The World Web Playing Card Museum

April 12, 2006 9:22 PM

Take a card, any card, from the Anti-religious pack, or the insufferably cute Our lovers (kittens!) deck, or the utilitarian Cards that talk (Japanese, Korean and Chinese phrases) and many, many more.
posted by tellurian (12 comments total)

There's some damn cool decks in there. Thanks for this.

Now I just need a high-quality color printer and some nice cardstock paper to duplicate all my favorites!
posted by papakwanz at 9:47 PM on April 12, 2006

I think I could appreciate the anti-religious deck better if I could understand Russian.
posted by Mitrovarr at 11:53 PM on April 12, 2006

No Russian needed here Mitrovarr. Religion equated with drunkeness, avarice, licentiousness, capitalism, debauchery, corruption, cruelty and Nazism. Godwin.
posted by tellurian at 12:51 AM on April 13, 2006

I can understand the pictures, of course, I'd just like to know what the text is. Propaganda is always more interesting to me as text.

It is worth noting that religion has in fact been associated with every one of those charactaristics at some point in history or other. Hell, you could probably find a specific pope for each one.
posted by Mitrovarr at 1:06 AM on April 13, 2006

Neat stuff.
posted by Gator at 3:16 AM on April 13, 2006

Yay!
posted by beerbajay at 3:51 AM on April 13, 2006

Whatever - learn Russian. This was just one example I pulled out of the deck. What about the rest? We have hand drawn porno from prison camps (limited edition), Japanese castles (which tie in beautifuly with this post), etc. If my pullout is beyond you, move on and lets discuss the rest. For example
posted by tellurian at 6:46 AM on April 13, 2006

Okay, I couldn't be bothered.
posted by tellurian at 7:02 AM on April 13, 2006

I love playing cards, I'd start collecting them if I had any more room left from collecting other things. My favourite deck (which I did actually buy) is the transformation deck The Key to the Kingdom, more pictures of the cards here. Thanks for the link
posted by kumonoi at 2:23 PM on April 13, 2006

Children's cards - spooky house, comical king, spooky robot queen, peg leg jack, Bring it on robot, 6 of diamonds.
Gipsy tell fortunes cards - You'll get a kick out of this Mitrovarr. How about this (the whole deck is something else). No?

posted by tellurian at 8:36 AM on April 16, 2006

How can anyone go past the 'Crystal' set?
posted by tellurian at 9:01 AM on April 16, 2006

The Taiwanese 'Three-national War" is ace.
posted by tellurian at 9:24 AM on April 16, 2006