Galactic Paradise, Season Two Playing Cards

Galactic Paradise, season two: It’s all about the waves: ocean AND radio! From the mind of Christian Byard of Relativity Cards, Surf Blue and The Signal from Sol editions of Galactic Paradise playing cards are now funding on Kickstarter

The Surf Blue edition of Galactic Paradise takes the classic v1 design and reimplements it in a gorgeous blue colorway. The black card fronts trade the original green accent color for the bright blue of the new backs. Also features new joker artwork. Soak up the sun!

Since the invention of the radio, humanity has shouted its stories to the entire universe. The Signal from Sol deck commemorates the stories that have gone out into the void!

The card backs feature a who-way borderless with text elements heavily incorporated into the design. The backs are filled with Galactic Paradise text, zooming back and forth like the constant bombardment of radio waves around and beyond our planet. As the text approaches the edges of the card, a double-image of that text starts to green-shift away, representing subtle distortion the signals gain on their strange journey.

The fronts of the cards contain text from public domain sci-fi stories, a different classic on every card! The negative-space pips suggest damage that the signal has sustained, and even the ends of paragraphs seem to evoke the streaking of cosmic energies!

ERROR is the THIRD deck made available during the Kickstarter campaign. The deck details what happens if the spacefaring radio signals featured in The Signal from Sol become too damaged and perhaps take on alternate, unexpected meaning. ERROR is a spiritual successor to the Black Spot deck from the OG release, Mutineer!

In that deck, every card face was plastered over with black spots: ink, graffiti, kitsch, and madness. In Error, The Signal from Sol transformed into a black deck with images made of text bleeding out of the background! Each card features a cryptic text image related in some way to the story featured on that card. This deck features a subtle one-way back design.

Both Surf Blue and Signal from Sol decks will be printed by USPCC with classic stock on linen finish and ERROR printed by Cartamundi. Pledge starts at $10 on Kickstarter.