Traditional card decks have fancy Ace and Face cards, but the 2-10 cards are usually plain. Some decks have illustrations on every card, though, such as this:
- Recent Boardgames (Your Last Played Game Volume 2) - #7386 by Captbnut
- Recent Boardgames (Your Last Played Game Volume 2) - #7389 by Captbnut
The only such deck I have1 is the Regicide deck.
Which other fully illustrated traditional card decks do you know of or own? And where can we get them from? :)
1 Not strictly true – I also have a deck illustrating different butterflies, and another with pictures of Scottish castles. There are probably hundreds of “arbitrarily slap a picture on each card” memorabilia-style decks, so perhaps we can omit the more egregious cases from the thread.
I wrote a book on playing cards a few years back and was going to use these (public domain) images, but in the end someone with a modern transformation deck got involved and we used his deck instead. But yes, transformation decks are where the typical pips are drawn over to make pictures on every card:
