Bicycle Ghost Deck - By Ellusionist

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Postby Zero000 » Oct 10th, '05, 16:56



mark_c1975 wrote:You can do all the tricks that you do with a regular deck of Bikes or Tally's.

The Ghost Deck, unless you bought one of the gaff ones, is just a regular deck of cards, albeit fancy-looking.

i know that, but im trying to think of something, color changes or something like that

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Postby dat8962 » Oct 10th, '05, 18:40

I haven't ordered any Ghosts as yet but was wondering about the possibilities of doing a color fusion routine with these cards and some tigers.

Could make up some interesting stories when changing from a white grey to a black white backed card, particularly if you introduce the ghost deck in the box, show the whitish deck and then start talking about black magic or the dark side.

I think that an off centre printed ace would go down better in this deck than a tiger deck using a colour change.

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Postby dat8962 » Nov 29th, '05, 22:55

OK - I've got my hands on half a dozen decks, really nice cards.

So who's seen the Black Ghosts on the Ellusionist site? Not for sale but spend $350 (£203 at todays exchange rate) EXCLUDING POSTAGE and we'll send you a deck with dog tags and a bottle opener. Hmmm....... I wonder who's going to spend to get their hands on these. Not me!

Check out: http://www.ellusionist.com/Christmas-Contest-2005.php

and they call it a contest................

I think that I'd rather order from Penguin. Some VERY unsavoury terms and conditions.

(Nice cards though)

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Postby Zero000 » Nov 29th, '05, 23:13

dat8962 wrote:I haven't ordered any Ghosts as yet but was wondering about the possibilities of doing a color fusion routine with these cards and some tigers.

Could make up some interesting stories when changing from a white grey to a black white backed card, particularly if you introduce the ghost deck in the box, show the whitish deck and then start talking about black magic or the dark side.

I think that an off centre printed ace would go down better in this deck than a tiger deck using a colour change.


hmm i also saw that "contest" there the other day, i was almosted tempted to buy one more thing to get tattues, but i remembered i dont like tattue and i will never use them. so i just got the coin thing with criss angel

and doing a color fusion with GHOST AND TIGER DECKS?!
sure, you can go flush your money down a toliet :D

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Postby k88 » Nov 30th, '05, 01:28

I want the dog tags! Especially the Ace one. I love the Ghost Ace design :D

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Postby TylerD » Nov 30th, '05, 04:41

I have a ghost deck. I just got it a couple weeks ago. They are really nice. However they are just like a totally ordinary deck except black and white lol with the the corners colored in like hearts and diamonds. I like the Black Tigers a little bit more. However when I do a card trick to people I always use just an ordinary deck because people get suspicious when using a deck they have never seen and that is the last thing I need lol.

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Postby Garyz » Dec 5th, '05, 14:10

Mine arrived on friday. A very nice deck. I'm very fond of the joker cards, I recon Ellusionist sould have made another joker card, so that he is facing out of the card, therefore giving a chance to play around with some joker story (like you can with the tiger ace and the offset ace). I still favor the tigers over the Ghost tho.

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Postby momolicious » Feb 3rd, '06, 01:54

so is the printing problem gone?

man, these decks are expensive. regular colored is around 2.99 in stores

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Postby Demitri » Feb 3rd, '06, 07:10

What printing problem are you referring to?

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Postby trickyricky » Feb 3rd, '06, 14:20

The dogtags have actually gone on sale! $15 for the Ace and E logo and chain in a small pouch! All of the other prizes from the competition are going on sale too, apart from the Black Ghosts. I hope they bring them out, i didnt have enough money to spend $350!

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Postby Gambler » Feb 9th, '06, 19:56

Sorry for my bad english first... :? can anyone tell me how much does it cost to order the Ghost Deck to finland..? i mean shipping..?
And I noticed a nose problem on kings to... On all my black tigers... :shock:

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Postby Demitri » Feb 9th, '06, 20:54

Gambler - the nose printing is not a mistake - it was intentional

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Postby Zero000 » Feb 10th, '06, 04:00

Garyz wrote:Mine arrived on friday. A very nice deck. I'm very fond of the joker cards, I recon Ellusionist sould have made another joker card, so that he is facing out of the card, therefore giving a chance to play around with some joker story (like you can with the tiger ace and the offset ace). I still favor the tigers over the Ghost tho.

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i think thats in the gaff deck., I'm not sure

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Postby Rich Lehmann » Jul 28th, '06, 14:34

The printing problem still exists, I order a ghost deck and gaff deck last month and both suffer from this. On the bright side, I send ellusion asked that I only send one card from each (my choice, not the ace) so they could show to the retailer and the sent me a replacement deck of both (free of charge & shipping). If I had a scanner I could have simple sent them a scan. The replacements are much better and I still have the off center ones to cut up use where it's less noticeable.

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Postby BizKiTRoAcH » Aug 9th, '06, 16:43

Just ordered a deck of these from NUMS and got them through today. The quality of these cards are EXCELLENT. I've been trying to do a fan for weeks now and I can very rarely get a smooth/evenly spaced fan.. even with a brand spanking new deck of bikes. I opened the ghost deck, tried to do a fan and got it PERFECTLY on my first try. I love these cards! :D

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