Get Decked

Published March 01, 2025 Updated March 01, 2025

Black and white cartoons devised by Sam Wagner with help from artist Lindsay Bevington.

2019 USA MPC (makeplayingcards.com) Sam Wagner Cartoon

Rather than try to review this unusual pack, let me quote from an email exchange which I had with its creator, Sam Wagner, in 2020 during lockdown. Sam is “based in NYC now though the deck was conceived in Los Angeles. I am a writer by trade but I threw on a more artistic hat and enlisted the help of artist Lindsay Bevington for help with these cards. The deck doesn't have a name but it does have slogans: 'In this deck, every card is wild' as well as 'Get Decked'. Lindsay and I were collaborating on a cartoon and had a lot of rejected characters that we loved too much to throw away entirely. Thus, the deck was born. This is my only deck at the moment but I am working on another one with a different artist”.

Every card is illustrated with a black and white cartoon. The design on the reverse was clearly inspired by those found on Bicycle packs. The pack was produced in one run of 50.

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Above: Get Decked created by Sam Wagner, New York, NY, USA, 2019. Produced through MPC (makeplayingcards.com), 52 cards + 2 Jokers in clear plastic box. Size: 63 x 88 mm.

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By Roddy Somerville

Member since May 31, 2022

Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.

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