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I just recieved my David Blaine Split Spades deck and am very pleased.

The details:

Cost: $7.99 (US)

Comes with 56 cards.
2 Jokes that have the Liar/face
1 split spade
1 blank face card

I love the feel of these cards. It has a linoid finsh and seem very easy to handle. The cards also feel lighter to me. I can't really explain that. Anyway, highly recommended.

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I've been looking at these. They seem cool, but isn't it wierd how David Blaine is suddenly coming out with all of this different stuff? I mean he has:

Cards
http://www.ellusionist.com/order/Split- ... ne.php?cat

Signed Posters
http://www.ellusionist.com/order/David- ... rs.php?cat

Kind of wierd...I think he'll be making a comeback in the near future. Nice review though. You bought these from Ellusionist I assume?

I actually got them as a gift from my local magic store. They might have gotten them from Ellusionist?

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They look so cool! I'll need to see if my local magic shop sells them.

They do look really nice i must admit. If you live in the uk get them from http://www.cards4magic.co.uk

Im gonna get some when i get paid.

They do look lovely, but I wonder if they will be accepted as 'normal'. Bicycle, Aviator, and Bee decks are the standards, do we think the spectators will accept these when we do our stuff?

There are some tips to get black decks and split spades to be accepted as normal.

1. Treat the deck casually and give a brief reason for using it and why it's black. Any good patter will do. (e.g., bicycle made an error, black cards were associated with black magic, in the 19th century, etc..)

1. begin with a flourish routine.
a. rifffle shuffle
b. fan deck both sides
c. dribble cards
d. ribbon spread cards then use last card to flip ribbon.

2. have a spectator shuffle the deck in overhand shuffle.

These should enable the spectators to see both sides of every card and since a spectator shuflled and handled the deck thus eliminanting most people's perception that it is a trick deck. If someone in the audience is predisposed to believe you're using a gimmicks they'll believe this is a gimmick too. Making the audience accept the cards is simply the same as using misdirection in a trick.

These tips were obtained from "The Black Deck Book" and I think pertain to any peculiar colored deck we may use whether it may be the black tiger deck or blaine's split spades.

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Sounds good Archimage....this will serve all of us well!

i guess you can also fit in the lepaul spread in it too if you're standing up (and if you can do it ) bah...

even better, play a game of cards or somesort then do a trick with the deck