My order arrived this morning.
1 Ghost Deck
1 Shadow Masters Deck
Ghost:
Look better in the photos online than in the hands.
The backs are nice but I do agree with others that have said an aged type colour would have been better than pure white.
My deck the backs are also off center, slight closer to the top of the card than the bottom. I think that might be useful as a subtle one way back but I'll properly never use it. It's not obvious so I'm not complaining.
The faces are nice and clear, strangely the lack of colour doesn't really look that great, these are pure black and white for the court cards. The only colour is on the red on the red card pips ( with a black border ). This is fine and makes easy to spot cards in a fan. Because the spots on the Heart and Diamonds are black, only the pips red it is a little confusing!
The Ace of Spades is nice but really not great, I was a little underwhelmed but it, the Pip is nice, it is the spade with and A in white on top of it.
The Jokers are okay, again nothing really special.
The Finish. Maybe it was because my hands were cold and I'd been to the gym the night before, but for me the feel of the cards wasn't really that different from a regular Bike Riders deck. I opened a new deck of Riders just to be sure.
Shadow Masters:
Look very nice. A black deck is cool, sorry, but it just is!
The backs are nice, subtle, tasteful. faded gray on black.
The Faces of the spot cards are interesting, they are not a solid colour for the spots, it's like a sunburst effect from the center it's dark red or grey, fading to a lighter shade, most obvious on something like the fives. The court cards are monochrome grey(negative), I think they look quite good, better than the Ghost deck.
The Ace of Spades is okay. Not keen on the eagle type design.
The Jokers are cools, stately looking death figure, one holds the sands of time, the other a 3 of Diamonds reveal ( subtle ).
Finish is the same as the Ghost deck.
DB card is nice, I'll use that!
The barcode reveal is not great, properly never use it.
Conclusion
Ghost deck - nice but could have been better.
Shadow Masters - very nice cool deck to bring and show off with.
That's all folks.
I tried this as an attachment but I don't know what the size limit is?
Large Version of the image.
http://danteuk.gotadsl.co.uk/danteuk/SM_Ghost.JPG
EDIT: I only just noticed there is a barcode reveal on the Ghost deck box too. This is not advertised on the sites I saw them on.
EDIT2: See near bottom of the page for info on the Black Ghost 2nd Edition. deck.
More pics:
http://danteuk.gotadsl.co.uk/cgi-bin/imgpage1.sh?Magic