Dominion Gold Playing Cards

Dominion playing cards uses custom illustrated courts of the most well-known Kings and Queens of fictional and non-fictional empires of all times.  It reimagines the courts of a standard deck with illustrations that are gorgeous and colourful, with intricate details.

These cards feature full foil printing. The result? Imagine spray painting a mirror, you would have some shiny silver bits that you leave without paint, and some colourful bits depending on how much and which colour you spray on the mirror. This is a rudimentary example of how the full-foil printing and production process works.

Typically this printing technique is used on trading cards (Pokemon) but never on playing cards due to the research and development involved in ensuring the playing cards handle just as well as a standard deck, with no clumping or chipped edges. Full-foil is beneficial because you can overprint multiple colours to make any part of the artwork shine with varying reflectivity levels, exactly where you want it to be. No more detail loss or artwork shift like you can see with hot foiling.

The tuck is equally as stunning: Acid-etching and hand-crafted embossing plates create rounded embossed elements in the artwork. In addition the tuck boxes feature embossed elements within the hot foil. An advanced packaging technique which is masterfully highlighted by Jody Eklund’s artwork.