a little muted, but still nice and they can't be confused with Bicycles of any other color. the
included gaffs aren't as versatile as those included with other non-standard color back Bicycle
decks (and too gimmicky for my tastes), but i guess that means this deck offers you something
different, which is also nice. great price, too.
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Can't go wrong with a bike deck. The metallic silver on the back is nice, too. Other than that,
identical jokers are always useful, and comes with 2 gaffs cards, too. Can't find this deck at a
better price anywhere else
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Nice cards. My deck came with a gaff card 10 of spades with a 6 of diamonds printed over it. Any
ideas on the use of that card would be appreciated.
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Absolutely love this deck
These are a great color, which will go beautifully with turquoise or other colors for multi-color
tricks (or just be pretty to play poker with). The gaffs were surprising because the product photo
shows a red card, white, and silver in front of the spread, implying a red/silver double backer, a
silver-backed blank facer and a silver double backer, perhaps, which would obviously be useful for
basic magic. What arrived instead was the deck with two identical jokers (always nice) plus an
overprint (6D on 10S --I left a comment under another review with an easy trick for this card) and a
QH which fades to white (with obvious applications for a spun card change, or even a ghostly
alteration of a normal QH during a dimmmed-lights Halloween night magic session, with a vampire
draining various cards to white, and draining her halfway. I am a tad disappointed that none of the
expected (and pictured!) gaffs were included. It would have been better if they'd added these odd
ones rather than swapping the other three for these. If you're just a card player, none of this
matters. If you do magic, whether the unusual gaffs and lack of the 'normal' three are a plus or
minus depend on you and your tastes. I think both gaffs will be fun, and easy to invent a simple
trick with. If you really dislike these two, you could very easily split them to craft one silver
double-backer, or convert them to a silver with a 2nd back color, and/or a silver-back white-facer;
you can get good instruction from e.g. Blake Vogt on how to do this. At $3.40 these are so cheap
that if you really want the pictured gaffs you could also order a 2nd deck and pick up some Bicycles
with one or both sides blank then split and rejoin a couple of them, giving you plenty of spares for
gaffing, duplicates for tricks, and even flap (acro) cards; see e.g. instruction from Hondo Chen and
Blake Vogt for very different methods on the latter.
I liked a lot, and the extra cards were really cool