The Poker Deck of the Drowning World Review 4K
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- In this episode we are reviewing a deck that reminds me of of the film Midsommar from director Ari Aster in more than one way. As you’ll see they share a green pastural setting and nature oriented paganistic overtones that permeate the artwork in much the same way the film dors but also because it promises and sheds light on a horror that is all to clear and present. I promise you, much like Midsommar, this deck is unlike what you’ve come to expect. Make sure to stick around all the way to the end of the video for a chance to win a deck of these cards for yourself, from me the Gentleman Wake, and remember for the best in content for curious collectors like, subscribe and ring that notification bell.
The official title of the deck I’m reviewing here is the Fledermaus Workshop presents the Poker deck of the drowning world, a panoramic parable told in 52 scenes. The deck comes packaged in a beautifully illustrated tuck case. The front iterates the deck name in a poster-card style layout. Behind the floating placard bearing the title. the image shown is a verdant and winding stretch of green grass lands punctuated with still blue lakes. In the clear skies above a row of distant clouds a flock of white birds swirls. This is a deck that wears it’s artwork on its sleeve, figuratively and literally, as the sides, top and bottom eschew traditional text and copy in favor of small sequential images of the 52 scene parable promised by the deck’s title.
The back of the box is an image of one of the decks kings, the king of birds (we’ll get into that distinction a little later). The king towers over the same landscape as on the front, except the birds swirl around him, perching within him on the sills of windows and trapdoors built into the tall straw-man structure. There’s a totemic quality to the figure that we’ll see echoed on all the kings.
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I can really see the Midsommar reference. I love Ari Asters' movies, especially Hereditary.
Due to the bright backgrounds of the deck, it reminds me of the singer and songwriter Novo Amor. His music is quite peaceful and uplifting, his album art consists of pastel colours and earthy tones and the artist himself is almost completely eco friendly (he has more information about how he is eco-friendly on his website)
I suppose they reminded me at first of the movie 'The Wicker Man'.
The deck locks like a tarot like deck to me. I have some decks where all the cards are custom, but didn't have any like this one where the cards tells a story. Also, very creative use of the custom suits.
I just want to say that I love how you describe what you are seeing. I could just listen and be able to visualize it.
Beautiful illustration of the playing cards
And it really reminds me of the four main elements of the world: Fire, Air, Earth, and Water. Somehow it just reminds me of Angels and Demons regarding of the four elements
I think they really remind me of all those nature series, in the way that the deck and such series have the same goal. They want to educate people about preserving what is beautiful on this planet. What I really love about the deck is that it is so direct in telling you that it is mankind that is causing all this.
I love this deck! We’re using them for cartomancy on my channel.
The Inconvenient Truth and The Wicker Man films come to mind...
Pretty sure its "An Inconvenient Truth", not 'The.'
This deck is powerful and beautiful all around in my opinion. The deck at first reminded me of the movie "Wicker Man" starring Nicholas Cage but as the review progressed the message of the deck reminded me of "An Inconvenient Truth". The theme hits home for me as well and thank you for sharing your message and feelings about climate change. Finally I would love to see more unusual reviews from you. In my eyes, you cant go wrong with a review of any kind.
Thank you very much for your support Tokala. I also see a little bit of wicker man. I should have mentioned it in the review!
Those cards remain me of some of Salvador Dalis magnificent paintings! Gorgeous playingcards! 🤩 🤟🏼
To me it reminds me of the movie Cloud Atlas. Atleast the cycles and the fact that we as humans are so destructive
this reminds me of where the sidewalk ends poems. The deck looks like it would be a book, at least in my eyes something Silverstein would write or even draw.
Another great review TGW 👍🏻👍🏻love the connection to midsomer great movie👍🏻 nice pumpkin carving skills 👍🏻not my favorite deck✌next😛lol
I think this custom deck is unique ,and have beautiful picture of border and design
Nature talk in this playing cards ,i love it
From the Artworks of these long named, I immediately got the thought of ancient civilizations as how they supposed to be looking
Hey TGW,
Great video, really liked the video recommendation in this first half, and I definitely think you got the best deck review channel out there (although I hope you hear that all the time).
It's funny that the first piece of artwork I thought of was Waterworld with Kevin Costner. I suppose it was all the water in the drawings, but I also see the industrialization, regrowth, drowning aspects of the suits in the film as well.
