Magic Tricks

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.