MPC Gods Playing Cards

A mythological Greek Gods deck of cards

The Gods Playing Cards is based on a Greek mythological heroes theme where we use 12 renowned Greek heroes to represent all 12 characters in the court cards. Limited production. Each character was studied to ensure we had a good understanding of the character before we went into the sketching stage. And as on standard playing cards, we wanted the characters to be holding an artifact which is related to themselves such as the king of diamonds holding a cornucopia which symbolizes abundance and wealth and on the jack on clubs is Dionysus who is the god of wine so he is holding some grapes and a cup of wine.

In general, the king cards are gods, the queens are goddesses and the jacks are young gods. The 2 joker cards is Zeus and Hades. Zeus is the strongest of all Greek gods in the upper world and Hades of the underworld. The aces took a bit of design time as we went through several designs. At the end we decided they should be of mythological children outlining the shapes of the 4 pips which we think is absolutely beautiful and adds a softer, more classical touch to the deck. The card back is a mirrored design of Zeus, the father of all gods and ruler of Mount Olympus.

See video of a sample deck of MPC® Gods playing cards