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Elliptica is the next in our series of premium poker decks. Designed by Randy Butterfield and inspired by our love of the classic Bee diamondback design and beautiful simple borderless decks - the Elliptical design runs through the deck and makes for an elegant back and tuck box.

Long term we're aiming for lower price points, bigger runs and and (possibly) more colours with a first edition that will be differentiated simply by a numbered seal. This will be the best value LUXX® deck so far.

Thank you, you beat me to it by a few minutes

Here's a look at the faces and jokers for Elliptica, along with two other colour versions we're considering.

Great cards once again by Randy and JP. My wallet is cursing.

You can tell Randy's involved, which the Grinder looking courts. I like the red out of all, the purple looks ok.

For me, the only similarity is that the inside of the border on the courts is block coloured. That's just my opinion though.

I think everyone will have a favourite colour and blue is mine personally, so we'll see how opinion pans out. Thanks for the feedback.

That green option is sure to attract Sprouts and Fingerz... It strikes me as somewhat herbal

These cards look amazing and I love the blue! Though I like the purple and green, I hate to say it, but the tucks kinda remind me of the Bicycle Peacock decks

I love the Blue and Red... but I am sure my wife gonna ask for the purple..

I like them all! I want them all!

I'm glad to see you guys are liking them!!

Here's a link to a good look at the Back Card design:

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Thanks, Randy

These are some great colors. I really like the green and the blue. If the only things that will be different will be the backs, I see me only buying one color.

Thanks everyone for the support, very much appreciated. It's a pretty simple design, but I think it's going to fit right in to the LUXX range. We are hoping to get the ball rolling with Legends in the next few weeks, and will keep everyone posted when we have more info - I can say for definite though that we will do matching number sets for the first edition like we did for the original first editions last year. If we do four colours, then we will do matching sets of four.

Well if you are thinking about all 4 colors, then I would prefer them all at the same time, not 2 now and 2 later. Either way it looks great and I can't wait to get them. Hoping to get the last Luxx this week!

jerichoholic wrote:Well if you are thinking about all 4 colors, then I would prefer them all at the same time, not 2 now and 2 later. Either way it looks great and I can't wait to get them. Hoping to get the last Luxx this week!

So would we, but a small business like ours has to make considered, well thought through choices and decisions. 4000 decks instead of 2000 is a higher risk, but our preference would be all 4 colours in one go- otherwise we wouldn't have them all. We will see how opinion pans out but if I feel them demand is there it will definitely happen.

Thanks for the feedback.

Paul Middleton wrote:

jerichoholic wrote:Well if you are thinking about all 4 colors, then I would prefer them all at the same time, not 2 now and 2 later. Either way it looks great and I can't wait to get them. Hoping to get the last Luxx this week!

So would we, but a small business like ours has to make considered, well thought through choices and decisions. 4000 decks instead of 2000 is a higher risk, but our preference would be all 4 colours in one go- otherwise we wouldn't have them all. We will see how opinion pans out but if I feel them demand is there it will definitely happen.

Thanks for the feedback.

All colors at the same time would be best. Hate to pay shipping twice too.

If the previous decks are any indication these should sell well.

Like these. A lot.

But I hope that there is still time to tweak the tuck box design a bit. It still looks very good, but I think it could use some more details.

But I love those cards and will get at least the Red deck when these come out.

Räpylätassu wrote:Like these. A lot.

But I hope that there is still time to tweak the tuck box design a bit. It still looks very good, but I think it could use some more details.

But I love those cards and will get at least the Red deck when these come out.

I appreciate the feedback as always, thank you!

Unfortunately they've gone to print, but to be honest one of the aims of the deck (and tuck) was to be simple and straight forward without being minimal - inspiration was drawn from LTD decks and Bee diamondbacks.

I don't think you will be disappointed when they arrive (hopefully).

Available for preorder yet?

Paul Middleton wrote:

Räpylätassu wrote:Like these. A lot.

But I hope that there is still time to tweak the tuck box design a bit. It still looks very good, but I think it could use some more details.

But I love those cards and will get at least the Red deck when these come out.

I appreciate the feedback as always, thank you!

Unfortunately they've gone to print, but to be honest one of the aims of the deck (and tuck) was to be simple and straight forward without being minimal - inspiration was drawn from LTD decks and Bee diamondbacks.

I don't think you will be disappointed when they arrive (hopefully).

Did you decide to print all four colors?

They will be available for pre-order once we have received proofs and ey are on the way to us, likely to be February sometime I'd imagine.

Yes we are doing all four in the first edition, more details about what will be available in pre-order stage will be released soon.

We are a few days away from receiving physical proofs and should have so,e news on the pre order date soon. Most likely the end of February.

Will post some shots when we have them!

First time seeing these. Love the full bleed back. That might be the perfect size. In many cases in history, I've seen a larger repeating image on the BackOfCard. You need to break some rules and make it work. These are to plain jane...

Tax stamps are obsolete. I think we can tell if a deck as bEnt shuffled.

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Sorry for spamming folks, but thought the tuck proofs needed a few shots to give a really good idea of how they look.

Provisionally looking at the end of March for pre-orers to begin, more news soon...

The pictures look AMAZING but I bet they'll even look better still in person!