• Cryptids playing cards - Mothman and Black Shuck decks by Alex Haines
  • Black Shuck playing cards by A. Haines, printed by Legends PCC
  • Mothman playing cards by A. Haines, printed by Legends PCC
  • Black Shuck deck and tuck box
  • Mothman tuck box side, red woodblock print style
  • Black Shuck tuck box
  • Mothman tuck box
  • Black Shuck Ace of Spades and aces
  • Mothman Ace of Spades
  • Black Shuck Jokers diptych
  • Mothman Jokers diptych
  • Hand-drawn vintage court cards
  • Diamond court cards
  • Club court cards
  • Mothman red cards
  • Black Shuck card spread
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Legends Playing Card Co.

CRYPTIDS - MOTHMAN & BLACK SHUCK

CRYPTIDS - MOTHMAN & BLACK SHUCK

USD $20.00
USD $20.00
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CRYPTIDS PLAYING CARDS: MOTHMAN & BLACK SHUCK

Two hand-drawn vintage decks by Alex Haines

Only 90 decks of each are available here, get yours today!

Two legendary creatures, two companion decks. Black Shuck is the ghostly black hound of East Anglian folklore, said to have burst into St. Mary's Church in Bungay, Suffolk, during a storm in August 1577. Mothman is the winged, red-eyed creature reported around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966 and 1967. Together they make up the A. Haines Cryptids collection.

The tuck boxes are printed inside and out on soft matte stock in a woodblock-print style, inspired by the broadsheets and pamphlets that first reported these sightings. Black Shuck is black with red; Mothman reverses the scheme to red with black. Each box is finished with a custom stamp sticker seal.

The two decks share the same hand-drawn two-way back pattern (black for Shuck, deep red for Mothman, each with its own creature details), with spades at 3 and 9 o'clock and cut triangles at 12 and 6 that look striking in a fan or spread. The courts are redrawn from an antique British one-way pattern into symmetrical two-way designs, with chunky antique pips, refined indices and warm vintage colours.

Each Ace of Spades features its cryptid, and the two Jokers in each deck form a diptych: place them side by side to reveal one large illustration of the creature.

Designed by playing card artist Alex Haines, the artist behind Imported Brand, Osprey & Goshawk and Copperhead. Everything is drawn by hand, with no AI and no stock artwork.

 

Looking for the Gilded Editions?

We only carry the standard editions here. The Gilded Editions (black gilt edges for Black Shuck, red gilt edges for Mothman, with a metallic seal) were limited to 250 decks of each and are available from the artist:
Black Shuck Gilded Edition | Mothman Gilded Edition

Check out Alex's store www.AHplayingcards.com

Feel the difference with a Legends PCC printed deck!

 

DETAILS
Print Quantity: 900 decks per design (650 standard, 250 gilded). (90 Mothman and 90 Black Shuck standard editions for sale here, Gilded on Alex Haine's site HERE)
Feel and Finish: CLASSIC FINISH™
Card coating: LPCC #202100 USA produced / water based
Card cutting: LPCC Diamond Cut / Traditional
Card backs: Hand-drawn two-way pattern. Black (Black Shuck) / deep red (Mothman).
Card faces: Poker size (63 x 88 mm). Custom two-way courts, custom Ace of Spades, 2 diptych Jokers. [TO CONFIRM: 55 or 56 cards per deck]
Tuck exterior: Soft matte uncoated board, CMYK + 1c Pantone 3517 red, custom stamp sticker seal.
Tuck interior: 1c red (Black Shuck) / 1c black (Mothman).
Manufacturing facility: Legends PCC exclusive partner factory, PRC.
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