Description
– Launched 2022
– Check out the YouTube unboxing by Geoff Babbits
– and the review by Daniel Huckins of the previous Damn Good Cards
– and the featurette by Dan & Dave previously for HMNIM to be reminded of their design inspo & ethos
– Available editions:
1. Damn Good Cards No. 1 – Coffee Bean (Black)
2. Damn Good Cards No. 2 – Kalimba (Blue)
3. Damn Good Cards No. 3 – Red Lotus (Red)
4. Damn Good Cards No. 4 – Beatnik (Green)
5. Damn Good Cards No. 5 – Sawtooth (Orange)
6. Damn Good Cards No. 6 – Orwell (Gold / Yellow)
7. Damn Good Cards No. 7 – Play (Retro Denim Blue)
Inspired by classic mid-century graphic design, our series of Damn Good Cards feature a colorful collection of bold patterns to enrich a playful quality when in use.
Damn Good Cards, No. 7
The latest DGC back design in Dan and Dave’s ongoing series features a retro one-way motif inspired by mid-century print advertising with the word “Play” encased in an elongated diamond pattern of contrasting blue and gold ink. Housed inside a linen-finish tuck box.
Whether you’re a practicing cardist or a professional magician, Damn Good Cards feature tasteful designs printed on Thin Crushed® stock for superior handling.
Finally, an affordable deck for those serious about cards. Whether you’re a practicing Cardist or professional Magician our line of Damn Good Cards features tasteful designs printed on our beloved Thin Crushed® Stock for a superior handling experience.
56 Regulation poker-size playing cards with Standardized Faces, White Borders, and No Seal. Printed in the USA on FSC Certified Paper.
If you’re like us, you live and breathe playing cards. As a cardist and sleight-of-hand artist, you have open decks throughout your house, forgotten decks in jacket pockets, lost cards under and between seats in the car, and countless decks left behind somewhere. You’re constantly buying new decks, some to collect but mostly to use. Because you use your playing cards and opening a new pack is as much a dopamine harmful other packs. You burn for perfect fans and faros, crisp riffles and springs, and clean white edges. We can go on, but the obsession is endless.
As for the cards, you want something stylish yet understated—a deck with integrity, proud to be playing cards, and not something else. Limited and collectible with the potential to increase in value, but also affordable. And premium in quality and design backed by well.
If you relate, then you’ll love our new line of Damn Good Cards. They hit all the right points: thin white borders, crushed stock, no seal, standardized faces, exceptionally designed and produced, limited and affordable.
And by affordable, we’ve taken special measures to pass savings directly to our customers—that’s you. Although we haven’t skimped on the quality of the cards themselves, we have packaged them in a standard box, which substantially lowers costs. We’re also limiting wholesale, which allows for a lower retail price. And we will offer a discount to our customers when they purchase 12 or more decks. On top of that, the special edition box set will offer the greatest savings of all.
White Borders
Playing cards didn’t always have white borders. We’re not exactly sure of the history, but at some point, it must have been a design feature to help distinguish or quickly count a run of cards. Today, nearly all playing cards have a border. For Card Magic, borders can help conceal various sleight-of-hand techniques, whereas, for Cardistry, it does the opposite and functions as a visual separator to embellish the movement of cards in a flourish.
Historically, many playing card designs are confined inside a white-bordered frame, thus cropping or limiting the design to a pre-defined aspect ratio – a rectangular box. For Damn Good Cards, we thought it would be fun to create designs that are neither cropped nor confined within this box. Instead, each design creates its own natural border. In doing so, a seamless design carries on from one card to the next, thus providing a sense of unity where the entire deck acts as a singular design cut up into 52 symmetrical blocks.
Thin Crushed
Thin Crushed Stock was not a feature of the U.S. Playing Card Co. that was offered until 2013 when we suggested that they replicate the thin quality of STUD playing cards which were printed on a thin paper stock no longer available. The idea was to “crush” traditional Bicycle paper by tightening the pressure of their embossing machine made of two giant rollers sandwiched around a sheet of card stock. The process was unique and not something the USPCC had explored before. Although risky, we signed a waiver stating that if the machine broke, we’d be liable. To everyone’s benefit, it worked. A Thin Crushed deck is approximately four to five cards thinner than a traditional Bicycle deck yet retains the same snappy quality.
For the next few years, all D&D and Art of Play decks featured this crushed stock before the market caught on and started requesting the same feature which is now offered by the USPCC as a premium option. After over two decades of using all types of playing cards, we can honestly say Thin Crushed makes for a better handling deck.
No Seal
Prior to 1964, Uncle Sam required a special tax on the sale of playing cards; therefore, a stamp was issued and used to seal a deck closed. The tradition continued with non-government-issued “seals” and has since become a design feature for custom playing cards. We ourselves have been known to embellish this feature with lavish designs featuring custom shapes and embossed foil accents, but for Damn Good Cards, the thought of keeping the box clean and simple felt right. A seal can be difficult to open and, once removed, can leave a sticky residue on the box or unintentionally fall off over time. Apart from esthetics, a seal provides no value and therefore is not necessary for these cards.
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