I like the short deck and am happiest that the rounded the corners of the cards so the cards do not
look like they were chopped off with a paper cutter.
The cards are only short from the
short ends. While it may have been cool to also have a deck of Bicycle cards which were short on
both the long and short sides of the cards. (ie. just a slightly smaller deck all around). But,
that is OK, it was just advertised as a short deck and lust having short cards along the narrow
edges of the cards is OK.
I recommend the deck and it saved me a lot of time cutting my own
cards :-)