El Reino De Los Muertos Playing Cards- Expert Edition

The El Reino de los Muertos is a limited edition deck of playing cards that celebrates life and death in the Mexican culture. This artistic and cultural project is not only a card game, it is a narrative, a desire to recover and exalt Mexican traditions.

This is a limited edition collector item as the production is limited to 5,000 decks. 

In this tribute - to our ancestors and heroes, to Guadalupe Posada and to the great Mexican engravers; to Death, to Life — you'll find iconic characters from Mexican culture, from classics like La Catrina, to revolutionary heroes and pre-Hispanic gods. 

We retake iconic elements of Mexican culture, from pre-Hispanic times to the present day, and adapt them congruently to the classic language of the poker deck, with a deep respect for the aesthetics of our country and the style of the court card figures. 

We also intended to create a balanced and eloquent graphic mix that harnesses the power of the traditional aesthetics of the Day of the Dead and expresses itself through the language of Poker figures to achieve a style never seen before in this type of object.

“Only those who pass the nine tests can enter the Mictlan. Only he who is worthy will live eternally with his ancestors in The Kingdom of the Dead. ”

El Reino de los Muertos - Expert Edition Playing Cards

•  56 cards! (52 cards + 2 jokers + 1  double backer + 1 gimmick card) 
•  Fully custom art for all the numbered cards, back design, court cards, aces and jokers.  
• Fully custom art for the tuck box.
• Printed by Cartamundi on their amazing Slim Line B9 Stock & Finish. 
• Limited Edition of 5000 decks.

El Reino de los Muertos - Expert Edition Playing Cards features original art for every card it contains (court cards, aces, joker, regular number cards and back design) inspired in the Day of the Dead, the design focuses on 2 main elements:

• Life and Death in the Mexican Culture
• The myth in the day of the dead tradition

The back design combines traditional elements that represent the day of the dead like the cempasúchil flower color (the traditional flower used to honor the dead), papel picado, pre-hispanic imagery and calaveras. The aces integrate a combination of elements from the traditional celebration of the day of the dead and pre-hispanic glyphs and symbols, For the Ace of Spades the traditional Calavera is at the front and center, mixed with some Cempasúchil flowers and pre-hispanic imagery adorning it.The court cards have been designed to depict different iconic characters from the Mexican culture in a Calavera / Catrina fashion (Revolutionary heroes and pre-Hispanic gods.)

The tuck box design centers around the celebration of the day of the dead integrating each and every classic element from the day of the dead celebration over a black layer that helps the designs and colors pop out.  The Jokers designs are a Devil that represents the story of the graphic language of the past in México and a Bagpiper that represents the foreign armies that have helped Mexico in past wars. The Numbers, Indexes and Figures (spades, hearths, diamonds and clubs) have been combined with modern elements elements to enhance and complement the unique curves and lines that form the overall design of the deck.