Curio & Co. Musterberg Tarot - Production Update

Let me catch you up with some of the production updates…  The clock is counting down to SDCC and the things are moving along… It's definitely been a busy week!!!

Here are some quick excerpt from my social media activity in the past days

The package will come with a seal here we have the prototype of how it will look - Details make a difference – Seal it up!

 The cards actually went to press two days ago and the first plate to run was of The Fool…

And here we have the tarot cards before they get their corners rounded. 

We are almost done with the production…

A little aside – two days ago I met up with the largest Austrian card manufacturer - Piatnik –and got a full tour of their facility.  I love that stuff!!!

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SDCC Unofficial Blog Promotes Curio & Co. Musterberg Tarot Deck

I love it when people share what we do ; ) It inspires me to do more ; )

A Thanks to SDCC Blog!!! 

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Curio & Co. Tarot of Musterberg - Bonus in the Package

The file for the cards is at the printer!

So…  Now that the Curio & Co. Musterberg tarot are at the printer we are finishing off the Cartomancy Guide and the Game Play Rules for the set. The instructions will also include how to best read the bonus card of the Siren and how to use it in the card game.

The booklet will be bundled with the cards in the package and will be 64 pages of fun. Yup! the text will have a Humorous slant to it.

The picture is of the package prototype in black and white. The final package will be in full color.

No. 22 of the Major Arcana  - The 79th card of the deck.  We always do things just a bit different and this is us adding a little twist to the tarot deck, giving an extra splash to cartomancy as well as the tarot card game. Yup! there's a game you can play with tarot.

And here are a couple more cards from the Major Arcana, cards that are usually part of every tarot deck.

Musterberg Tarot Deck by Curio & Co.

I'm in the process of designing the decorative elements and laying out the package for our Curio & Co. Tarot deck – below is a rough layout for the front of the package.

Why Musterberg? Well they have to come from some where, and in our Curio Verse many things come from Musterberg ;P

FYI Musterberg in german is the John Doe of cities.

And here's an other one of the card that will be in the box…

Curio & Co. Tarot Deck - see it first at SDCC

About the back of the cards of the Curio & Co. tarot deck. In the spirit of reproducing a fictional 1700's tarot card deck, each card will show independent ware of its back. Each card will be unique in front as well as back.

Because they are intended to be collectable the cards will also be printed on acid free paper and will be produced in a small quantity, we are deciding on the quantity right now but we know for sure that it will be below 500 sets.

A couple of days back we got the proofs for the cards… and we picked the set-up and color of the back of the card.

Here are a couple more cards that got colored since the last post… Some of the cards underwent some design changes during the coloring process ie the The Tower and The Stars.  If you compare the images to the ones of the prior posts you can see the difference.

This card of The Creature is the equivalent of The Devil, it's the same number in the deck