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Hi friends! Hoping to do something appreciated, I would like to share our new project, coming to Kickstarter on May 10th: the Market Manipulation Initial Deck Offering. I am planning to launch at 5pm CET / 11am ET / 8am PT. Here the prelaunch link:







The project is a satirical take on the financial world in the 80s, built on greed and arrogance. There are two decks, the Bull edition (one-way figures) and the Bear edition (two-way figures). Both decks are double foiled and made by Boschiero & Newton, whereas the cards are made by Cartamundi on B9 stock.
All cards are custom illustrated and full of financial references. The suits represents the 4 division of a made up bank: Investment Banking, Trading, Sales and Quantitative Analysis. We went to great depth creating a back story for each of the court cards, which you can read (together with clear pics of the cards) on this microsite https://www.luneplayingcards.com/market ... ing-cards/.






The tucks are made with matt paper and double foiled. The Bull Edition is light green paper with petroleum green (dark green with blue-ish reflections, very pretty if I may) and gold; the Bear Edition will be made out of a dark pink matt paper with ruby and silver foil. I am sure of all the colors, except for the paper of the Bear Edition, for which I am going back and forth between two tones. The mockups I made of the Bear Edition, though, will be fairly similar to the final product. Here a link to the prototype video: https://youtube.com/shorts/JtFuafD82jM?feature=share

Any feedback is most appreciated! I'll be checking in in case someone has questions, or you can always hit me up on Instagram. Sharing some pictures of the prototypes shot by the extremely talented Ryan Smith (Except the video, which I took to show the reflections on the tuck). Oh, and for those of you that like them, you can find a giveaway running until May 8th on our Instagram page!





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Thanks for posting and good luck

I just finished my second year in finance, might have to get these lol

Make Ken Griffin a Joker, and I'll buy a brick

hsbc wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 12:18 pm Thanks for posting and good luck

Thanks for fixing the post!

PiazzaDelivery wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 3:14 pm I just finished my second year in finance, might have to get these lol

It's a very fascinating world! We did kind of go with a bit of a hyperbole in the deck though, don't want to set excessive expectations

MagikFingerz wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 8:41 am Make Ken Griffin a Joker, and I'll buy a brick

Well a brick won't pay for the lawsuits I'm afraid
Although I can share the actual jokers, which I forgot to do above!

PROJECT IS LIVE
Time to make a pledge, oh I mean, accept the "Initial Deck Offer", invest in Lune Bank!

laitostarr777 wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 1:07 am PROJECT IS LIVE

Meant to post this yesterday, thanks!!

I really like the design and effort that's gone into this fully custome deck even with one-way full bosy courts. Have backed but it does look like will struggle to fund. Challenging times I fear.

Strag wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 7:19 am I really like the design and effort that's gone into this fully custome deck even with one-way full bosy courts. Have backed but it does look like will struggle to fund. Challenging times I fear.

Thanks for the support Strag Quick note in case you missed it: the Bull Edition is full one way figure, the Bear Edition is actually two-way symmetrical, it's the third picture or so from the top in the campaign. We only prototyped the Bull, hence why most pictures show the full one way courts!

It is a bit challenging indeed, it feels like those of us who don't have a large loyal following are struggling a bit. Bearish market, ha! Although I'm trying my best to spread the word, and am always very open to all sort of feedback that can help improve the campaign!