Forbidden Kingdom Collectible Card Set at a Glance

Custom foil pillow pack, dragon-back design and the five artist character cards — every component of this limited edition trading card set is produced in-house by THRIWA.

This custom collectible trading card set was developed as a limited release merchandise item for the Forbidden Kingdom festival. Each deck contains five artist cards, each one styled as a fantasy role-playing character: archetype, hometown, element and signature power — all printed across a 300gsm black-core card body that feels heavier than a standard playing card in the hand.

The metallic foil wrapper is the real showpiece. Tear-open packaging, crimped ends, and a full-color dye on a high-opacity black substrate mean the artwork pops from the moment a fan picks the pack up at the merch booth. For brands and festival organizers, that moment of unboxing is exactly where custom foil packaging for trading cards earns its keep.

Design & Visual Features

Stained-Glass Fantasy Artwork

Every artist portrait is rendered in a cathedral-window stained-glass illustration style: cobalt blues, amber highlights and a deep violet that bleed into one another like sun through leaded glass. The artist sits at the center of a pointed arch, flanked by mountains, dragons and ornate heraldic borders that give each card the feeling of a stained-glass window pulled from a fantasy cathedral.

The card back continues the theme with a circular dragon medallion — wings spread, body coiled — surrounded by mandala-like ornamentation. When the cards are fanned, the dragon back reads as one unbroken piece of artwork across the deck rather than five separate tiles, which is a small but powerful detail for collectors.

Character Stats, Roles & Elemental System

Each card uses a structured stat layout borrowed from trading card games: a bold character name at the top, hometown and elemental affinity in the upper band, a short ability line in the center, and a clean ROLE / POWER summary along the bottom. That rigid grid means the card art can stay maximalist while every piece of text stays instantly readable on a crowded merch table.

• Role archetype — Farmer, Wizard, Druid, Archer or Fan Facts, designed to feel like RPG flavor text.
• Element affinity — Water or Wind, set against an amber underline that ties into the stained-glass palette.
• Hometown call-out — Buffalo NY, Boca Raton, Columbia SC, etc., giving each card personal character.
• Power or fun-fact line — short flavor copy that fans actually read at the booth.

Custom Metallic Foil Pillow Pack

The wrapper is a custom-printed metallic foil pillow pack with a tear notch on one end and crimped seals on both sides. Black substrate plus full-color CMYK artwork keeps the BASSRUSH wordmark, the Forbidden Kingdom dragon logo and the "Limited Edition Artist Cards" stamp all on a single high-impact surface. Wrappers are produced on the same production line as our candy bars, seed packs and cosmetics sachets — proven food-grade lamination and seal integrity with the festival's brand loud on the front.

Meet the Artist Character Cards

Five artist character cards printed with stained-glass portraits, RPG-style stats and a unified amber-and-cobalt palette — drop-in ready for any music festival or touring merchandise project.

All five artist cards in this limited edition collectible card deck share the same dimensions, the same linen-embossed stock and the same back design, but each portrait, role and power line is unique to the artist it represents. Below is the full lineup shipped in the foil wrapper.

Why Print Custom Artist Trading Cards with THRIWA?

THRIWA is the brand of Guangzhou Sanwa Poker CO., LTD. — a B2B collectible card manufacturer serving brands, festivals, musicians, tabletop publishers and crowdfunding creators worldwide. Every artist card project we ship is OEM and ODM capable, which means you can order exactly what's shown here, hand us your own IP, or build the whole set from a blank brief.

Material & Print Engineering

• Card stock — 300gsm German black-core paper keeps the cards opaque, edge-clean and shuffle-rigid.
• Surface finish — Linen embossing plus matte lamination gives a low-glare, premium in-hand feel.
• Color — CMYK offset printing with calibrated presses for batch-to-batch consistency across reorders.
• Optional upgrades — Hot foil stamping (gold, silver, copper), spot UV, holographic foil card backs.

Packaging & Wrappers

Beyond the foil pillow pack shown here, we produce custom tuck boxes, rigid mailer boxes, magnetic flip-top gift boxes, sealed blind packs and printed outer cartons. Our packaging lines support custom foil wrappers for trading cards, branded cello sleeves, multi-pack bundling and bar-coded retail-ready formats.

OEM / ODM for Festivals, Labels & Artists

We routinely deliver limited-run collectible card projects of 500 to 50,000 decks for music festivals, record labels and touring artists. Services include concept art, character system design, pre-press file prep, sampling, mass production, quality inspection and worldwide shipping. IP and character likenesses stay yours — we sign NDAs on request.

Customization Options at a Glance

Every custom artist trading card project through THRIWA can be tuned on three layers:

• Artwork layer — Art style (stained glass, comic, line-art, neon, watercolor, pixel), character count, character system, back design.
• Material layer — Card stock weight (280gsm–350gsm), surface finish (matte, gloss, soft-touch, linen), edge color, foil stamping.
• Packaging layer — Foil pillow pack, tuck box, rigid box, magnet box, gift tin, sealed blind pack with branded outer carton.

Product Specifications

Frequently Asked Questions

Request a Quote for Custom Collectible Cards

Send us your reference artwork, character list and packaging preference — we'll come back with a sampling plan, unit cost and production timeline within one working day. THRIWA ships custom limited edition artist trading cards to festivals, brands, labels and creators worldwide.

Or write to us directly at info@gzsanwa.com