Even though all of this factual information was brought to light, Richard was already too far into marketing his term to disrespect De’vo. He ignored the fact that the term “Cardistry” was already a published and well known copyrighted term in magic. De’vo and the term XCM was used heavily on one of the most popular magic sites in the world – Ellusionist.com owned by Brad Christian which De’vo had many exclusive contracts with. A kid by the name of Jonathan Bayme was promoted to president of the company who at the time allegedly had a relationship with owner Brad Christian. Eventually there was a huge dispute which made Jonathan leave to form a rival company called Theory11.com. Theory11 and its founder Jonathan Bayme also ignored the truth about the true meaning of the term Cardistry.
Theory11’s Jonathan Bayme took many of Ellusionist’s artists with him to take them down and since De’vo was an exclusive artist at Ellusionist, he became a target as well. Jonathon got in contact with people that were against De’vo and they worked a deal with Decknique’s owner Richard who sold all of his flourish videos to Theory11. Upon signing the contract, Richard and Jonathan formed an agreement where they would only use the term “Cardistry” to describe the flourishes in the videos. They did this to combat the “flourish” section of Ellusionist which was held down by De’vo vom Schattenreich. Many of Decknique.net’s members were furious that all their copyrighted videos got sold to Theory11 and that they were using the term “Cardistry” instead of the actual art form name – Xtreme Card Manipulation. De’vo tried his best to get in contact with Jonathan multiple times but Jonathan never replied back to De’vo on this matter.
. just grab a deck everyone and flourish with it. 
