By Patrick Rothfuss
on August, 2017 on Kickstarter
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Pat Rothfuss and Echo Chernik have been fans of each others' work for ages, and while they've brushed up against each other before, this is the first time they've been able to team up to bring something beautiful into the world.

When first discussing this project, Pat and Echo both stumbled when trying to decide which 12 characters would get to be face cards. Eventually, they realized that they didn't have to decide, and would instead let you decide which characters you want in your deck. What makes this deck truly unique is its customizability.

We have two collections of decks created by Echo Chernik, each with not one, but two distinct decks that have matching back, but different face cards.

You can choose your favorite characters from each of the two matching decks and combine them to showcase your favorite characters, all while still having two complete, playable decks of cards.

If you'd rather have Bast in his Fae form in your core deck, you can swap him in for Ambrose. If you want Wilem and Simmon together, swap Wil in for Young Kvothe. Those swapped out cards will live in your second deck, and your favorites will be in your primary deck. It's that simple.

You can even combine the two decks to make one large deck with eight different kings, queens, and jacks. Games like double-deck Pinochle are made all the more interesting by having all unique cards instead of duplicates.

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10,090 backers

Thousands of fans of the novel The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss flocked to this project.

$630,300 raised in only 45 days

One of the highest grossing Kickstarters for playing cards in history.