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gunnarkr wrote:I don't think that the deck matters so much, as long as you are happy with it and the cards are good to handle.
trickyricky wrote:My first of 3 reviews on my latest order from Ellusionist.com! I couldnt find any existing reviews on 2 of the 3 things, so im not sure if i will write the third yet. Anyway...
Masters Deck - Red
The Effect
Hmmm......Not so much an effect......Just an deck of cards thats been what i like to call 'Ellusionist-ed'
Cost
$3.99 a deck, or $39.95 for a brick. Also, if you order 3 decks it saves on shipping costs but you dont get a discount off the price of the cards.
You can order and see the demo video here
Difficulty
To be able to perform with this deck, you require the ability to open it. The ability to perform various tricks would also be helpful.
Review
If you have ever held and felt Ghosts, then you will know how the Masters deck feels. It has the exact same coating on the exact same card stock. The only difference is that instead of getting out your ordinary red bikes out, you get these out and nobody will be able to tell the difference apart from you. Oh and the lovely new Ace of Spades might give it away slightly too.
The new Ace of Spades is nice. It features a fairly bulky spade design with an image of an eagle with its wings spread. There is also a red crown above the eagle that is hard to see against the dark background of the spade. The colours are mainly grey, white and black, with a deep red shading and lighter red for detail.
I dont know what else to say about the deck! They feel nice in your hands, have a nice Ace of Spades design......er...... oh the box features a little revelation in the barcode as well. Which is nice. Think 'Bikes crossed with Ghosts, plus funky new Ace'! Cant say much more!
Overall
7/10 - Although being a good deck, it does feel like Ellusionist have ran out of ideas for card designs. So they just took an already existing product, coated it in layers of stuff, put it in a new box and sold it for twice the price. That said, im still going to treat these like i treat my Ghosts - carefully, and not very often, because i want to preserve the good feeling-ness of them.
dat8962 wrote:Waddingtons are regarded as the conmmon British playing card - Bridge size..........
I agree with GunnarKr regarding whether decks are suspicious. Obviosuuly some arouse more interest that onthers just because people notice that they have a different design and are interested. In my experience it's nothing more than this, and specs DON'T think that a green back deck of bikes MUST be tricked because it's less common than a red or blue backed deck.
People in general are not so dumb as to think that the only playing cards in the world are bridge size Waddingtons or red backed Bikes and I wish that people would accept this fact.
People will only be suspicious of your cards if YOU make them suspicious in the first place. A magician could go to Outer Mongolia and perform with a pink pastel fashion deck and people wouldn't give a jot about the cards if the magic was good.
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