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I'm liking the World Poker Tour USPCC ones at the moment, although i've no real idea why.
i'd love ghost decks the most if the red pips were actually Red!

although I'm going to have to go with the standard Bikes! but in Green of course!

standard bikes. although talley-ho's are nice, they don't make the gaffed decks in talley-ho format.

I enjoy the Robin Wood deck. I enjoy the energy in the art work and the cards speak to me. (except for the Empress, though - I started with the Rider Waite deck and the Empress in that deck is a lot more earthy)

tarot? oooh the grand esoterico...for both the back design (a nice one way back) - and i like the wierdness and oddness of the fronts...plus the cards are in spanish which is nice little bonus, makes it look a little more unusual...unless you're in spain of course...

I thought I'd mention Tarot because I don't do much with regular playing cards - and the stuff I do it really doesn't matter what brand of cards I use. If I have to choose it would be my old juice marked Bee deck (marked with juice - as well as a number of other stains)

how do you get juice from a bee?

I'm surprised no one has put out some gaffs for say the rider waite tarots by now...whether thats sacrilege to some i dont know...probably

i like the grandious artwork of the thoth deck too...and the spread...

You squish it!

I got my juice from ellusionist and then marked the deck with numbers - according to the Nicola memorised system. - works really well.

I've been working through some of the stuff with Tarot cards in Mind Myth and Magick, and Rick Maue's book of Haunted Magic - but I'm hesitant to do anything with a Tarot deck other than a reading. If I do I wouldn't use the same deck that I use for readings.

fedry wrote:As long as it is the standard size, i like to use it. Wad i think is that better practice using any kind of deck, so when your friends suddenly ask u to do tricks, you can perform better. Anyway, my favourite deck is Aladin brand deck. lol...bought it from a 24-hour shop.

Aladdins are very nice cards but the new stock doesnt have a proper finish unlike the old Aladdins with the air cushioned finish. I've heard that the old ones are great!

Anyways, I was in a newsagents and I saw a pack of cards so I decided to buy it. I felt that the design of the cards were very familiar. When I got home, I found out that they were replicas of Aladdins with a pathetic quality! The cards were very poor in quality. The only difference is that these replicas had dolphins in the centre of the design rather than the circle with flower.

Steve

stevebo wrote:Aladdins are very nice cards

Alladin Casino?

I most definitely prefer bicycle black tigers. they best part is that they are black light sensitive.

For doing magic, my favorite is the plain old rider back red bicycles

This is not because of handling or 'airflow finish' or their appearance or anything like that...

Bicycle is my favorite because:
A. It is VERY well recognized. EVERYONE knows what they look like and therefore, when you do any card trick with a gaff or without a gaff for that matter, people are MUCH less likely to be suspicious of any kind of "trick deck/card" or anything like that because they are used to seeing them. This is why i use all bicyles, all reds, all the time..so that no one thinks anything unusual and it also seems more casual/impromptu than planned.
B. Because they are SO common (in the USA at least i know they are)and available in many different different gaffs/tricks/gimmicks...etc You cant go buy a bunch of gaffed Bee decks/cards, lets say you use Alladins and like the cigarette through card trick. If all of the sudden you pull out a bicycle card and stick something through it without leaving a hole, it will look kinda weird! (To me, switching decks always looks bad and so I prefer to stick with the card brand that has the most gimmicks and stuff available in it so that im the least limited as possible. I can think of so many tricks i wouldnt be able to do anymore if i stopped using bikes...)
C. They are a good happy medium between price and quality. (i pay $12 for 12 packs yet they dont 'feel cheap' at all)
D. Also, they have a lot of normal deck variations to choose from, so you never get bored
E. They are just so....."classic" feeling~


Any other artists out there? cause
For playing cards, (i like something less traditional to keep it interesting), my favorite deck is the Key to the Kingdom enchanted deck. But its not so good for magic, though im sure someone with a really good imagination could probably come with up a very amusing story incorporating magic tricks using a story with this deck because there are some neat characters on it......
Is anyone familiar with this deck? If you like art or riddles, you may find it amusing. Here's the link anyhow just incase anyone's curious-


http://www.dxpo-playingcards.com/xpo/art/xpokey01.htm
Keep scanning to the bottom and click "more." Look at the entire deck before you judge it... I love it~ Look carefully at every individual card to see the various ways he integrated the pips into the art work.
(THE BEST PART- It's a deck of cards whimsically illustrated by Tony Meeuwissen. The deck comes with a book that goes along with it because every single card correspondes (illustrates) an old nursery rhyme or song or poem or saying or whatnot. It's called Key to the Kingdom because it was actually a contest when it first came out and if you found the key (solved the 'riddle') you won $10,000 USA!
To win you had to take an eighteen line verse and select 14 cards to decode the verses. Then you had to find a similar corresponding phrase. The tiebreaker was to construct an apt verse of 25 words or fewer, using the words spades, clubs, hearts and diamonds. Then you win 10,000 bucks!)

If anyone here can solve it without cheating, you are an absolute GENIOUS!!!! If you want to know the answers, or the corresponding poem to a certain card, feel free to ask =)[/b]

abraxus wrote:the tallys dont feel the same as vipers in my hands...

fourniers...by a country mile...best back-design...and more importantly, favoured by Lennart Green...

though i have gone back to bikes purely for convinience of late...

Certainly not Fourniers for me! Received some today with my cards4magic order and I'm sorely disappointed. Thin, plastic-y, the flesh tone on the court cards looks weird... sure, the back is quite pretty but that just doesn't make up for their other short fallings. Sorry Lennart.