Tales from the Trade

Tales from the Trade

Promotional playing cards for business use

Promotional playing cards for business use are the most varied of all the playing cards we manufacture. Some people use them as catalogs - some use them to call attention to their brands - some use them for trade show giveaways and some companies use them as business cards.  All…

Foil Stamp playing cards go on sale at 1980’s pricing!

Well once a year we get to run a great special and now is the time!  Foil stamp playing cards are on sale again for cheap (an oxymoron quality cheap custom playing cards) and you can order as few as 50 decks!!!  There are over 20 colors standard for the…

Custom Shaped Playing Cards

Custom Shaped Playing Cards are some of the most unique playing cards we have ever made.  One of my favorites is the chicken leg shaped playing card shown here. One of the more common special shapes is a circle - and I particularly enjoyed the pizza shaped playing cards we created…

Tales of the Trade: Custom Tarot Cards

I have always loved Tarot Cards ever since my friend Denise told me I had a sister while reading them.  I insisted she was wrong - then I remembered I did have a sister - a half sister I had met only once - and low and beh0ld guess who…

New Black Custom Playing Card Window Boxes

It may not be exciting to the average person - but the introduction of black window playing card boxes is very exciting to me.  For many years we have only provided white window tuck boxes - but now - on orders of 200 decks and up we can provide black…

Custom Wedding Playing Cards for Wedding Favors

I used to run a wedding band for many years and that was my first experience dealing with brides.  We learned original songs for the brides  - we learned special song arrangements and one time we did an entire dinner set of acoustic Led Zeppelin during dinner.  Consequently, because of…

Custom Playing Cards for Cards Against Humanity

We were leaving the office right before New Years Eve when one of my artists came up to me and got really excited."We printed Cards Against Humanity?", she asked.  "Yes", I said. She had not been involved in that particular order so she did not know about it - but someone…

Customized Playing Cards for Nanobugs

As Nancy from Nanobugs says in her website: "We live in a world where human beings think they rule."  But we can sometimes forget about the completely unseen kingdom of tiny invisible microbes. Because microbes are invisible to the human eye, sometimes it is very easy to forget they are…

Custom Playing Cards for “Game of Thrones” on HBO – George R.R. Martins Book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire

Ad Magic was contacted by HBO to print a run of custom playing cards for their series "Game of Thrones" - but when the art came in I still had not seen Game of Thrones on HBO.  To be honest - I had watched maybe 2 seconds of it while…