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Upping the ante

I had no idea we’d get here so quickly, but here we are. It’s been just under a year since we first launched the Tacoma Playing Cards project, and I’m happy to report that we’ve nearly sold out our initial print run of 5,000 decks! And we’ve had so many requests from Bridge players (and other folks who love multi-deck games) that we’re now working on a second deck—this time in red. (No worries if you haven’t snagged your Blue Deck yet; we’re printing a second run of those, as well.)

The overall design will be largely the same, with a few little exceptions (can you spot the difference in the box above?), and I’ll be contributing illustrations for another suite of face cards. But other than that, we’re reshuffling the deck completely—we’ve got 13 new artists on board, and a whole new batch of Tacoma icons to highlight.

Sales from the Blue Deck are funding the new Red Deck, so we won’t be doing a Kickstarter project this time. Instead, we’re taking pre-orders (at a discount!), and the Red Deck will be available in mid-October of this year. And you can already snag archival giclée prints of the Blue Deck artwork—as well as the one-of-a-kind originals.

Look for more sneak peeks later, as I finish my illustrations for the decks. In the meantime…go fish!