Hello everyone,
My name is Jessie and I'm the designer behind Nomad's Journey, a new card that I illustrated myself inspired by Mongolian culture. After working on it for 150+ hours, I wanted to share it with the world. There's 15 unique designs (13 for each rank + 2 jokers) and each of the 54 cards features an illustration. I hope many of you will appreciate this cultural perspective weaved into the world of playing cards.
You can see all the card illustrations on https://www.craftedcurious.com/
Nomad's Journey: Mongolian Inspired Poker Deck by Crafted Curious
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Re: Nomad's Journey: Mongolian Inspired Poker Deck by Crafted Curious
Good Luck Jessie but I think you would have been better using your 15 designs to have 12 different courts, a fancy AoS and Jokers. Repeating the same design for Court cards is generally unpopular
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Re: Nomad's Journey: Mongolian Inspired Poker Deck by Crafted Curious
Nice motives but the design does not work for me.
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Re: Nomad's Journey: Mongolian Inspired Poker Deck by Crafted Curious
So now we know where Lucas got the inspiration for one of Queen Amidala's hairdo!
(From Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Edited for the few folk who never watched the show or aware that SW Ep 1 existed
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(From Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Edited for the few folk who never watched the show or aware that SW Ep 1 existed
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Re: Nomad's Journey: Mongolian Inspired Poker Deck by Crafted Curious
Thanks Eric and thanks google lens - for despite being a Big Bang Theory fan, I was thinking Lucas who?
(What do you mean you don't know who Queen Amidala is
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(What do you mean you don't know who Queen Amidala is
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Re: Nomad's Journey: Mongolian Inspired Poker Deck by Crafted Curious
Really impressive work, Jessie. You can clearly see the amount of love and effort put into each card. The cultural inspiration is refreshing — it’s not often we see decks that dive this deep into Mongolian themes. Looking forward to seeing how the community responds to it!
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Re: Nomad's Journey: Mongolian Inspired Poker Deck by Crafted Curious
I had to delete a few posts that simply did not belong here. Discussion by PM is fine, thunderdome as well, but not here.
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