It’s that time of the year! We have painstakingly compiled the best playing cards for All Hallows’ Eve just for you… the 2022’s Kardify Top 12: Decks for Halloween! This year with enough glow-in-the-dark monsters, bones, skulls, quirky characters, and steampunk pirates to keep your spine tingling through the night. If you have one that we haven’t discovered, feel free to share your favorite spine-tinging deck in the comment section below.
Note that the selection expressed in this top 12 are solely those of the author and the list is in no particular order.
From Stockholm17, the fully custom Black Requiem Counterspell features darkness and pain as a theme. The face cards come with gold and silver foil application 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.
The stylish Play Dead V2 from Riffle Shuffle features mixes of bold line and shape patterns with the 3D forms, but this time with a teal-green colorway. Designed by Steven Harrison, the Skull theme pops with complementary colors and lines.
The fourth edition of Fulton’s October is a frightfully fun and whimsical deck featuring the illustrated artwork of Steven Noble. This edition comes with UV glow-inks that come to light up when exposed to a black light. These look absolutely unreal!
From Joker and the Thief, Psychonauts Playing Cards explore reality beyond the perception of the five senses! This unique deck features custom art in reference to real-world influential spiritual figures hand illustrated by Pedro Oyarbide.
A fully custom Bicycle-branded playing cards by PlayingCardDecks inspired by childhood memories of attending the circus! The custom court cards represent circus characters, from the ringmaster, juggler, and acrobats to the strongman and tightrope walker. The retro feel of the deck adds to the charm!
Arcane Tales by the Italian designer Giovanni Meroni is the second deck of the Tales series inspired by Fairy Tales, Fables, and Fantasy Books. The decks offer a vast array of characters of the most popular fairy tales, from witches, elves, to giants and orcs. Definitely a fun deck for Halloween!
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Produced by Riffle Shuffle the deck is inspired by mysterious occult practices. The overall design looks deceptively simplistic at first glance. However, hold the tuck box to the light to reveal intricate details that were hiding in the shadows. Fully custom artwork insides with stunning metallic inks.
Shamanic Journey
The unique Shamanic Journey playing cards by 3rd Dominion features unique tuck boxes with ornaments that are filled with hidden abstract images of lizards and birds, as well as invisible, UV-glow images of wolf, shamans, and skeletons. Inside, the deck is fully custom with hand-illustrated court cards, jokers, bold Ace of Spades, and detailed card backs.
The Campy Creature Deadluxe Playing Cards are designed by Keymaster Games featuring twelve unique hand illustrations of notorious B-movie horror monsters including The Blob, The Invisible Man, The Man-Eating Plant, The Swamp Creature, and many more.
Beowulf playing cards inspired by the longest epic poem with the characters represented on the face cards in unique carving-styled artwork by Jackson Robinson. The deck is kept in a tuck case designed to resemble an ancient book, including life-like features to resemble canvas and leather design-work, and finished with realistic wear-n-tear details.
By Nicolai Aaroe, Vengeance of Witches is a 17th-century witchcraft playing cards, manufactured with deluxe features in two limited editions. The artwork on the full bleed card backs features intricate artwork printed with metallic copper inks and blood red accents in Pantone. The face cards are hand-illustrated and feature archetypes inspired by the 17th-century witch-hunts.
Two years in the making, House of Playing Cards, Noctober deck features a cut-out Jack-O-Lantern tuck design and an eye-catching neon orange colorway with black borders to bring that Halloween vibe to the deck. The coolest feature of using neon colors in playing cards is the magnificent glow when shined under a black light!
The selection expressed in this top12 is solely those of the author.
