Tuck box

Tuck box: The folded paperboard case a deck ships in — front, back, top, bottom, and two side flaps of full-color print real estate.

A tuck box is the standard folded cardboard case that holds a 54-card deck. It has six print surfaces in total — five outer panels (front, back, top, bottom, and one tuck flap) plus the inside, if you choose to print it — which makes it the deck's primary brand surface. For a corporate gift or Kickstarter reward, the tuck does more storytelling than the cards themselves, since it's what the recipient sees and handles before opening. Mr. Playing Card tuck boxes print on 350 GSM 16 point C2S coated cardstock and support gold/silver/copper foil stamping, soft-touch lamination, spot UV, blind and foil embossing, and matching insert printing. Standard sizes fit poker (2.6"×3.7"×0.85") and bridge (2.35"×3.65"×0.85") decks; fully custom dielines are available for non-standard card counts and dimensions. Free print-ready dielines for Illustrator, InDesign, and PDF are available on the templates page so you can drop artwork in without measuring panels yourself. Tuck boxes can be ordered standalone (15-box MOQ) or paired with any deck order. A pro tip on tuck design: keep the deck name and brand mark readable when the tuck is standing vertically on a shelf, since that's the orientation most photography and retail merchandising will use.