Flare Playing Cards is a collectible playing card deck born from a collaboration between Flare.io, a cybersecurity company, and Thirdway Industries (led by designer Giovanni Meroni). Its theme: cybersecurity and the "digital battlefield." The four suits represent the opposing forces in cyberspace: on one side the threats (Hearts and Diamonds: phishing, malware, ransomware…), on the other the defenders (Spades and Clubs: SOC analysts, CISOs, bug bounty hunters…). The jokers feature nods to digital culture (the Tor onion, Telegram).
True to Meroni's geometric, modern art style, the deck is fully custom and printed with silver metallic ink for a high-tech look, with a silver-foiled tuck box. Usable for any classic card game, it is an original collectible, particularly appreciated by the cybersecurity community.