Loved the review bro, I would definitely like to see more unique decks like this! But these decks reminded a lot of that movie “the happening” because of nature taking over lol.
Weird how I missed this video. Very interesting deck even if it’s not something I’d buy.
When you mentioned a possibly cyclic theme for imagined the deck could be shuffled and laid out and tell it’s own unique story every time the cards are shuffled.
The metal man with the birds coming out reminded me of the Colossus of Rhodes for some reason :)
Wow man! Thank you for another excellent review of a mind-blowing deck of cards 🤩 even through its a bit "dark"..
Listen, my wife is not familiar with your channel, but if she finds out who is the person that makes me spend all this money on playing cards, she will hunt you down!! I wish I win this deck so I don't have to buy it myself.. because I will.. And than we both end like this burning king.. 🤴🏻🔥🤴🏻
The colors and theme reminded me of some Magritte's works. As you said it's sad they didn't put more work into the back design, as the front is so cool.
Aesthetic ❤️💗 feels like i'm being poetic when i see those beautiful art on the decks 💗❤️
Wow what a beautiful deck!
wow the story and artwork of this deck really evokes some disturbing emotions. I love it. There are parts of it that remind of me tarot cards... some light and some with a creepy darkness to it.
The very stoic figures remind me of the amazing art by Rene Magritte. Also, I have to say that the message of the deck is really important.
Sweet deck. Looks like something Salvador Dali would make. A Dali deck would be sick.
The deck really reminded me of the movie I saw called the great green wall. It’s about the reforestation on Africa’s Sahel
Reminds me of old medieval paintings. It has the same tone as some of Hieronymous Bosch's paintings
Omar, if you're interested in the collapse of the dystopian world, you should check out The Year of the Flood novel trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam) by Margaret Atwood. You'll know her by her great work The Handmaid's Tale!
In terms of the cards, although you don't prefer the backs, I see the back as the pollution of water resource by an oil spill, once again a very grotesquely vivid depiction of the world we live in now. I love this deck sooo much due to its motif, but I have to say this video has become my favorite video of all time on your channel. Your extremely powerful, cautious, yet elegant narrative style really demonstrated the fullness and richness of this deck, something that I could never reach even as a fellow reviewer. Thanks for this.
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Thank you sir! Much appreciated! I'll check out the Atwood series for sure! I got credits on audible.
I really like that deck it's very calm but also very different to everything else. It looks a bit like titanic. It's very natural with the birds but is also very human.
You can think a long time over this deck...
It might be a little bit strange but this deck reminds me of Vivaldi four season, but this deck offers a lot more and i absolutely love it!
The deck reminds me of multiple scenes from the Bible. Pretty interesting that Man is ultimately the cause of all problems is always seen and has been known for a very long time.
These cards remind me of a sweden children story named "Nils Holgerson". The artworks on these cards looks like I imagined the set/world this story plays in.
Perfect example of long beach California. First started off as beach with trees and sand then became a port for ships then industrial revolution made that area boom with business and then with all of its growth it started to spiral out and now is a perfect example of a destroyed city and now hundred years later we still don't see life taking over but hopefully one day everything goes back to nice city. (Long rant, probably didn't explain it well enough, sorry)
I'm reminded, to a small extent, of the art found in Uusi's Pagan deck. :-)
These cards are amazing!
This deck looks like a tarot deck and it reminds of some beautiful and intricate paintings.
It was nice and interesting it reminds me of Great Thunberg and her powerful speeches
Hey, I won lol
Great review as always, this is a fresh and unexpected take on an artistic deck!
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This deck reminds me of "The box is full of miserable creatures -- but one of them doesn't belong there." animation on Omeleto. Despite the fact that it has nothing to do with Global Warming, it is filled to the brim with symbolism and can be interpreted in multiple ways.
These cards remind me of the art of my witchy punk friends who hand draw pieces that express their grief. I have a few of those. Liminal spaces on insta is one.
It feels personal and honest and sad.
I fucking love it.
really reminds me of history id say and how as we progress we might ultimately be spiraling to non existence
It reminds me of the work of romanticism in poetry and the idea of nature Vs industrialisation. And how human activity can affect the environment around us.
for some reason it reminded me the first season of True detective series
That feels unlike any art I have ever seen. I have no idea why but it made me think of Time Bandits.
