I played my first ever games of contract bridge on 4 August 2023 in a physical room, the relatively small room of the Singapore Contract Bridge Association (SCBA), paired with someone who happened to be there that evening without a partner. I was so captivated by the game and the special decks it uses that I picked it up in earnest over the next month through a combination of self-learning (online play) and formal lessons at my alma mater the National University of Singapore (NUS); as a show of gratitude to all those who helped me in this journey and as a way of harmonising bridge with my pony/furry art, I decided to craft this pony-themed deck of standard playing cards suitable for said game. The immediate impetus, however, was an in-progress vector of four characters at a bridge table which I realised wouldn't look good unless the visible cards had proper illustrations on them.
My design combines several features found in real-life decks and adds a few more around them: