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Teased on Facebook earlier today, this will be his 5th deck with title "Name of the Game". Obviously won't be up on Kickstarter for about a year since he just started the creation and Delicious will be the next one to be posted. Still, I'm pretty excited about this one, but he needs to STOP - I only have 5 spots on my main uncut hallway and this means he will have claimed them all. I am running out of places for the others.

Name of the Game is my 5th deck, and it's all about sports. Here's the first card.
Year 5, Week 1: The Ace of Spades

This is a little too soon for next years decks, we just started 2015! lol

GUYS! WTF? He takes a FULL YEAR to produce a single deck, plus the time to convert it and prep it for printing!!! Even mock complaints seem a little ridiculous!
It's not like he's on his way to becoming the next CPC...

That is wonderful in my eyes. He knows no mans land at the USPCC and is the Master of thin borders and semi-transformation decks...

Does anyone know what happened to this or to Emmanuel for that matter? I pondered this while voting for the best uncut sheet of 2017 and realized there has been no Emmanuel for years now..

Unfortunately i've no idea what he's doing.
He also did the papercuts for a 6th deck called "Fashion & Flair" and even startet a 7th in January 2017.
Somehow he stopped working/posting about that 7th deck and shows only pet portraits for almost a year.
The way he integrates the pips in his desings are incredible, i love his work and hope that he is going to print these decks one day.

Scroll down a bit and you can see all the artwork for the 5th & 6th deck:
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First Cards for the 7th deck and some info:
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First I ever see of this designer. Sad to hear he’s gone awol. What are the names of the first decks?


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TheGentlemanWake wrote:First I ever see of this designer. Sad to hear he’s gone awol. What are the names of the first decks?


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He’s actually pretty easily found, just not doing playing cards anymore it seems...or at least having them printed, which is a shame as he does do amazing work.

The decks that were printed are: Curator, Clipped Wings, Sawdust and Delicious

I've sent him a few emails over the years and contacted on Facebook, but no response. Clearly the custom dog portraits and just doing the art is more interesting and worthwhile to him, but if you have 3 decks worth of art there why not finish them? I have his first 4 uncuts hung and have no more room, I guess it's for the best, but terribly disappointing.

Here's all the papercut artwork that would have been starting point for the decks
Fashion & Flair
Joie de Vivre
Name of the Game

The ten of clubs in the fashion deck might be my favorite. Thanks for those links.


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Is there anywhere to get his existing decks?

TheGentlemanWake wrote:Is there anywhere to get his existing decks?

http://www.playingcards.net and ebay, but be prepared to pay a pretty penny for anything other than apparently sawdust. IF you can find them. Although, I do have duplicates of most of them and if you look on P52 entry for them you will see people do have them in their trade lists.

I've had very poor luck with having anyone respond to me on P52. I've sent out messages and gotten no responses. On top of that the site messages seem to be broken for me and when I hit send it erases my message and then doesnt show it in the list. Anyway, if someone has any of these decks up for sale please PM details. Thanks

TheGentlemanWake wrote:I've had very poor luck with having anyone respond to me on P52. I've sent out messages and gotten no responses. On top of that the site messages seem to be broken for me and when I hit send it erases my message and then doesnt show it in the list. Anyway, if someone has any of these decks up for sale please PM details. Thanks

I agree- the messaging system on that website needs a revamp. I try to remember to check them but it's not as obvious as the pop-up feature I enabled on this site.

I am generally not really into transformation or semi-transformation decks. So, when I first saw EJ's "Clipped Wings" deck for sale on HOPC (back in the day), it was an easy pass. Yet, people here at UC kept raving about his decks. So, later, when Sawdust or Delicious came out (I'm not sure of the order), I bought *one*. For most projects, I buy a few (as the saying goes, one to open and play with, one for the collection, and one... just because.) Well, I bought one, and... it blew me away.

Still, when the next one came out (the other one of the pair I mentioned above), I bought only one again. Not sure why I only bought one that time. I guess I figured that I'd never play with it, so since I would already have one (opened, granted), that was good enough for the collection. Yeah.

Sooo, anywho, now they are super rare and super in demand and I don't even have one spare to use as trade bait. And, it stands to reason that they are in demand: they are truly awesome.

EJ opened up my eyes to the possibilities of semi-transformation decks. *Most* such decks still don't grab me, but as has been previously mentioned, Natalia Silva and Elephant Playing Cards (the Pipmen series) have a similar kind of whimsy and cleverness that grabs me enough to make me pick them up whenever there's a new one.

I do hope that Emmanuel returns to the playing card fold. His work is a genuine treasure.