Air Deck 3.0 – The ultimate travel playing cards

Our mission is to make the ultimate travel playing cards. After the success of our first two Air Deck and three Nanobag campaigns, and more than 37k backers later, we’re now ready for our sixth campaign. 

Created with feedback from the community, here are our seven new designs: 

• 52 Playing Cards + 2 jokers
• Waterproof and washable
• Compact travel friendly size
• Lightweight
• Durable heavy-duty ‘casino quality’ 0.31mm PVC
• Premium printing
• Slightly textured on both sides for better handling
• Sturdy 0.4mm waterproof synthetic paper tuck box
• Playing card size : 3.43 x 1.26 inches (87 x 32mm)

PS. When pledging, just select the number of decks you want. You get to choose designs in the checkout.  

Air Deck 3.0 is made with the same high-quality materials as the original, but there’s a few new things:

• Five fresh new designs voted on by our community.
• The boxes now have indents to make them easier to open.
• We’ll be planting even more mangrove trees to offset our emissions many times over. We believe being a climate positive company is important. 1 tree gets planted for every two decks sold.

With the Air Deck 3.0 we did not want to compromise on quality. We went to several of the world’s best manufacturers of premium casino cards and asked for the best materials they could provide. In the process of creating the ultimate travel deck, we tried out over 50 different high-end plastic materials. The materials were taken through scratch, bending and handling tests to identify the best candidate. Finally, we ended up with a premium ‘casino quality’ PVC that has all the properties we want for our deck.    

The Air Deck is made of a casino quality PVC

 The Air Deck is incredibly resistant to tearing and bending, and is 100% waterproof. You can play with these in the pool, in the boat, in the tub, in the rain, at the beach, pretty much wherever you can think of. 

In the process of selecting the material we sought advice from several playing card professionals. The end result is a deck that shuffles and handles like you expect professional cards to do. The cards are slightly textured on both sides to provide cushioning and excellent handling. 

We created the new designs for Air Deck 3.0 with the wonderful supportive feedback we’ve received from our community. Despite their smaller width, the cards are as easy to read as standard sized decks. The full-sized length ensures that they also handle much like regular cards, and the narrower width makes the deck fit nicely in the palm of your hands.

Blue Classic, Aqua Mandala, Night Sky and Red Classic comes with traditional looking face cards, while Retro, Geometric and Electric has a more minimalistic look: 

We love traveling this beautiful blue ball we call home, and we believe we should care for it as best we can. There’s only one planet earth after all. We consider the Air Deck 3.0 to be an environmentally conscious product to begin with, as it contains half the materials of its competitors, and is made of durable materials which provides a long product life. However, with this campaign we’ve upped our commitment to the planet by planting one mangrove tree for every two decks sold with our tree planting partner, Eden Reforestation Projects.

Mangrove trees are one of the most effective tools to bind CO2 to the soil, thus preventing it from escaping into the atmosphere. A mangrove tree can sequester up to a ton of carbon dioxide by the time it reaches 40 years old. As a bonus, they also help sustain coastal ecosystems, protect shorelines from damage by storms and acts as a filter to maintain water quality.

The idea for the original Air Deck was conceived by fellow globetrotters Ursus Negenborn and Rune Kippervik while traveling South East Asia. We love playing cards, and we just couldn’t find a deck that was perfect for carrying at all times. As we’re big fans of optimization, we decided to create the ultimate playing cards for travelers ourselves.