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Divination Playing Cards

Created by Mike Wilson - Thedoc318

A set of playing cards inspired by divination boards and lost souls.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

📢 Kickstarter Update: Decks Printed, Gilding Complete, and Shipping Update 🚢
over 1 year ago – Wed, May 24, 2023 at 09:08:29 AM

Exciting news! We wanted to update you on the progress of our project and share some important shipping details.

First things first, the decks for Divination are officially printed, and you’re going to love how they turned out. But that's not all—the gilding process is now complete, earlier than expected, adding a touch of elegance and luxury to each card. Also, the books are printed and the boards are already here and waiting.

Now, the moment we've all been waiting for—shipping! We're thrilled to inform you that our decks will be leaving on the boat early next week, bound for their new home at Randy's house. The estimated arrival time at Randy's place is around mid-June, which means it won't be long before we can start getting these decks into your hands.

As soon as the decks arrive at Randy's house, we'll immediately get started on fulfillment, so you can expect your decks to be on their way to you shortly after their arrival.

We can't express enough how grateful we are for your continued support and patience throughout this journey. We know the wait feels like forever, but we promise it'll be worth it once they arrive.

Thank you for being an essential part of this project. We'll be back with more updates soon. -Mike and Randy

Quick update
almost 2 years ago – Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 05:03:01 AM

We gave the go ahead to Legends after seeing the proofs. Both decks are now in production! The wooden boxes for the Gilded Sets are also on their way! Everything is going smoothly and we expect fulfillment to be on time.

Also, Backerkits have gone out. Check your spam/junk folder, if you haven’t received yours. We’ll let you know we’ll in advance before we are going to lock them down and prep everything to begin shipping. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out and we’ll get them answered. Cheers, Mike and Randy

We Made It!
almost 2 years ago – Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 04:53:55 AM

Thank you for hanging in there throughout the campaign. It was a rollercoaster for us, especially the last 5 days! The campaign was funded on 3 different occasions before finally remaining over the goal. Thanks to those of you who came on board from the start, pledged during the campaign and stayed, we managed to weather well over $3,000 in dropped pledges. It's the nature of the beast that is Kickstarter...

Legends

Since we were on the edge of funding for most of the campaign, we held off on posting print files(in case we didn't make it). On Thursday, Randy posted the print files to Legends to get things started.  We don't expect the delay to affect our June shipping ETA, as we always add a cushion month to account for any unforeseen problems in production.

BackerKit and Add-Ons

BackerKits will be set up around mid-April. BackerKit is where you’ll be able to specify or add any Add-On items (including a few Wood Box Gilded Sets that will be available as a BackerKit Add-On). Keep in mind The Wood Box Gilded Sets are very limited.

Payment Problems

Any Backers with payment problems will have about a week before Kickstarter drops them as a Backer.

Thanks again for helping make this campaign a success. 

Project We Like

Also, if you were interested in the Divination Decks, you should check out the Fire Rites Lunar Calendar campaign by Wendy Marvel. It's fully funded and only has 3 days to go! 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fullmooncalendar/make-100-equinox-calendar?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=fire%20rites

Printer Change
almost 2 years ago – Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 09:30:03 AM

Hey Everyone,

It’s Randy, designer of the Divination Decks. Mike and I thank you again for your support!

We’ve come to a decision that we thought we should announce as soon as possible. We’re moving production of the Decks over to Legends Playing Cards. Mike and I both wanted to print Divination with USPCC, but there’s a couple things behind-the-scenes that have really delayed progress.

The first is a lot of back-and-forth with USPCC on which specific Indiana resale license we need for printing with them (every time I’ve printed with USPCC in the past with Honeybees, Sketch, ORNATES,… were always through a company I freelanced with). They finally pointed us at the one they want, but it would cause a 3-4 week delay waiting for it to process.

The second problem is the USPCC lawyers just came back with changes they want with some of the occult elements in the design (even though we asked them to pre-approve the design months ago). That’s when I told Mike “we’re out!”.

I’ve printed over 30 different Decks with Legends, so I know they’ll do an amazing job printing the Divination Decks! We hope you stick with the project. We wanted to make this announcement as soon as we made the choice, and we wanted to be as transparent as possible.

One thing I know for sure - with Legends there’s no risk of uneven border registration on the Cards!

Thanks, Randy

New Reward Tier
almost 2 years ago – Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 02:50:14 PM

After several questions about adding on Gilded Divination Sets, we have added a new reward tier with a limit of 5 backers. You will be able to pledge for 2 full Gilded Divination Sets. 

This includes

2x Wood Boxes
2x Wood Ouija Boards
2x Wood Planchettes
2x Companion Books
2x Pair of GILDED Decks
2x Pair of regular Decks

Thanks again for supporting the campaign and we'll talk soon! 

Mike and Randy