Obtuse Suits

Obtuse Suits are a series of booster packs with 15 cards. The majority of the booster pack contains 14 cards that are similar to a traditional suit of U.S. playing cards. (Ace, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,Jack,Queen,King,Joker.) The common things that each booster pack has is a matching back-image and ranks that allow the cards to be played like a traditional deck of US playing cards. This allows players to mix and-match any 4 booster packs to make their own decks of playing cards with unique suits.

The Obtuse Suits and there pips I plan to make, so far…


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16 different suites
[Completed]

Spades

Hearts

Diamonds

Clubs

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1 suite
[Completed]

Laurel Wreath

Stars

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Horse Shoe

Pentagram

Cups

Wands

Swords

Clover

Minimalism (Circle)

Minimalism (Tall Rectangle)

Minimalism (Rhombus)

Minimalism (90* Triangle)

Button(input)

Coins

Smoking pipe

Door keys

Piano keys

Mighterbump
First group of pips/suit themes

Each suit that was completed has 15 cards per booster pack. “Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, Joker, Info”

The Info Card has the suit’s main background one side and the basic info of the artist or suit’s stats on the other side of the card’s face.

There will be multiple colors of each suit when the suit’s theme allows it. (Black, Gray, White, Purple, Blue, Cyan, Green, Yellow, Orange, Brown, Red, Pink, Bronze*, Silver*, Gold*)

*The metal colors are not leaf gilded but just printed art illustrations to simulate metallic texture.


If you want to make your own Obtuse Suit, the Back-Card.PNG is below so you can use to make your own suit of playing card. You can make you own account on The Game Crafter [link] to create you own 14 card booster pack that is your own suit.

You don’t need to follow regular playing deck design etiquette to make your own suit. You can design the Ace, Jack/Knave, Queen, King, Joker face cards any way you want. You can make different suites for different projects or stages in your career. In fact you can think of this as another business to create you bespoken merchandise like those plushie or plastic figure businesses.

Here are the two Game Crafter products with the design specs and downloadable templates that you can use to match other Obtuse Suit booster packs.

I hope you can make your own suit that friends, family, and fans can collect to help support you!

(The Collective page that lists other people’s Obtuse Suits will be available if other people let me know of their online stores.)

Back-Image design for generalized shared Obtuse Suits (optional)
Obtuse Suits logo (optional)
Print margin template for the front face of playing cards.
Debugging template for Rank and pip traditional locations on a card
Debugging template for the Ace card
Debugging template for Face cards