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Green Bicycles now available from

http://www.magicbox.uk.com/product.php/909/11817/

Note that these are NOT the same as the Tactical decks which are very dark green and virtually indistinguishable from black. The red pips are also standard colour - not the dark red used in the Tacticals.

So, who's going to be first to come up with a routine for changing a pack from red to blue to green to black to black tiger?

I see these are also available in bricks and a multicoloured brick is offered as well - three of each red, blue, black and green backed decks. Very technicolor!

Just to clarify, these cards are green backed but have normal black and red faces as per usual bikes. This leads to the thinking that cards can be switched as much as you like between red, blue and black backs - as long as the faces are showing, the backs can be changed by various means and then revealed as part of an effect. And on those lines, there are only about four months to go until St.Patrick's Day so how about the brain box cardies coming up with a routine especially to use the green backs in commemoration?

Clubs look quite like shamrocks, don't they?

Could be a version of 'NFW' perhaps? One by one, the cards turn face up, seach showing the Ace of Clubs.

"I know what you are thinking. Shamrocks are green and I told the leprechaun that. He smiled at me, winked and waved his shillelagh thend vanished. I was puzzled, as the cards looked the same to me. Then I turned them over."

I have an issue with funny coloured cards (any that are not blue or red), in that they potentially make spectators suspicion that the cards are not normal.

The only "good" use I can currently think of is one of the many chameleon deck effects.

For example you show that you are dealing with a normal red deck, and ask the spectator to select a random card and remember it, and lo and behold the whole deck turns green apart from their selected card. The trick goes on to a phase two, but that is the gist.

The st Patricks day thinking for this is nice, and it has that added shock value, as the deck didn't even turn from red to blue, it turned green for goodness sakes!

It is a lot though for an effect that can only be done on St Patricks day.

I guess you could introduce the red deck saying that it belonged to your grandfather who was irish and he swore blind that it was given to him by the wee leprechauns. At that point the deck has a reason to be in play and other "non green" effects could be done.

Maybe it belonged to a member of green peace?

Maybe their is an "envious" card effect?

Could be a version of 'NFW' perhaps?

Well, the title could be The Black Shamrock for starters!

you could introduce the red deck saying that it belonged to your grandfather who was Irish and he swore blind that it was given to him by the wee leprechauns.

And there's the opening line as well. Perhaps all this should be in the R&D Department?!

Magicbox have hinted that they are working on a Strangers Gallery type effect (using all four colours of backs) which may or may not be available soon.

you could do a 'card from nose'!

Could add a new twist to a Color Fusion routine, blue / black / red to green and I doubt it would be too difficult or take too long to think of a good number of stories to accompany this!

Could do a 'turning green with envy' routine

The thing about laymen thinking your green or black deck i gimmicked.. with the green cards that statement makes no sense because: Laymen know wich colours are normal on most.. and red, blue, green.. are normal for colours when handling cards from their point of view.... i don't understand it..


i will isolate myself in a world of uncoloured species called bokschels..

i bid you farewell..

I know this is a bit late but I noticed that one of the stalls in Blackpool were selling miniature bikes with green backs. It might have been International Magic or someone like that but I bought a deck anyway to go with my mini red and mini blue decks.