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The following two decks are presented here to illustrate how some designers make it very easy for themselves. The first deck shows a tilted square with advertising, placed over the center design on all the courts. Using the center as advertising space has been done before and can be found in many other decks. Here the courts refer to the international pattern, but only 3 designs have been used and these have been mirrored. We show the Spades and Hearts only, as the Clubs and Diamonds are identical. For some reason the designer has used the suicide King as basic design for all the Kings, so in this deck they all wield their sword.
| The deck was printed in China and published in the
Netherlands by RRS, a sewer cleaning company, in 2008.
The deck consists of 52 cards and 3 identical jokers. But for the joker collectors these could be interesting variations, with the RRS ads in all four corners. Because the deck was made for a Dutch company, Dutch indices were used on the courts. All the aces have a similar design, for the black suits with a blue band and for the red suits with a yellow band. |
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But there are even lazier designers. Here an example from Belgium. There's not much to tell about this deck. We suspect it to be made by Carta Mundi for a company called E3, but can't find any further info about this edition or company. The deck is a training deck for the 3 E's (excellence, efficiency and enterprise) and all the cards have slogans on them. Maybe the designer focused on 3 and efficiency, because he only made 3 designs for the courts and didn't even bother to mirror them or add some other attributes in the suits. We've seen some great designs among our "anomalies", but this one is as basic as it gets. Maybe efficient, but certainly not excellent.
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