I cannot believe how little effort they put into the back design. The back design is the most important because its on every card, and its what got the least effort here. The poor back design alone is enough to kill the interest in this deck for me, despite the fact that I absolutely LOVE the concept, the art on the faces and just about everything else about the deck. The back is so bad it ruins the whole deck for me, despite how magnificent the other side of the cards are. I also havent the deck being sold by any of the retailers I use, which is something I cant say about any other deck.
The deck reminds me of the imagery that might have been perfect for a book i read (my review is on Goodreads) that is named "The Fool's Journey Through the Major Arcana" by Noel Eastwood ... This is a sadly beautiful deck and as a side note I personally saw the "cloud/birds?" as a pestilence/man whose destruction was evident even before his arrival ... great deck, this is one i would like having ... as always thanks for sharing and a Happy Halloween to the family
Reminds me of Hand de Beer with his little polar bear.
Check out the painting Civilization and Destruction by Sewon Rai
Wow, this deck is beautiful. I really love it.
Not sure why but the card backs remind of a Dr. Seuss book. Maybe it is the shapes and colors. I am not really sure why.
It reminds me of art from the past.
This deck strongly reminds me of Tarot and Oracle decks
Reminded me of the Burn the Witch videoclip
The fire definitely reminds me of burning man, i dont know if that counts as art
I haven't seen Midsommer, and I honestly don't think I can watch it...I don't do well with scary. But the deck kind of reminds me of a renaissance style art version of the worlds elements, being tampered with by humans. I feel like it isn't far off to think that.
Thank you for your words on the climate crisis. I especially appreciate you sharing how it makes you feel. Proud of you for your vulnerability, mssr Wake
This is my favourite of all your reviews so far. And I feel like I have said that before. So, take that to mean your already high quality is clearly just continuing to rise.
Thanks Shawn! Means a lot. Especially since I think this review will probably be one of my more underperforming ones. Lately I just feel like if I’m not adding a little bit of extra value it’s just an unboxing. Thanks for the continuing support!
@@TheGentlemanWake This is a very appropriate review for just before Halloween. Very earthy, cosy, thoughtful, and unsettling.
I didn't say a word threw the vid and it remindet me of my self
"Totemic Quality" - nice. My initial impression from the back of the tuck was The Wicker Man, but not that horrible Nicolas Cage remake (sorry Tokala Truehart, watch the original version if you get the chance.). Midsommar reminds me of that movie as well .
I would say they reminded me of a.movie or something but after u said they abused the swirl feature in photoshop I can’t unsee it lol hope I win this one
It reminds me of what the white man did with the native land. Including the skin hunting buffalo hunting.
The backs of the cards remind me a lot of the cases and wallets from Carved.
The cause is different, but the effect is similar. The movie, annihilation. People who Enter this Sort of time space bubble begin to disintegrate into nature itself either growing into a Vine the and by the advanced nature within or other such peril. Sure she that does a ways and fantastic art I love C apocalyptic theme and were the aggressive nature of man eventually being overrun again by his own craft and then consumed by nature.
u rly deserve more attention..
This means a lot Patrick. Thank you.
This deck reminds me of a Van Gogh painting
Has anyone here seen the movie the village,for some reason the deck reminded me of that movie.
oddly enough, this deck reminds me of The Ice Age movie
This reminds me of the movie "The Man From Earth"
Art is similar to the art in the movie The 9th Gate.
I'm really disappointed at the card back, as you've said, it really looks effortless and reminds you that the person publishing the deck isn't the same as the person who designed these incredible faces.
ha, these actually remind me of the video game: what remains of edith finch.
These don’t really remind me of anything I have seen. I really love the way the numbered cards tick through the story’s timeline. I would really like to see more storytellers using transformation decks as a format to tell their tales.
theses cards remind me of the first time I took magic mushrooms
dont know why it reminds of sound of music
It reminded me of old ages art. Kinda weird.
Am I the only one feeling a bit low on energy after watching this? Though there was nothing wrong in the video
It’s a deeper context than my normal vids to be sure. Not a “fun” review. Probably will underperform. Still I felt compelled to do it. Anyway thanks for the continued support as always Furrukh.
So agree
somehow these cards and the artstyle remind me of alice in wonderland
Midsommar is extremely overrated. Everything was already shown before. The plot concept is borrowed from The Wicker Man
These cards remind me just how serious climate change could be. It really is unfortunate.
Beautiful deck. Global warming isn't real though.