It started as a play but within 12 days from the first rough sketches, the deck is already printed! Yesterday I came back home with a couple of sample sheets. Next week comes the foiling. Hopefully, I will have this deck with me in the 52+Joker Convention in October. Fingers crossed!

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:09 am**

Will this only be sold at the convention? Pretty fun to watch this design evolve over the last couple of weeks

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:15 am**

The back design looks a whole lot like Aristo Steampunk deck that was just recently fulfilled from a Kickstarter campaign. The front courts and pips are totally different.

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:56 am**

BaconWise wrote:Will this only be sold at the convention?

I'm quite sure Lotrek would never do that to us! Will likely come up for sale on his site a few weeks later after he's returned to Greece, like the Blue Damask.

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 4:44 am**

The back design reminds me of the Timeless deck, so guess this could somewhat be thought of as a V2?

Edit:
Damn, that was a frightening error there.... redacted!

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:10 am**

Timeless was done by Lotrek

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:13 am**

Smocito wrote:Timeless was done by Lotrek

Thanks for the correction... that error might have got me blocked by both of them

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:18 am**

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:37 am**

[quote="Decknowledgy"]The back design reminds me of the Timeless deck, so guess this could somewhat be thought of as a V2?

Actually, Yes. I asked Lotrek the same thing on FB, and this was his reply.

"Timeless is a deck I particularily love. It is always on my mind so yes, Timeless inspired but different"

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:40 am**

Looks like the same stock that was used for Less is used for Chronos aswell. I would love that.

By the way, punishment for not knowing that Timeless was done by Lotrek is sending a Lotrek deck of your choice directly to me within the next 24h!

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:57 am**

Me likey.

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:57 am**

Harvonsgard wrote:Looks like the same stock that was used for Less is used for Chronos aswell. I would love that.

By the way, punishment for not knowing that Timeless was done by Lotrek is sending a Lotrek deck of your choice directly to me within the next 24h!

Especially since I wrote a long post recently talking about his first 2 deck Timeless and Butterfly

Geez No one read around here

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:00 am**

We read short angry posts. Long technical posts loose our attention....What was I talking about?

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:21 am**

I went back to see if Decknowledgy had reply to that thread and maybe suffered from Alzheimer... He posted just before my post but 4 pages later after that so he gets the benefit of the doubt hehehehe

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:05 am**

badpete69 wrote:I went back to see if Decknowledgy had reply to that thread and maybe suffered from Alzheimer... He posted just before my post but 4 pages later after that so he gets the benefit of the doubt hehehehe

I know that it's one of the "L's" that did it but forgot whether it was Lotrek or Lorenzo, and I mistakenly stated Lorenzo in my post above

Harvonsgard wrote:By the way, punishment for not knowing that Timeless was done by Lotrek is sending a Lotrek deck of your choice directly to me within the next 24h!

Glad I slipped past Pierre's prosecution, but speaking of sending a Lotrek's deck to Harvonsgard, Timeless is still available at rsvp magic for extremely cheap, but to compensate on my mistake, I shouldn't be sending to you but instead send a deck of Timeless back to Lotrek (and make a wish that he foil-prints it with five colors and send it back to me 10 yrs later

)

Posted: **Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:32 am**

Glad you are giving Lotrek a couple of weeks (converting real time into Lotrek time). No worries. I’ll pick up the error decks.

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2019 10:51 am**

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2019 3:25 pm**

Oops! I just saw this thread... Thanks for posting, hsbc.

Yes, CHRONOS is actually a rip off of my TIMELESS deck.

I guess all decks that have gears and clockwork are somewhat similar but I've become allergic to the word "Steampunk" although I once liked it.

Anyway, this was an experiment: Go from scratch to finished in only a few days and I'm quite happy with the result.
I'm not sure if I will present the deck in the Convention. The plan is to have some decks with me but they will be available to all. I'll give more details in my newsletter.

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2019 3:42 pm**

Timeless... Chronos...... Lotrek, hopefully your next one will be "Aion"

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2019 4:03 pm**

Kurama wrote:Timeless... Chronos...... Lotrek, hopefully your next one will be "Aion"

No joke, I considered that name, too! But I needed something more generic.

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2019 6:53 pm**

Lotrek wrote:Go from scratch to finished in only a few days and I'm quite happy with the result.

...said montenzi never

Posted: **Thu Sep 26, 2019 5:28 am**

vasta41 wrote:
Lotrek wrote:Go from scratch to finished in only a few days and I'm quite happy with the result.
...said montenzi never

Well, everybody’s creative process is different... What Lotrek lacks in procrastination, he more than compensates in his perfectionist nature when it comes to timely deliveries.[emoji4]

No offence to both - Lotrek and Alexey are among my favourite card designers.

Posted: **Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:08 am**

Time is possibly my favorite theme of life - ever. I have an MtG "Time Control" deck (Blue/U being my favorite color...). Love the Timeless deck by Lotrek, and really looking forward to an improvement/sequel from him.

Posted: **Thu Sep 26, 2019 10:09 am**

Magic Tapp wrote:What Lotrek lacks in procrastination, he more than compensates in his perfectionist nature when it comes to timely deliveries.[emoji4]

One thing he doesn't lack is procrastination, he has it in abundance. Might be a new deck theme in there. Not for me though.

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Posted: **Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:12 am**

From Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oathplayingcar ... 8267967939

That shiny foil on the back

Posted: **Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:32 am**

I quite like this one. A potential first Lotrek purchase.

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Posted: **Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:53 am**

I'll be getting one if possible.

Posted: **Wed Oct 02, 2019 8:23 pm**

I'm definitely in when they're released. But am I the only one who noticed the implication of 'collector's edition'? Will this be another deck with a player's edition campaign? I really like the Ambassadors player's editions so I'm all for that!

Posted: **Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:17 pm**

Beautiful as always. Such impeccable work, just exquisite.

Posted: **Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:34 am**

From email notification:

The Collector's Edition is 220 decks in total, all numbered. Some of them were sold at the 52Plus Joker convention and the rest will be available on SATURDAY Oct 26 at 10:00am NYC time through our website

All orders will ship after a week, on the 2nd of November. Really!

Thank you,
OathPlayingCards

I believe it's the cato sending this notice, because Lotrek simply does NOT have TIME

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