 Hey everybody welcome back to magic with a doxy. My name is David and this is a prototype Hey today, we're gonna look at the prototype for the Calaveras day Azucar playing cards. What is this? It's a Kickstarter project. It's going on right now. It's from Natalia Silva You might remember Natalia did the Christmas deck for Penguin Magic and since then she's done a couple of other Successful Kickstarter campaigns. This is her newest one her latest one going on right now So the Calaveras day Azucar deck is a custom deck of playing cards and it's inspired by Day of the Dead and these cards when they are printed will be printed from the United States playing card company This deck is devoted to the sugar skull because that's what Calaveras day Azucar means It means the skull of sugar. Okay, so sugar art actually Okay, sugar art was brought to the new world by Italian missionaries in the 17th century and the first Mention of sugar art was around Easter time where little sugar lambs and angels were made to adorn the Alters in Catholic churches. So nowadays What they do is they take a clay mold of these different sugar figures like angels and sheep and skulls Clay molds that date back to like the colonial century Sugar skulls are now decorated to represent a departed soul Okay, so they have a name written on the forehead and they're placed sometimes in a home or near a gravestone to honor the return of That particular relative and so sugar skull art reflects the folk art style of having big happy smiles Colorful icing sparkly tin glittery adornments And so that's what you see in sugar skull art and so this deck that Natalia has put together It's kind of an homage to that. It's a representation of that. It's kind of paying tribute to that Okay, this deck here is completely redesigned as a custom deck Like I said from artist Natalia Silva She's gonna limit this to United States playing card companies smallest run of 2,500 decks You notice that the deck the front of the tuck case has that sugar skull on it And it's adorned with all kinds of flora and fauna one side says playing cards made in the USA The other side says Calaveras de Azucar the bottom has Natalia Silva's URL and the top of the tuck case Just says poker size the back design of the tuck case is of course the back design of the cards And that's pretty much it for the tuck case. So let's take a look at these cards If this campaign is successful these cards will be printed from the United States playing card company They'll probably be on the modern stock I can't really tell you about how the stock is on a prototype deck because obviously this won't be the deck that you receive So there's no use talking about thickness or handling or anything with a prototype deck Okay, this is merely to show you and get you excited about the upcoming campaign back design as you can see has a black edge border and it has the sugar skull there on the top and bottom and it's Just adorned with all kinds of fruit and leaves and flora It's really very colorful very Playful deck the front of the cards and the pips and indicee cards Are also black edged borders and you notice that it also has a tiny little gold Border there as well on the inside. There is also a faint watermark of a sugar skull on the top and bottom It's just a hint Right behind the pips and indices and you can just barely see that also to mention since it is a black face Deck you won't have black pips and indices the pips and indices for the black suits will be yellow with this deck You'll get two sugar skull jokers And then you can see that one is wearing a hat and the other one is not they both say joker going down the side And they have the title of the deck calaveras de azucar. They're at the bottom the court cards are all original and unique and you can really see Natalia's art inspiration being implemented there these definitely look like Russian nesting dolls, but Russian nesting dolls with Sugar skull faces, so she's definitely Blending these two cultures together in her iconic artistry. I also like the four aces in that they're all given Attention, you know, they're not just a single pip in the center. She's done something creative with each one of them All right So that is a quick overview of the calaveras de azucar playing cards that are currently right now a project on Kickstarter If you like Natalia Silva's artwork, and you think this is a beautiful deck Especially if you collect the other calaveras decks that have been released. I know this is kind of a thing You can get these a lot of different ways And so I definitely want to head on down to Kickstarter and give Natalia Silva's project a look and Pleasure support and if you want to learn more about Natalia Silva or her work, you can find her and Natalia Silva net. Thanks. Bye