Magic Tricks

I surely appreciate the Antique back designs here, complete with Hobgoblins. With the colors, this just looked like a good Halloween style deck. Cards handle fine as Bicycles do. They produce interesting fans, depending on which side you start from. Faces are standard design with same palette as backs. Now, the Jokers...are devils. Unfortunately, not as well drafted as the card backs-something of a stylistic discrepency. The corner indices on the Jokers were hand drawn, and not very well in my opinion. The Ace of Spades has the word 'FIRE' on it's bottom, but in a type face more contemporary than the back designs-another stylistic contradiction. The card backs are worth looking at-but do not have white borders-something which can work to betray certain basic moves such as the double lift. While the backs are two way design, HOW they are colored actually makes them one way, a plus for certain effects. Overall, te deck looks cheap-and I attribute this to the brightness of the colors, and lack of white borders. I think the premise was good here, but not by any means as classy or consistent as other decks I've seen. It's fun, but the back designs I think deserved a better overall deck design.