Guitar Gods Playing Cards (KS)

[badpete69]

[Eoghann]

You'd think they'd be able to scrounge up 4 female guitarists for the Queens.

[Firthetic]

Or at least Brian May from Queen.

[dazzleguts]

You'd think they'd be able to scrounge up 4 female guitarists for the Queens.

They wouldn't even have to scrounge really - there's so many to choose from:

Joni Mitchell

Nancy Wilson

Kaki King
(Rolling Stone made her their first-ever female “Guitar God”)

Jennifer Batten

Sister Rosetta Tharpe
(ancient history but she really ripped)

Lita Ford

Joan Jett

Donita Sparks

Orianthi

Carrie Brownstein
....etc

Maybe the problem is these players don't have the glossy cover photos they're using for the cards.

[th4mo]

Uggg. These cards make me want to shred... And I don't mean play guitar...

[badpete69]

You'd think they'd be able to scrounge up 4 female guitarists for the Queens.

Maybe the problem is these players don't have the glossy cover photos they're using for the cards.

That is probably the reason. When you google about female on guitar world covers not much comes up

[Eoghann]

And this one:



I'm sure there's more in their old issues and what not. And maybe if they didn't have such a hard on for Van Halen, there'd be room for other people.

Seriously, I went through their gallery and a good chunk has VH in them. I counted like 30. Yeesh.

[Encarded]

As more and more of these types of projects appear I continue to feel that I'm not even part of the "card market" anymore. There are now 1,024 projects on Kickstarter if you search for "playing cards," which is just flat out crazy. In early 2012 when I did Tendril there had been 6 proper (i.e. USPCC) playing card projects. I think there are about 30 active ones this month alone.

Projects like this are just so unrelated to anything that makes playing cards great. I guess everyone has the right to try to make some money, but why playing cards have become the dumping ground for seemingly every idea under the sun is beyond me.

[Lotrek]

As more and more of these types of projects appear I continue to feel that I'm not even part of the "card market" anymore. There are now 1,024 projects on Kickstarter if you search for "playing cards," which is just flat out crazy. In early 2012 when I did Tendril there had been 6 proper (i.e. USPCC) playing card projects. I think there are about 30 active ones this month alone.

Projects like this are just so unrelated to anything that makes playing cards great. I guess everyone has the right to try to make some money, but why playing cards have become the dumping ground for seemingly every idea under the sun is beyond me.

There is no way I could agree more. True, many themes can become a great deck but we'll soon be seeing themes like: The Onion Deck, Toilet paper deck, Meatballs deck, Smashed Frog deck and so on. Jesus!

[Cbkimble]

As more and more of these types of projects appear I continue to feel that I'm not even part of the "card market" anymore. There are now 1,024 projects on Kickstarter if you search for "playing cards," which is just flat out crazy. In early 2012 when I did Tendril there had been 6 proper (i.e. USPCC) playing card projects. I think there are about 30 active ones this month alone.

Projects like this are just so unrelated to anything that makes playing cards great. I guess everyone has the right to try to make some money, but why playing cards have become the dumping ground for seemingly every idea under the sun is beyond me.

There is no way I could agree more. True, many themes can become a great deck but we'll soon be seeing themes like: The Onion Deck, Toilet paper deck, Meatballs deck, Smashed Frog deck and so on. Jesus!

smashed frog deck. I like it. I'll start taking pics of run over frogs until I have sufficient number for a deck. might even find some that look like they have crowns on. LMAO.

[Encarded]

There is no way I could agree more. True, many themes can become a great deck but we'll soon be seeing themes like: The Onion Deck, Toilet paper deck, Meatballs deck, Smashed Frog deck and so on. Jesus!

Yes, in thinking about this more I think there are now three very distinct categories of producers in the card world:

1. "big producers" (T11, Ellusionist, D&D, Blue Crown) that make quite nice decks aimed mainly at their existing huge fan bases
2. "independent designers" of which there are about 12 or so, that truly love playing cards, their history, and put a lot of effort into doing new things
3. 10,000 other people who think that they can put anything on playing cards and make money

Somehow we need to transition the talented few of those 10,000 people into category #2 so we have less noise and more quality.

[StanKindLee]

Somehow we need to transition the talented few of those 10,000 people into category #2 so we have less noise and more quality.

Workin' on it. My question is - when category #3 grows to 20K or 30K, what mechanism will be in place to make sure that category #2 is even noticed by the masses which appear to be mostly social media driven? Maybe UC needs an app which pushes out info to eyeballs without folks having to actively search/look for top quality playing card decks/projects.

[sprouts1115]

The indices are wrong and the back of card has a fatal flaw. It's not "2-way". It will probably fail. Big mistakes; However, this is the best example of "Hey, lets put pips on the back of card. Yea, that sounds great" I do like the inverted suits silver on black and it does shows a pattern.

[Lotrek]

smashed frog deck. I like it. I'll start taking pics of run over frogs until I have sufficient number for a deck. might even find some that look like they have crowns on. LMAO.

Can't wait to see the jokers!

[BenMorrisRains]

I am a guitar player in a touring band. I appreciate these, but as the card collector, these are pretty much as lame as you could think. Has an 80's vibe to it. And I agree, there are way too many custom decks now. I thought I wanted to design my own, which I still do, but I have made more of a focus to let it happen naturally and add elements over time. WWWAAAAYYY too much drivel.