Malifaux 3E: Fate Deck

They are from cardboard, so some sleeves still needed for protection

Just started with Malifaux. These cards are essential! I love the art and style. Good cardstock and prints as well.

It's ok. I should have gotten a themed deck

another review mentioned "cardstock" and "cardboard" a couple times, which is a problem - these cards are made of the newer (relative to cardstock) plastic material that has been showing up in playing cards. i performed a highly rigorous scientific test sometimes called "eyeballing it" and the thickness of these seems about the same as magic cards, but they're much more flexible or limber. they're very fast and easy to shuffle, and the art looks great. and because they're plastic (again, not cardstock) they're not going to tear or degrade as the flexibility might have suggested in a non-plastic card.

another review mentioned cardstock and cardboard a couple times, which is a problem - these cards are made of the newer (relative to cardstock) plastic material that has been showing up in playing cards. i performed a highly rigorous scientific test sometimes called eyeballing it and the thickness of these seems about the same as magic cards, but they're much more flexible or limber. they're very fast and easy to shuffle, and the art looks great. and because they're plastic (again, not cardstock) they're not going to tear or degrade as the flexibility might have suggested in a non-plastic card.

Not sure what happened with the other reviewers deck but I LOVE this deck. This is still a plastic deck from wyrd, it definitely isn't card stock. Its more lightweight than their previous plastic decks like the twisted fate deck or the bad ink fate deck. The artwork is gorgeous and it feels great to shuffle the lighter thinner plastic. This may eventually lead to some wear and tear but its still miles better than cardstock. The one ding against it is the artwork/design. While the colors are bright and it looks very pretty, the deck can only be read from one direction. Its not symetrical and cant be read as clearly upside down, at least not for the large numbers. In each top left and bottom corner it does have text saying what the card is, that can be read from either side, but I doubt folks would be able to easily read that tiny text from across the table.

Not sure what happened with the other reviewers deck but I LOVE this deck. This is still a plastic deck from wyrd, it definitely isn't card stock. Its more lightweight than their previous plastic decks like the twisted fate deck or the bad ink fate deck. The artwork is gorgeous and it feels great to shuffle the lighter thinner plastic. This may eventually lead to some wear and tear but its still miles better than cardstock. The one ding against it is the artwork/design. While the colors are bright and it looks very pretty, the deck can only be read from one direction. Its not symetrical and cant be read as clearly upside down, at least not for the large numbers. In each top left and bottom corner it does have text saying what the card is, that can be read from either side, but I doubt folks would be able to easily read that tiny text from across the table.

The quality of these cards in horrible. While the art is great the cardstock is worse than cardboard used on the back of cotton swab blister boxes. They are about on par with Konami's Yugiho cardstock.

The quality of these cards in horrible. While the art is great the cardstock is worse than cardboard used on the back of cotton swab blister boxes. They are about on par with Konami's Yugiho cardstock.