Relaunched on Kickstarter, Trust No fella Playing Cards is a playful deck by Mexico City-based designer Peemouch. The concept of the deck is based on old cartoons from the 30s, the cuphead video game, and Alice in wonderland. For the narrative of the deck,
The 4 different factions of the playing cards kingdom lived peaceful lives, until one day our little mysterious cheeky devil arrived. Her motives are unknown but she is determined on having all the factions fight each other to the end! She has stoked the fires of the old hatred that has been dwindling for ages between all the factions, now she watches, scheming and waiting for the winner of the conflict so she can make her next move.
The fully custom deck is a mix of aesthetics of the cartoons from the 30s, graffiti, and abstract art. The use of contrasting colors and organic shapes gives this deck a touch of playfulness and fun!
The back design represents the conflict between the four factions. The whole back is engulfed in the flames of our cheeky devil, while at the center of the card is a hand being bitten by a snake in a circle with the symbols of the factions, this represents the conflict between the four factions of the playing card kingdom.
The 4 factions of the playing card kingdom are The royal spades, The noble hearts, The proud clubs, and The magical diamonds represented on the face cards.
The faction of the spades prefers to use swords over any other weapons, they are the most “royal” out of all the factions and were the leaders of all the factions before the conflict started. The spades king and queen are the only ones that have crowns.
The faction of the hearts is a very noble group, they prefer to use thin duel swords and long-distance weapons like bows and arrows, their king and queen think of themselves as above this conflict so they stay busy with other matters but they are ready to fight if they need to do so.
The clubs are the proudest faction of all, they only use axes as their weapons and have a very military-like structure in their ranks. They are very ambitious and are looking to take the leader position from the spades at the end of the conflict between the factions.
The diamonds have devoted themselves to studying magic and stealth arts, some could say that they are some type of magical ninjas. They prefer to use short knives as weapons. Some of their higher-ranking members use powerful magic as their weapon of choice. Their reasons to fight in this conflict are unknown.
The arrangement of the number pips has been given some variations, most of them are wacky variations that go with the flow and style of the characters in the deck.
The deck is packaged in a minimalistic tuck box to represent the idea of the user descending into this world Peemouch created where the little cheeky devil has created all this conflict and that now this world is engulfed in flames. Printed by the USPCC on Bicycle grade stock and pledge starts at $15 on Kickstarter.
