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And on the topic of bottom deals, if you know a stack you should check out Duplicity in Pit Hartling's In Order to Amaze. It's my favorite trick with a bottom deal.

Ok, I was just referring to the Bee No. 92 Diamond Back Club Special cards. To my knowledge and belief those are indeed all traditionally cut, but don't believe everything you read on the internet.

All Bees are traditional cut and are what I am using the most at this point because I also like the borderless backs for bottom deals. For the last several years all of the Bicycles I've gotten have been traditional cut as well, but this didn't used to be the case. I use the traditional cut...

I also found the Stevens cull on page 13 of Down Under Deals by Andrew Wimhurst.

The Stevens Control is what Vernon discusses on page 44 of More Inner Secrets of Card magic. I was able to buy the PDF from Lybrary.com for $12. This is based on the same technique as the Stevens Cull though I'm unsure what the differences are. Also see Stevens Riffle Control in The Classic...

Wouldn't a traditionally cut T11 deck be amazing? Perhaps in Medallion back. If any T11 are traditionally cut and I missed it please let me know, but I'd like to request we get some traditional cut love.

I think that would be about my answer too. You probably want to throw in something about engagement and entertainment, but that's a good basic description to me. It sounds like you should be reading Strong Magic by Darwin Ortiz. It is an entire and excellent book on this exact topic, though...

I save them all so that some day I can make a whole bunch of worn out one way force decks. The thing is I tend to rotate what type of deck I'm using based on my needs, so I just have a awful lot of old decks.

Yeah I actually had that included in my list but deleted it due to the clothing requirement. It is beautiful.

I see estimation is also covered in Card College Volume 4. I haven't actually gotten to volume 4 yet, so I can still only actually recommend Marlo here.

Do setup tricks at the beginning. Do tricks that only mess up half the deck. Put deck in pocket and say, oh do you want to see another. Ask someone to shuffle the deck. While the do that you do a trick with other deck. Ideal if you find someone who shuffles slowly. Setup messed up deck...

2015, I was looking to get back into card magic and needed cards! At the time Theory 11 had not only interesting new card designs to check out but also the best discounts on bricks, not to mention some awesome Jason England videos. No more brick discounts to be found, but years later I'm still...

Jeff McBride's The Art of Card Manipulation series of videos is probably the best of the available options.

This is an Any Card at Any Number (ACAAN). My favorite version is Asi Wind's AACAAN which you can get from Vanishing Inc. This is essentially the version David Blaine performs though different performances will not all look the same.

Expert Card Technique

1, Invisible Transit (impromptu) 2. Pit Hartling's Duplicity (setup) 3. Out of This World (setup) 4. AACAAN (setup) 5. Twisting the Aces (reasonably impromptu/minimally setup) 6. McDonald's Aces (gimmicked) 7. Invisible Deck (gimmicked) 8. Color Monte (Depending on you perspective this could be...

There are a couple of chapters on estimating the number of cards without a stack in Ed Marlo's Revolutionary Card Technique.

In his At the Table lecture he suggests browsing the fabric store, that's how he found his. You should be able to get an idea of how his is textured from the video, or he discusses it in the lecture.

Wouldn't be surprised. Once you get over 13 oz. then First Class Mail automatically becomes Priority Mail and is quite a bit more expensive. It's just a Postal Service thing.

Yes, you should learn to shuffle fair as well as false but learning the false shuffles should help your standard shuffles. So I wouldn't worry too much about learning standard shuffles first unless you are having particular difficulty with the false shuffles. What false shuffles are you looking at?