Playing Cards, Shakespeare Pamphleteer edition

Math and trickery, money and mockery, living in debt. Stories are told in cards. Sometimes the cards can speak.

Four suits of thirteen cards and four wild cards.

Designed by Lost Malaise. Manufactured by the United States Playing Card Company's Bicycle® division, with two enhancements to their standard deck:

• air-cushioned finish
• premium in-house card stock

♠️ House of Spades: Prince Demetrius is a lay priest for the Constantinopolitan Church in Exile. Queen Olga fashions an Eastern court of Christendom from the banks of the Bosporus. Jack's arts are fumed in her sunlit beams of incense.

♦️ House of Diamonds: Queen Courtney’s fingertips pulse with bureaucracy. King Excelsior owes his quiescent court to her feared Industrial Prospecting and Mining Bureau. Surveying dark hot warrens for kimberlite ore, Jack follows Erda's voice into the twisted Earth.

♣️ House of Clubs: Queen Freyja is displeased. The King's smoking & gambling will force upon her kingdom a period of learned austerity. As the King's roving Free Will, Jack stops in with tales of foreign marts.

♥️ House of Hearts: A house of broken hearts. The Queen loves her Son, Jack. The King has no agency.

🏵️ Four wild cards may be assigned in any manner with respect to wildness, rank, and suit.

• The Foole
• The Fowle
• The Players
• The Doors

🛟 California Dial typography, mixing Roman and Arabic numerals, remains a popular design amongst maritimers.