“From the North, from cold and windy Russia comes the Winter Deck. Winter is cold,dark and dangerous in the places this deck comes from, but there is a strange beauty in this danger. Beauty of a hunting predator, deadly but amazing.”
Winter Deck is a custom highly-creative deck of playing cards designed by Ultramarine Designs, a team of artists originally residing in Russia that has grown and obtained new members from USA and China.
Inspired by freezing tribal images of northern winter this artwork is called to show you all its mystic and dangerous beauty.
The deck will be printed by USPCC, using the Bicycle stock.
The characters in the court cards have their own story and each card shows their both white and dark spirits. Human and animal are the two faces of the same soul.
An essential character, Her majesty, The Ice Queen, Winter, appears next to all the heroes. She touches them, holds them, leads and punishes. Rules them.
A few words about the rest of the artwork. Four suits represent four different styles of characters.
Spades are evil. Their dream is power, they want to rule and nothing will stop them on the way of acquiring their aim. Anyone standing on their way will be eliminated. Winners never judged. Any weapon, any trick is acceptable on the way to your goal.
In Diamonds we want to represent you all the beauty, richness and color of our native land. These characters are orthodox Russians. A calm force, not aggressive, but powerful. You shouldn’t be afraid, if you do not harm Diamonds, but if you do, beware! They will crush you with unimaginable power.
Clubs will show you invincible warriors of the northern seas. There were times, when every captain’s worst nightmare was to see their sail above the horizon. The Vikings. The beauty of the northern fjords, power of a sea storms, glory of mighty warriors on their way to Valhalla – all this powers are sealed within Clubs.
Hearts came closer than anyone to the understanding of nature itself. The places said to be deadly dangerous are the sweetest home for tribal warriors of Hearts who keep peace of ancient northern forests. It is said that you will never notice a Hearts warrior until he kills you.
