We’re excited to share Missing’s most important project to date — one that could change the future of cardistry.
Our mission has always been to help the community grow by making cardistry more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.
In recent years, the community has expressed concern that cardistry is in decline — and fewer new people are joining, especially women and kids.
Cardistry seems simple to get into. All you need is a deck and some tutorials. But these already exist in abundance — and still, the community isn’t growing.
So we asked ourselves: Why? What’s going wrong? What can we do to help?
We study viral cardistry posts and read every comment. One message comes up repeatedly:
“I tried getting into cardistry, but my hands are too small.”
The typical cardist reply?
“Your hands aren’t too small, you just need to practice more.”
But that’s simply not true. Some moves are physically impossible with small hands. And more importantly, cardistry just isn’t fun when the cards don’t fit your hands.
We tested this by printing oversized decks — to simulate what someone with small hands feels when using poker-size cards.
The experience was horrible: frustrating, clumsy, and not fun.
We all want to see cardistry grow. Yet we expect people with small hands to use the same size decks as people with large hands.
It’s like asking a kid to shoot on a 10-foot hoop with a full-size basketball, or to skate on an 8.5” board — the gear doesn’t match the body. Cardistry should be no different.
While bridge-size decks exist, they aren’t proportionally scaled — resulting in a completely different feel. For cardistry to be truly accessible, small hands deserve the same experience as large hands.
The solution? Exact poker-size proportions, simply scaled down.
Over the past year, we tested 20+ new sizes across a wide range of hands. From this research, we identified the best new sizes that make cardistry more accessible and more fun:
100% (poker-size – large hands)
93% (medium hands)
87% (small hands)
This summer, we’re launching the first decks in these new sizes. More info soon ~
Let’s build a future where everyone can flourish — no matter their hand size 🤚
3.14159…
Pi (π) is an infinite, irrational number that defines the geometry of a circle. This deck translates the first 52 digits of pi into playing card form — pure mathematics in a tangible, ordered object you can hold, study, and shuffle.
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