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Stories Playing Cards

Created by David Goldklang

An epic deck of Playing Cards — Vanda Artists Series designed by Srdjan Vidakovic.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Last call to enter the Gold Deck lottery!
about 1 year ago – Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 03:30:03 PM

Enter the Gold Deck lottery by clicking here.

Gold deck with gold foil backs, gold gilding, and a unique gold tuckbox. Limited edition run of 100 decks.

The deadline to enter the lottery will be tomorrow (Tuesday, March 21st) at midnight PST. After that, winners will be randomly selected from all entries.

The gold deck is printed by Legends with gold foil on the card backs, gold gilding on edges, and a unique gold tuckbox. Limited edition run of 100 decks. Lottery winners can add the gold deck to their backerkit orders for $50 USA / $55 Int'l. Estimated retail price is $80 but these won't be available for sale after this campaign unless any decks are unclaimed through backerkit.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks, David

Gold deck lottery entry now open! + other updates
about 1 year ago – Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 04:50:17 PM

Okay, we're getting close now...

Gold deck lottery: enter now!

Gold Deck

As I mentioned in a previous update, I'm offering an additional bonus item that was not included in the Kickstarter campaign: Stories Gold Deck. This deck will be available to selected backers in Backerkit for $50 USA / $55 Int'l.

Click here to enter the gold deck lottery

The gold deck is a gold gilded version of the black deck (printed by Legends with gold foil on the back of each card) packaged in a unique gold tuckbox with gold foil. We are only producing 100 gold decks so these are extremely limited.

100 lucky backers will be selected at random from the lottery entries. Winners will be notified by email and a gold deck will be added to your order in BackerKit prior fulfillment.

Outer boxes done & shipped

The 4-deck set boxes are completed in production and have been shipped to Gamblers Warehouse, where they will soon be assembled.

Purple Gilding complete

The purple decks have been gilded. I'll try to post a photo soon once I can get one in my hands. This was the final item to be finished on the production list.

Next steps...

Production of all items is now officially completed. GW is going to be assembling all remaining items (4-deck box sets mostly). In the meantime I will soon be unlocking all BackerKit orders so you'll be able to make any adjustments to your order such as adding any new items or updating your shipping address.

Thank you once again for your ongoing patience! -David

Black + gold decks are in! + outer box update
about 1 year ago – Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 11:08:43 AM

Hey everyone,

We're moving along, albeit a bit slowly...

Black decks looks awesome

Exciting news today is that I have the black decks that were printed by Legends. They have gold foiling on the card backs and they look amazing. Note: foiling alignment varies a bit from card to card so you will notice that some cards aren't perfectly aligned, but most of them should be pretty close.

Black decks - gold foil on back
Black decks - metallic ink on queen of spades

Gold gilded decks update

The gold gilded version of these decks are here as well (see attached images) - this is the deck that will be packed in the gold tuckbox and limited to 100 total decks. I'll post more info on the lottery for these decks once it's finalized (should be soon).

Outer boxes: high quality but delayed

Production on the outer boxes was finally completed but upon an internal quality inspection by the company's own CEO, they were determined to not meet quality standards and he has insisted they reprint the entire run. The good news here is that the final quality will be held to very high standards by the box production company. The bad news is that this means further delay before these are finally received by Gamblers Warehouse to be assembled into sets. I don't yet have an updated ETA on the final box delivery date.

I've attached a photo from the box production facility so you can see what that "not good enough quality" versions look like.

Outer boxes - rejected by quality check

More news to come soon and thanks for your continued patience!

-David


Quick design update - sticker seals
over 1 year ago – Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 05:23:33 PM

Hey all,  

The tuckboxes are currently being assembled for Volumes 1-3. As we’re applying the sticker seals we noticed they weren’t staying adhered to the tucks over the edge where flap tucks in. Good news is we found another placement option that actually works even better…  

Stickers will now be applied to the long edge of the tuckboxes. They fit perfectly here and won’t fall off now. Bonus is you’ll be able to open and appreciate the cards without having to rip or remove the sticker seal. Another bonus is that once the 4-deck sets are assembled in the outer box, you can easily see the matching serial numbers without removing the decks.  More to come soon…  

Thanks, 

David

The update you've been waiting for (GOOD NEWS)...
over 1 year ago – Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 07:56:04 AM

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