The Art
The deck has 96 cards: a 42-card Hand set, a 42-card Deck set,
and a 12-card Victim set. The Hand and Deck sets each have
six cards of each sin; the Victim set has 12 unique victims.
The cover art features a fifteenth century woodcut of "The Temptation
of Saint Anthony," showing a bearded man being held aloft by a horde
of hungry demons. View the backs of the cards:
The internal art features woodcuts from the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.
Most of the images are religious in nature, suited to the subject matter, primarily
depicting perpetrators of each sin writhing in their particular hell.
Each card includes the sin category at the top and the first letter of the sin in the
upper-left corner for holding ease, and flavor text at the bottom. The terribly twisted
texts, unique for each card, were written by Michael Wilson and Jason Wiener.
View a sample sheet of sins and a victim (seven level-3 cards, one victim card).
SOURCES:
Medieval clip art courtesy of:
ArtToday.com and The Picture Book of Devils, Demons,
and Witchcraft by Ernst and Johanna Lehner (Dover books).
Cover Art:
"The Temptation of St. Anthony"
Woodcut by Martin Schongauer, c. 1480.
Font:
Demon_night supplied by Dave at Symmetricity.com.
For more of Jason Wiener's work, see Madwomb.com
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