I got one of these $11 "Chic Decks" from Penguin. From what I can tell, they were made by a Chinese magic company had them mass produced from USPCC at some point and it is basically the only standard Bicycle Gaff deck that anyone still has left for sale. It comes with a barely readable sticker that has a code to get an eleven minute video by a guy with a thick Chinese accent. None of them have altered backs. I don't know when they were printed, but maybe Bicycle is allowing this deck, because they only have altered faces and no altered backs.
You get 52 gaff cards, three of which appealed to me. One King of Spades with a five of hearts impaled on his sword. A card with lips on it, and a card with a cat's paw on it.
The past three weeks, I've used the impaled card reveal and the card with lips on friends at local bars. I always say "You want to see a comical joke card trick." The forces and sleights I'm using are very basic stuff. But the reactions I get keep exceeding what I expect.
I guess because the average person has never seen cards like this before.
I wish I could get an entire deck of the King of Spades with different cards impaled on the swords. That is definitely the coolest card in the deck. Five of the cards are a set of Zener symbols, those old school psychic powers tests (seen in the beginning of the Ghostbusters movie). There is probably something cool that could be done with that.
You get 52 gaff cards, three of which appealed to me. One King of Spades with a five of hearts impaled on his sword. A card with lips on it, and a card with a cat's paw on it.
The past three weeks, I've used the impaled card reveal and the card with lips on friends at local bars. I always say "You want to see a comical joke card trick." The forces and sleights I'm using are very basic stuff. But the reactions I get keep exceeding what I expect.
I guess because the average person has never seen cards like this before.
I wish I could get an entire deck of the King of Spades with different cards impaled on the swords. That is definitely the coolest card in the deck. Five of the cards are a set of Zener symbols, those old school psychic powers tests (seen in the beginning of the Ghostbusters movie). There is probably something cool that could be done with that.