When Lorenzo Gaggiotti launched Requiem Playing Cards on Kickstarter in 2014, the deck was unlike any other we’ve ever seen. It is gory and dark yet beautiful in a weird way. Last week, Lorenzo has dropped a special edition of Requiem, Black Requiem Counterspell.
Like the 2014 edition, the artwork is fully custom and features darkness and pain as a theme. However, the new deck comes with gold and silver foil application on the face cards and gold foil on the back design.
As the illustrations for the Courts, Jokers, and Aces are very dark, the Black Requiem casts a counterspell using Magick sigils on those cards depicting the feeling. All court cards and aces have a magick sigil overprinted with cold foil application on the center (gold for hearts and diamonds, silver for clubs and spades). All number cards have “healed” pips; not as the first version of Requiem Playing Cards.
The tuck box features white foil, black foil, embossing, and inner color in deep shiny red on black paper stock. Printed by Cartamundi and available now from stockholm17.com for $25.
