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Is this at all like Knock 'em Dead? Seems like the same effect...

I agree the presentation is poor from "pengiun - (let's try and make a quick buck out of anything possible) - magic".

In terms of the arguments for and against using gimmicked decks. I think it totally depends on the situation in its own right.

Personally i try and learn tricks that can be used with a borrowed deck at any time. If you are performing somewhere you frequent often, for social or professional reasons, i will tend to avoid gimmicked decks all together. There is nothing worse than someone knowing your a magician and passing you a deck and saying, "do that trick where u ..." - unless you want to carry gimmicked decks around with you all the time that is.

The situation has happened once or twice, what i normally do is take the deck and just do any other trick that springs to mind, this normally works and they forget what they asked for. I can only perceive problems when your tricks with a borrowed deck are substantially worse than those with the gimmick. - but that's the problem of gimmicked decks again i suppose.