Beltane & Lughnasadh by Jocu x Evgenia Zhade

[Jocu]

Hi guys!

We've been a little snowed under recently what with our subscription decks being fulfilled and finishing up production on The Heritage Series and delivery on ONDA but we have a NEW new project to share with you launching tomorrow.

If you missed our emails and IG posts so far, I'm excited to announce our first collaboration with an outside artist - the incredible talented Evgenia Zhade has worked with us to create this very special project that's been in planning for over two years.

It's actually one of the first ideas we came up with for decks, but required a certain style of artwork and we definitely found that as soon as we saw Evgenia's work. And being an eventual eight deck series, we weren't really ready to take it on... until now!

So we present to you the first of the Wheel of the Year playing cards series exploring the seasonal festivals of the ancient peoples of northern Europe - Beltane & Lughnasadh. We'll explore heroes, gods and goddesses from the remnants of this complex mythology whilst delving into the significance of these festivals based on the turning points of the seasons and how they were interpreted in the pre-medieval period.

Launching Saturday 29th May 9:00am Pacific, 12:00am Eastern and 6pm EU time.

Beltaine & Lughnasadh by Evgenia Zhade and Jocu Playing Cards

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[Harvonsgard]

I like the idea with the artist collaboration a lot. Will the whole series be with Evgenia? Do you have other artists lined up?

[HFMJ]

Now live:

[MagikFingerz]

Seems odd that the Mythology bundle doesn't have an EB. I'm in anyway, and saving €1 by getting the EB pair and adding on the booklets

[Jocu]

Seems odd that the Mythology bundle doesn't have an EB. I'm in anyway, and saving €1 by getting the EB pair and adding on the booklets

Thank you! You’re right, perhaps it should’ve done...

In response to Harvonsgard above these will all be done by Evgenia we really wanted that kind of old magic/mythology book style she has and it’ll make a nice series I think. And I’m excited about potential future collaborations with other artists too!

We didn’t go too much into detail yet on the campaign, but effectively all graphical elements such as pips and fonts, back design and tuck were designed by Alessandra with Evgenia, whilst Evgenia is the principal artist on all the courts and aces.

[Harvonsgard]

Nice to see the campaign is going well without being pulled by a myriad of versions and features.

[Jocu]

Nice to see the campaign is going well without being pulled by a myriad of versions and features.

Thank you we really wanted to keep this about nice decks with beautiful tucks and a great story. It's eight decks in the end so I think people will appreciate that the individual campaigns will be relatively straightforward

[hsbc]