DRACONIAN (new 2025 update!)

By purchasing this deck you are helping support future development in high-end playing card technology. We thank each and every one of you for your contributions and hope you follow us for more upcoming releases!

Continuing the Legends motto of constant innovation, ULTRA RED™ is an all-new dyed red paper for playing cards. This is the follow-up to the ULTRA BLACK™ stock seen on this Stratosphere deck.

The edges of this deck are not white or light grey, like you have seen on nearly every  deck of playing cards up to this point. They are SOLID RED! Unlike red gilding or spraying each deck's edges with black paint, which will chip and fade, ULTRA RED™ does not chip, and the deck will look and feel new for much longer. We wish we could have printed with this technology on the game-changing Ellusionist Black Tigers all those years ago!

We use an ultra-thin mylar, or full foil, and laminate it to the red core paper before they are printed on or cut (we can produce these decks in other solid colors as well). This forms a strong bond to the paper, making them water resistant. Because solid red paper is difficult to print on and inks will be absorbed into the paper, the full foil layer allows for a smooth, nearly opaque, and reliable substrate to print the artwork (which in this case is also mostly red, but can be any color). Blank parts in the artwork are where you can see the shiny effect of the full-foil under the printed inks.

Through your support in purchasing previous decks with this technology, we have experimented and improved the warping and creasing which were evident in the Stratosphere deck. The cards will handle even better, and the fans are stunning with this artwork from Randy Butterfield @MidnightCards

The cards feel soft and supple,  handling well for general use and flourishing.  They are slightly lighter in weight, and thicker than a Classic Finish / Bicycle deck.

The colored inks are printed on the full foil with a 2-ton sheet-fed offset UV printing press, and cured with UV light, not an infrared heat tunnel. This yields a different feel  to the cards than our standard Classic Finish.

We hope you enjoy these decks as much as us! 

Introducing the latest deck in the popular Draconian series by Randy Butterfield, Draconian Wildfire and Whit, a green and white version of the highly sought after (and now sold out) draconian Brimstone. 

The black Draconian Brimstone deck features a stunning example of, spot UV varnish over white ink, yielding a ghostly effect. Draconian is designed by famed playing card artist Randy Butterflied. A gorgeous full bleed artwork that creates captivating spiral card fans. The standard editions also features 5 Pantone color faces, which is very rare and requires a special process to print. 

The tuck case features embossing, clear spot UV varnish, and interior printing! A truly stunning tuck that looks like real dragon scales emerging from the paper.