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I'm Tony. Yesterday I received a deck set—Elephant's Alpha & Omega product. I was initially thrilled to receive this deck I'd been anticipating for so long, but upon inspection, it turned out to be quite different from what I expected. First, the plastic wrapping on this deck looked odd—you could clearly see two decks had extremely tight wrapping, while the rest were very loose. Then I compared the foil colors on those two decks, which were noticeably duller than the others. Then I discovered the secret on the box bottom: Manufactured in China by WJPCC. I was stunned. The official website never mentioned they had reprinted this set, and the first edition was printed by USPCC. How could it be WJPCC after delivery? I can't help but suspect Elephant sold out some decks, then secretly had WJPCC reprint replacements and sneak them into shipments. What's most infuriating is that one of the WJPCC-printed decks didn't even have the exclusive foil seal sticker. This feels like outright fraud. Furthermore, upon closely inspecting the five USPCC-printed decks, I discovered that the seal stickers on two of them had already cracked. This severely impacts my collecting experience. I am sharing this experience with fellow collectors to urge caution when purchasing this product. The market likely already has a mix of WJPCC and USPCC decks circulating.

Where did you purchase them from? Could they be knock offs?

They went out of business a few years back as I recall. Their web site now redirects to a different company (which also sells playing cards). It is very possible they sold the designs (but not sure why they would be reprinted with a web site that isn't valid any more).

Edited to add;

Looking at the KS campaign looks like the didn't finished fulfilling Alpha & Omega, no update post them saying they got the gillded decks and many complaints about not receiving decks or responses. Last login was 2025 (although the last campaign and the comments on it are from 2023). They do seem to have an active Amazon store front though, maybe try to contact them there?

Here are my Alpha & Omega Playing Cards - I happened to have a time to get the out from storage:
These are the Bible series:
I was one of the original backers of the campaign on Kickstarter, and I only get the Standard edition of the decks. Got my rewards in 2022. All decks are printed in USPCC.
These are the Church series:
I got these from their own webstore in 2023 - that time, they undergo the name “Talking Point”, and they released another Christianity themed deck “Pilgrim’s Progress”. It was the start of the series, and eventually funded on Kickstarter. I didn’t backed it, because it is heavily implied to non-Catholic (aka, this is when Christianity were split up to different forms) - but I’ve decided to get them to complete the series.
At first, I THOUGHT these are all printed by USPCC, at stated on the campaign and P52 listing. When I saw your post that there’s this deck printed by WJPC, and I’ll be damned… my “Early Church” deck is printed by WJPC. Compared it to the other two decks within the group - no wonder the seals looked different. I am 3 years late of filing a complaint - because my OCD gotta flip! But it’s okay, as long the arts are still the same and it is its respective edition.