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This is the newest deck from Steve Minty, launching tomorrow May 6 at 2pm pst on Kickstarter. Olympia: Underworld, is the stretch goal. Looks great, can't wait for this one.

Ooh, love the color on the Underworld deck! Will definitely be there

One thing that caught my attention though, why would the back of the box and actual back design have different color helmets? Seems like an unnecessary discrepancy.

EDIT: For the record, I prefer the yellow/gold helmets over the white ones.

yeah these look amazing.. Have to agree with Tom.. Could be just a mistake on the tuck vs the backs

I like them both, like I said up front. Steve will make it work!

This is what he posted in the KS update

Based on your opinions, I decided to make the tuck backside feature the forward facing helmet design a gold color. Foil gold would be used if we reach the stretch goal.

Great looking cards - sexy stretch goal.

jerichoholic wrote:This is what he posted in the KS update

Based on your opinions, I decided to make the tuck backside feature the forward facing helmet design a gold color. Foil gold would be used if we reach the stretch goal.

Ugh, I really don't like it when they make the back design on the box look better than it ever could on the actual cards. It's overshadowing.

MagikFingerz wrote:

jerichoholic wrote:This is what he posted in the KS update

Based on your opinions, I decided to make the tuck backside feature the forward facing helmet design a gold color. Foil gold would be used if we reach the stretch goal.

Ugh, I really don't like it when they make the back design on the box look better than it ever could on the actual cards. It's overshadowing.

Same here but at least these *could* be foiled. I'm psyched that a seemingly well done Greek gods themed deck is being created! I love everything about these decks and I hope every streach goal is reached.

This was also in the update about the card backs.

"The Olympia card backs will feature a white version of the helmet to allow it to pop more! It'll look great when fanning the cards as well as dealing and doing magic tricks".

Bikefanatic wrote:This was also in the update about the card backs.

"The Olympia card backs will feature a white version of the helmet to allow it to pop more! It'll look great when fanning the cards as well as dealing and doing magic tricks".

Ok, that's just ridiculous. The helmets are center elements, to be able to see them when fanning you'd have to only use like 10 cards

I misread the earlier post. I thought it would be gold helmets on both with gold foil on the tuck and metallic ink on the cards. Why NOT this?

Now live.. banner in OP

Thanks guys! I look forward to sharing more details and designs as the campaign continues!

Hey Steve can you elaborate what kind of deck that $1000 pledge gets you?

EDIT: Ok saw your answer in the comments section. It's the Golden Fleece deck... Thanks

That was exciting. Ten minutes late and I missed out on the 2 deck tier. That's okay. I got in on the one deck EB. I really like the Underworld deck and was happy to see that it was going to available as a stretch add on. I'm usually not much for t-shirts, coins, and dice but I really like the look of these so I upped my pledge accordingly. I used to love Greek myths as a kid also and I think Steve really captured the feel with these. Now I'm just going to sit back and watch the KS counter click over. Way to go, Steve.

Does anyone else see exactly how much of the empire decks are in these. Specifically bloodlines?

Not trying to be difficult and I know the them is technically similar, but even non theme related elements seem almost exactly the same in some places....

The Aces

Odd perspective, DE. What time of day is it in Australia? Just kidding...

Must be just me then....

The blue aces, especially the heart, the pips... the stripe on the tuck middle, the back and the warrior.....

As I said. Must be just me but when I saw it I thought it was a LeeMac deck....

I'm not really seeing a resemblance between the two either

Just me then I guess... Never mind.

HudsonDesign wrote:Just me then I guess... Never mind.

Well, I see that both have a small squarish place centered on left & right sides, but I just look at the aces and see nothing similar at all. The Warrior clip bears a slight resemblance to the helmet on the back, but how can two people use a helmet and then not look like helmets? (and we're comparing a card clip to the back design) Lee is a good bud, if I saw something I would agree, but I just don't.

These are nice...but jeez, huge funding period. Will have to star and check back later.

Hello Folks! 9 days left in the campaign and I wanted to announce that the Underworld deck has been unlocked!

for the 500 pledge, does this come with the original and underworld or would these be add ons??
Also can you confirm how many golden fleece decks there will be.

Per his most recent KS update:

A lot of you have been asking about splitting your pledges with the Underworld deck so I am here to clarify. Due to the nature of unlocking the Underworld Deck early, you can only add it on.

What the hell kind of BS is this? I for one am pissed- no other KS (that I recall) has ever done this.

I am also stuck with two Olympia decks and have to up my pledge to get the Underworld. Not happy, for sure.
But, even if far from ideal, think it like this: if it wasn't for this solution, the Underworld deck wouldn't be unlocked and you would still have only Olympia deck. It's true that now we are being pushed to complete the set, but I am not sure if this campaign is truly aimed at collectors...

You'd think $35,000 could cover a second print run though. I mean if edgybros can do three decks with $32K...

Even Omnia is at $30K+ with three decks and most of the bells and whistles. noimsayin'?

Not sure how I feel about this now. Why is this seemingly more expensive than the rest..

jsantafe wrote: if it wasn't for this solution, the Underworld deck wouldn't be unlocked and you would still have only Olympia deck.

I respectfully disagree. If it weren't for people like us pledging for more than one deck when the project starts, second addon stretch goal decks wouldn't be funded. I'm not going to wait around and see if the deck is going to be unlocked. I'm actually going to let my pledge reflect it and put my money where my mouth is. I never thought doing that would put me in a tight spot.

I will say this- I messaged Steve and I think we will come to a mutual agreement. I just hope this is an anomaly and not a new trend with future Kickstarters.