UnitedCardists.com - The forum for Cardistry, Magic, Custom Decks and All Things Playing Cards.

Another new one and I don't know what to say, lots of copying and pasting and a 1 way back. Big pass. Highly doubt it will reach the $10,000 goal.

It's "Cosa Nostra".

Costra means crust in Spanish though. Unless it's a Sicilian pizza mafia.

Wow, it's been a while since I've seen one this awful...

Let's examine just a few lines from this campaign...

I am an artist and I love to research the Mafia and play cards in my free time.

translation: I've played poker once or twice, I think I am an artist, and i've watched some mafia movies a few times and I can actually remember a few of the important characters, but i couldn't be bothered to do actual work like googling "costra nostra", and finding out that i've gotten it all wrong before plastering it all over my project.

I have done art work/projects for many different companies in the past and I decided to make a deck of playing cards that are true to the roots of NYC and the underbelly of the wise guys.

translation: I made some evites for some friends and they politely complimented me, so a deck of playing cards was obviously no big deal to pull off. Besides, nothing says "New York" like cards with a cartoon of Al Capone on the back!

This deck is all original designed art work that is a mix of new school with a twist of the golden age. Everything down to the box is original digital art designed by me.

translation: "I pirated a copy of photoshop and ran some photos of celebrities through some quick filters. I am an artistic genius."

AAAHAHAH! The translations are magnificent (and accurate!).

But really, I think the most funny part is the "Costra Nostra" thing!

I ran across this today and I have to agree with y'all, this is not a good deck. I do not see any real artistic talent with this deck. I love the last reward tier "A 15 minuted telephone call with a real member of the mob." lol

Yeah I think the correct spelling is "Cosa Nostra". Maybe he is trying to be creative...wait, why is Marilyn Monroe the queen?

ahahah man, it´s Cosa Nostra in italian
Costra Nostra does not mean anything, I tell you 100000% sure, I´m Italian

cheers

Good deck or bad, can someone PLEASE change the title of this thread? The Italian and OCD in me is going crazy

vasta41 wrote:Good deck or bad, can someone PLEASE change the title of this thread? The Italian and OCD in me is going crazy

Change it so it's correct, or what he said? I don't think it's going to matter much...

You can tell how much he knows about cards, too: $120 tier = "A full dealers case" (of ten decks of course). I think I'll go buy one of those 15 minute talks with the mob, now that they are down to a very reasonable $200. That's less than $13.50 per minute, on sale from the previous $30+ per minute!

Mike Ratledge wrote:

vasta41 wrote:Good deck or bad, can someone PLEASE change the title of this thread? The Italian and OCD in me is going crazy

Change it so it's correct, or what he said? I don't think it's going to matter much...

You can tell how much he knows about cards, too: $120 tier = "A full dealers case" (of ten decks of course). I think I'll go buy one of those 15 minute talks with the mob, now that they are down to a very reasonable $200. That's less than $13.50 per minute, on sale from the previous $30+ per minute!

Haha Mike, you can call me instead, I'll give you a discount and charge you $10 per minute!

So we like "Cosa Nostra" on all the cards. Nope, that is pretty boring and lazy. You can do better...