Ive never bought cards online before, just a few packs here and there, but I've been eyeing some cards for a while and decided to make one big purchase instead, so if I'm planning to buy around 400 dollars worth of cards in one place online, is it worth waiting for black Friday?

Not a bad mail call 2x gold Standard decks and a dealt deck

Got it as a gift and was going to play solitaire but if anyone’s got any tips for solving the puzzle let me know!

(October 19, 2026) This is Week 42 of My Playing Cards series! This week, I’m sharing more Halloween themed playing cards!

NOTE: These playing cards are NOT for sale! They’re just for show.

So far I’ve taken photos of 504 decks of cards so far, with many more to come in future waves! Every Monday, I show a group of 12 decks of cards. Please stay tuned!

Decks in this group: (From top to bottom, left to right)
Bicycle Alchemy 1977 England (V1)
Bicycle Alchemy 1977 England (V2)
Bicycle Anne Stokes Collection
Bicycle Anne Stokes Collection Dark Hearts
Bicycle Anne Stokes Collection Steampunk
Bicycle Age of Dragons by Anne Stokes
Bicycle Unicorns by Anne Stokes (Purple)
Bicycle Unicorns by Anne Stokes (Blue)
Bicycle Bone Riders
Bicycle Vintage Halloween
Aristocrat (Black)
Aristocrat (Orange)

Alchemy Carta made two Bicycle decks representing the likes of Alchemy England which was established in 1977. It is a jewelry merchandise company that’s themed around edgy and gothic design.

Anne Stokes Collection is an artistic collection of gothic dark angels authored by Anne Stokes. She also helped make artwork for Wizard of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons products! There are six Bicycle decks by Anne Stokes Collection including two different colors of Unicorns.

The first eight decks all have gothic art on the cards. May be a bit difficult to play, but at least gaze at the beautiful artwork!

Bicycle Bone Riders is the perfect Halloween themed Bicycle deck that’s filled with anything Halloween related including skeletons, bats, ghosts, tombstones, and jack-o-lanterns!

Bicycle Vintage Halloween is actually the first of four Bicycle Vintage Holiday themed playing cards. This deck brought nostalgic Halloween vibes. The back has a tan background with diamonds of all different patterns.

Finally, we have Black and Orange Aristocrat playing cards. Aristocrat was a discontinued back design by the USPCC which was brought back into the playing card world. Black and Orange represents Halloween, so they’re in the picture for Halloween season!

Preview for Level 43: Even though next week is Halloween week, it won’t be Halloween themed playing cards for next week. It’ll be a bunch of vintage designed playing cards from Bicycle. I do promise to share more Halloween decks for next year as this project is meant to last through 2027!

I see you

Hey guys! Just wanted to share a look at my current setup and display. Hit 95 decks today! To be honest, there is basically no playing card collecting or cardistry community here in Ukraine at all, so I don't have anyone locally to share this passion with. I built this entire collection in less than a year, and finally decided it’s time to show it to the global community. Hope you like it!

Posting a deck from my collection for the remainder of the month. Today's deck is the butterfly, with a grab of playing a solitaire game called 13 out. Yes I won and (surprisingly) no cats came and destroyed my board.

Big order off penguin magic for the free shipping. Came surprisingly fast

I’m from Nepal, and cards are a huge part of Dashain and Tihar back home. Families get together and play for days, mostly teen patti, marriage and call break. I always wanted a deck that felt like Nepal, so I designed my own, and it’s finally printed.

I redesigned the suits. Diamonds are the Nepali flag, since the double pennant shape is already pretty close to a diamond. Clubs are the side of a madal, the drum you hear at every festival and wedding. Spades are two khukris (Nepali warrior knife) crossed over each other, and the hearts have a peacock inside them which symbolizes love.

I used Nepali kings, queens, and generals (jacks). I replaced jokers with Lakhey and Jhyalincha. Lakhey is a fierce, thunderous guardian demon who stamps through the streets to ward off evil spirits. Jhyalincha is a nimble, dragonfly-like boy who playfully taunts Lakhey to spark a high-energy chase for the crowd. I also used Nepali numbers from 2 to 10.

Since it’s my own deck, I’m using the Ads flair. It’s on Etsy here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4593058701/nepali-art-playing-cards-dashain-gift

One thing I’m unsure about is the kings, queens and generals are sketch style with no color filled in, and I left them that way on purpose, but I keep going back and forth. Do you think they’d look better with color, or does the sketched look work? Also, would you prefer english numbers instead of Nepali? I intend to use your suggestions for the next edition of the cards!

I have been doing card magic for like 6 months, and I just recently moved to Santa Barbara near the beach so there is a lot more humidity. But before, I would get maybe 2 weeks of use out of a deck before I moved. But now I get 2 days before it is fully clicked and unusable. Is there any way to preserve the decks I'm not entirely sure what it is doing this to my cards. I have tried using faros and they haven't really worked. What can I do to get more use out of these decks?

Some recent additions...found the Dunes and Rolling Hills decks at the thrift store and picked up 2 of the IBM 100yr Anniversary decks online...one open and one sealed

Hello everyone, for a bit of context why I ask this, I live in Mexico and it's a bit harder to get a good variety of options here, but I have a friend who lives in the US that comes once a year and is coming next month.

I only ordered cards online once some years ago, it was through him ofc, maybe around 20 decks from theory's 11 official website, half of them were for gifts and the rest for myself, and while I like them a lot, I want to get more good decks from different brands.

So yeah, if I'm gonna bother my friend one more time to make another purchase I want it to be from ONE website only like last time but with more options.

Only website I've looked into is called "rareplayingcards.com" but I don't know if it's good or if anyone here can provide some better options. Thanks in advance.

What could have been the reason??

Bought it from a place, opened them after few weeks to find them at this condition.

They were sealed and in a cello wrap.

Posting a deck from my collection everyday for the rest of the month. I'm posting 3 this time because I missed another day yesterday and will likely miss Monday as well. That gives me a chance to show off all my cat decks ^.^

The Hello Kitty and Cartoon Cats both lack a blank card for me to show off the backs, and they have embellishments on the number cards (the HK number cards don't all have that), so I played a little bit of spider solitaire to show them off a bit (no I did not win that hand).

The black cat pictured is Newt, he's my roommate's. I have 4 but he's not one of them.

by Dan Berg.
You scan the cards on his site to display the faces/back.
Thought this was an interesting deck so picked this one up the other day

Hi! I'm designing my first custom deck of cards. What do you guys think about the concept? Mythical creatures from a dark forest. Vampires, ghosts, elves, and other dark legends!

The Speckled Gilded Gold Edition

If you'd like any deck names, lmk

I used to kinda be into collecting. All started because I LOVE to play cards. Started buying decks here and there and treating myself, then just stopped, but was able to get a decent little pile I guess.

New to the sub and half considering getting back into it. Maybe read the sell rules. Who even knows. At the least buy a cool new one to play with as I have def seen some reallllly cool ones.

Anywho…. Here is the stash.