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Good Pals Playing Cards
A Testimony to Life & Friendship through Collectable Art - we create playing cards that celebrate life, friendship and share important messages along the way.
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what to expect from our decks
Meticulous work goes into each Good Pals deck to make it feel unique. No detail is spared to ensure our customers feel each card has something new to discover.
Many of our decks feature numbered seals which indicate how limited some of our print runs are. In recent times we have even created Kickstarter Exclusive decks to make our customers feel like they own something truly rare.
Our brand motto is to create decks that celebrate life, friendship and share important messages along the way.
most loved aspects of our decks
We love colour. Our goal is to create back designs that stand out and stop you from putting your deck down.
Whilst they have their place, we have no intention of using standard Bicycle court cards. With each new release we are excited to create fresh and fully custom court cards.
Jokers + advertisement cards can be quite boring, but we want to change that. We aim to create unique extra cards to incorporate more custom artwork into our decks. Pictured here are the diptych Jokers from Halloween Tales V1.
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Good Pals Logo Playing Cards
Released in January 2025, our Logo Decks are a representation of the Good Pals brand and a practical, collectable set of decks for any occasion.
Our Red Logo deck acts as a workers deck, sporting our traditional brand colours. Our King Logo deck offers a fresh and clean tuck case + back design whilst our Golden Private Reserve is coated in gold foil and is our most luxurious deck to date.
Good Pals Halloween Tales
IIntroducing the most popular Good Pals decks by FAR - Good Pals Halloween Tales is a fully custom Halloween themed series of playing cards. From the card backs, to the numbers, to the court cards, to the jokers - expect Halloween art at every moment.
This deck is full of spiders, witches, ghosts, zombies and more! Get yourself into the Halloween spirit with Halloween Tales Playing Cards! Volume 1 was released in June 2023, followed by Volume 2 in September 2024.
Enjoy these cards whilst they're still available - they are all limited editions!
Chancers Playing Cards
"It's not the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand" - Chancers is deck of cards that stands for taking a chance in life.
Explore our fully custom deck of cards that features unique court cards and captivates the spirit of risk-taking. Originally released in Black + Red in September 2022, the Chancers series has now concluded with 6 standard decks and 7 gilded versions.
Chancers was the very first deck released by Good Pals.
Halloween Tales Deck Review
read more of our articles below:
The Story Behind Halloween Tales Playing Cards
Good Pals Halloween Tales Volume 1 - 2023 Good Pals Halloween Tales Volume 1 launched on Kickstarter on June 4th, 2023 (2 years ago...
The Story Behind Chancers Playing Cards
This article is going to tell the story of how Chancers playing cards was conceptualised followed by a bunch of fun facts and statistics about...
Our Entire Production History!
Playing Card Archive *Last updated: January 30th, 2025. On this page you will be able to learn about all decks created by Good Pals as...
Get To Know The Creator - James Kiernan
In this blog, I thought I'd give you guys a bit of a background story about myself and how I got to this stage in...
The Symbolism Behind Good Pals
One of the key inspirations behind Good Pals was that I wanted to create a brand that had some meaning to it. This is where...
Good pals membership - become a patron to receive exclusive benefits
Members get to see the creation of our decks from start to finish including draft artwork all the way to the finished product.
Members get to see all of this months before the release of the product. For instance, as of May we have already revealed 25 posts regarding the creation of Good Pals Christmas Playing Cards
Members of our Patreon are granted access to exclusive decks you can only obtain through our membership.
For selected Good Pals releases we will be creating some members-only gilded decks and future limited edition prototypes may be reserved for members only
By signing up to our membership we will grant discounts and special deals to you.
In rare instances some sold out decks come back to us (e.g returned mail) and our membership is a great way to get first access to these.
Find out more below:
fun facts and statistics!
Good Pals Production History
Ever wanted to know a detailed account of our entire production history? Every deck, every variant, print runs, year of release, etc. We've got it all covered below in our Good Pals Database...
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