It’s hard to believe that cards which feel this good are so unbelievably cheap. They also look great with the tiny, subtle design on the back - very, very elegant looking and they fan nicely. They have already passed the durability test as I have been cycling through the deck many hundreds of times while watching TV. Most of you know, I’m sure, that you can take a new deck, do eight out faros and you are back in new deck order. For those of you new to the faro shuffle, the successive perfect cuts are at the KC, AD, 7C, 4D, 9S, 5S, 3S and 2S. One huge key to learning the perfect shuffle is to use a very gentle pressure when interlacing the cards. Have patience and it will come. These cards make it a piece of cake.

The thing I like about them most, though, is that they faro well right out of the box. No break in is necessary, although it gets even easier the more you faro. And, if you want to make it ridiculously easy, check out Wesley James’s excellent suggestion for breaking in a deck so that it is effortless to faro - not that these decks necessarily need that, but his treatment makes it even easier.

I do several faro effects, such as LaDanye’s Ultimate Triumph (involves faroing with cards face to face and back to back, making it even more difficult than the normal faro), Paul Gertner’s Unshuffled, Martin Nash’s finale to his Magic Castle act, a faro location, etc. and when you do these types of effects, you can’t afford a slip-up of any kind. With these cards, and some practice, of course, you can put that worry behind you.

I’ve been doing card magic for 39 years and these are about the best looking and handling cards I’ve ever used - especially for this low, low price. And, you will get comments on how nice the cards look from your spectators. The designer(s?) of these cards hit it out of the park. Get several! You won’t regret it!