Playing Cards, Shakespeare Pamphleteer edition

I like cards. They tell me things I don't want to know, in the nicest of ways.

Each deck comprises four traditional suits of thirteen cards, together with four assignable Rare Faces.

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

🏵️ 4 Extra Cards: The Four Rare Faces 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.

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