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Dave Ufford designed his own deck of transformation playing cards (EclecDeck) and is raising funds to publish a limited edition of 500 decks of his drawings of transformation planning cards. The EclecDeck – a showcase for 54 works of art (including the jokers).
A transformation playing card (sometimes referred to as a transformation deck when assembled into a complete set) is a type of playing card where an artist incorporates the pips of the non-face cards into an artistic design. In a classical transformation playing card, the pips retain their standard position and coloration on the card. In some variations, the pips may be different in size, location or color. There is some debate as to whether these cards, often referred to as semi-transformed, should be considered true transformation playing cards…more
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Tags: art, cartes à jouer, design, игральные карты, EclecDeck, Kickstarter, naipes, playing card collecting, playing cards, Semi-Transformation Playing Cards, Spielkarte
These playing cards is a reprint of a bullfighting comic deck which originally was produced in Mexico (dated around 1960). A Spanish playing card collector Iñaki Aguirrezabal who is a big admirer of bullfighting themed decks organized this reprint – 200 hand numbered copies were printed (the manufacturer is unknown).
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