Metallic Decks

[EmpyreanKnight]

If the Ethereal Visions is indeed metallic, there's no way that it won't be added to my collection. Also, the cards are larger than average as per its USG page. Since I like my decks huge, yup it's gonna be mine.

[Carojulie]

I just unsealed the Golden Lenormand Oracle, and what I noticed is that while it has the gold dot pattern on the backgrounds like in the Golden Universal, it doesn't have slabs of gold foil in the actual images themselves, as the other decks in Lo Scarabeo's metallic line do. Which I honestly think is a good thing, since in Lenormand decks, one should easily be able to discern the central images without any visual distraction.

 

The cream/sepia background and the saddlebrown linework on the borders complements the gold so well. And the cards are bigger than the average Lenny, with a very pleasing gloss. The images are not very sharp tho.

 

It comes in a handsome sturdy box tho, with a competently-written (as far as I can tell) companion booklet. Overall - it has a great production value. I definitely look forward to using it. Very highly recommended! :)

 

I just saw that deck ! Thank you Knight for calling our attention to this sweet gold lenormand, swoon, swoon ! Right on my wishlist this one.

[EmpyreanKnight]

I hope you'd enjoy it as much as I do, Carojulie. It's so very lovely. <3

[FLizarraga]

Yes, Baba decks can reach incredible prices once they get OOP and land on the secondary market. I twice found Baba decks on ebay though, at very reasonable prices - probably sellers that did not know what they were selling. In each occurence, the name of the artists was not in the listing (not listed under Baba Studio or Magic Realist Press). One of them was simply listed under the title "Rare tarot deck", I would have missed it entirely if I had not had time that day to iddly browse ebay ! So miracles happen :)

 

Anyway. If you like metallic decks, I strongly encourage you to get the Tarot of Prague before it goes OOP. I saw what happened to the Alice tarot : the minute it went OOP, the price doubled. I am glad I could get it when it was still in print ! I have learned that it is better not to think to long about Baba decks : if you can afford it, just get it while you can, otherwise the price just rises and rises like a dough with too much yeast.

So if you like metallic deck, and if you can afford it, you WILL love the current edition of the Tarot of Prague.

And there is now the Victorian Romantic in metallic overlay, which promises to be phenomenal. We are still on the pre-order period for this one, so it is a little less costly than the Prague one.

 

Carojulie, you just provided the folks here with valuable advice worth hundreds of dollars. Seriously - thank you for being generous enough to share this. Even with just this I would have been so glad that I started this thread. It's so fitting that someone provided such golden advice in a metallic decks thread. :P

 

And yup, I am so keeping an eye out on Baba releases from now on.

 

 

YES. They all go up, some more than others.

I missed a couple of editions of the Victorian Romantic, but I managed to snag a gold edged one on ebay for about a hundred bucks, which is not the massive increase that you see with some of their stuff. The main ones that go sky high are first editions, but things like cold stamping can do it too. So double whammy with the Alice.

 

Baba is meticulous about keeping their limited editions limited. I once tried hinting to Karen that the Bohemian Gothic would be earth shatteringly gorgeous with predominantly red and blue cold stamping (I still think it would), but they won't do that because it would be too similar to the Bohemian Gothic Silver. As much as I'd like a cold stamped BG, I have to admire their ethic.

 

If you can grab bells and whistles like a scarf or a wooden box, do it. The Mythical Creatures monochrome is already going for double price, and there's nary a metallic spot on it.

 

 

  <scattering my Mythical Creatures cards, shaking the wooden box and banging it against the wall> Where is my scarf? WHERE IS MY SCAAAARF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Carojulie]

But there were no scarf in the Mythical Creatures,  were there ? I dont have one either.

It's in the large Tarot of Prague that there was a scarf ?

[FLizarraga]

But there were no scarf in the Mythical Creatures,  were there ? I dont have one either.

It's in the large Tarot of Prague that there was a scarf ?

 

 

Oh. That's true. <looking at the remains of the wooden box> Oops.

[katrinka]

If the Ethereal Visions is indeed metallic, there's no way that it won't be added to my collection. Also, the cards are larger than average as per its USG page. Since I like my decks huge, yup it's gonna be mine.

 

Just wanted to mention, you can still get the non-mass produced LE here http://www.matthughesart.com/

It doesn't look particularly huge in the photos I've seen, but the gold foiling is gorgeous. I don't know if the USG gold is going to be as nice as the LE.

 

Matt's done a deck of playing cards with Northern gods on it, too. Very well done, but I'm passing on it - heavily muscled ones remind me of those tatts you see on racists and meth heads. I prefer the normal sized, Nigel Jackson type depictions.  ;D Others may be interested, though.

[EmpyreanKnight]

Thanks for the heads up, katrinka! I'd wait to see how they both compare through online reviews before choosing which one I'm going to purchase. ^-^