As some of you may know, I'm a massive card game nerd (and definitely not a gambling addict) so I have a pretty big collection of promotional playing cards from various conventions/casino, and looking through them recently made me realise SOTF-TV wouldn't dare miss on such an obvious money making opportunity - so I've decided to take a crack at putting together a custom deck to represent this using the characters in the 3 fully played versions!
I’m using this website to generate the base icon, and then messing around with it in paint.net, before feeding it back into a local copy of Stable Diffusion to produce these pieces. The prompts are under each card, although as this is an obfuscated model I can’t provide seeds or CFG/Sampling Steps to allow replication.
Some further notes on how I’m approaching this;
1 card per handler – MW graciously provided me a list of all the folks who have written in any TV versions and that came out to 109 in total, so it’s flat out impossible to feature everyone involved, but maximising the amount of people who feel represented seems like a good decision. MW is also the exception to this rule, having written 2 survivors which would obviously be represented in this deck.
4-colour deck – I’ll be utilising the WPT standard of using a 4 colour deck both because it means I can use a greater variety of colours, and also because I want to actually print this deck at some point and play it in my home poker games and 4 colours makes identifying flushes considerably more easy. For those unfamiliar, this is the following scheme (Spades=Black, Hearts=Red, Diamonds=Blue, Clubs=Green).
Vague suit theming – I’m not going to be too much of a stickler for this, but I’d like to follow the traditional meanings of the suits in the characters represented on them – Spades = Villains, Hearts = Heroes, Diamonds = Anti-heroes/morally ambiguous, Clubs = Everyone else. If you can match a character to more specific card/cartomacy meanings (e.g. 7d being lucky, As being representative of death), that’d be very cool, but is definitely not required.
If you’d be interested in helping, please let me know either in the thread or via Discord what characters you think (either your own or another’s) would be suited to a particular card!
SOTF-TV Playing Card Project
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Some suggestions:
Anastasia Arcadia: Queen of diamonds or clubs. AnArchy is prominent, out-there, and has an actual royalty theme going in her narrative. I lean towards diamonds because she starts out with good intentions before falling into darkness, hard. Also, diamonds are a red suit and she drinks blood. Could also be the Jack of Diamonds, which is still a face card but Google says carries connotations of unreliability, which is fitting.
Seo-yun Lee: Maybe the five of clubs? Seo-yun is definitely in villain land, and the site I'm on says the five of clubs is associated with friendship/support. Seo-yun really wanted the adoration of others, and also received a helping hand at a couple keys points to get her out.
Anthony Golden: My googling says the nine of clubs is a warning about being stubborn, which I think has quite a lot of applicability. Unless we wanna shove him in Hearts somewhere for the meme.
Corin Albanesi: Six of diamonds? Corin is in that big ol' in-between land for morality, and Google says the six maybe means communication hiccups/relationship troubles. A lot of folks die around Corin due to those things.
Mason Ross: Jack of hearts. Young? Check. Blonde? Check. Good friend? Check.
Will muse on more later!
Anastasia Arcadia: Queen of diamonds or clubs. AnArchy is prominent, out-there, and has an actual royalty theme going in her narrative. I lean towards diamonds because she starts out with good intentions before falling into darkness, hard. Also, diamonds are a red suit and she drinks blood. Could also be the Jack of Diamonds, which is still a face card but Google says carries connotations of unreliability, which is fitting.
Seo-yun Lee: Maybe the five of clubs? Seo-yun is definitely in villain land, and the site I'm on says the five of clubs is associated with friendship/support. Seo-yun really wanted the adoration of others, and also received a helping hand at a couple keys points to get her out.
Anthony Golden: My googling says the nine of clubs is a warning about being stubborn, which I think has quite a lot of applicability. Unless we wanna shove him in Hearts somewhere for the meme.
Corin Albanesi: Six of diamonds? Corin is in that big ol' in-between land for morality, and Google says the six maybe means communication hiccups/relationship troubles. A lot of folks die around Corin due to those things.
Mason Ross: Jack of hearts. Young? Check. Blonde? Check. Good friend? Check.
Will muse on more later!
Fisk equals joker.
Otherwise he’d be the 9 of spades because 9 Respects.
Edit; 9 of spades really fits actually seeing the meaning of the card. It just means death and dread and regardless of if you were Fisk, or if you saw him coming you knew something HORRIBLE was going down.
Otherwise he’d be the 9 of spades because 9 Respects.
Edit; 9 of spades really fits actually seeing the meaning of the card. It just means death and dread and regardless of if you were Fisk, or if you saw him coming you knew something HORRIBLE was going down.
Catche thinks my squirrel is Fisk so here's my daily reminder that he is not.
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Very late and probably pointless but I looked up things and now I gotta say them
Either RJ Blackburn as 8 of Clubs, or Jasper Suárez-King as 7 of Hearts
From what I've found, 8 of Clubs is difficulty in business and love, and considering the guy he liked died day one and pretty much any time he tried to do something with other people it went wrong, I think RJ qualifies
7 of Hearts, meanwhile, has a connection to broken promises, which Jasper has plenty of towards his younger sister Catalina, having planned to be with her and protect her, only for distance and SOTF to come in the way for both
Not sure if this'll lead into anything, but in case it does, someone else can choose which boy gets a card. Partial to it being Jasper since he's the gambler, but RJ is the one who's relation to the card is in-game and mainly focused on
Either RJ Blackburn as 8 of Clubs, or Jasper Suárez-King as 7 of Hearts
From what I've found, 8 of Clubs is difficulty in business and love, and considering the guy he liked died day one and pretty much any time he tried to do something with other people it went wrong, I think RJ qualifies
7 of Hearts, meanwhile, has a connection to broken promises, which Jasper has plenty of towards his younger sister Catalina, having planned to be with her and protect her, only for distance and SOTF to come in the way for both
Not sure if this'll lead into anything, but in case it does, someone else can choose which boy gets a card. Partial to it being Jasper since he's the gambler, but RJ is the one who's relation to the card is in-game and mainly focused on