This is just lovely 🙂 so many options.

This is a novelty deck but designed for much use.

We can play all the Card Games (that use a standard 52 card deck) but with options for chess, draughts, backgammon, dice, dominoes and more (apparently).

They are also smaller than a poker deck and perfectly square. Makes sleights a lot easier but they are unusual so folk may be paying closer attention to the novelty.

We’ve been here before but this is a new deck.

Ah, I do have a favourite deck and it is these.

Opening a new deck is an event.

Not gonna lie, this card trick path I’m on is, well, tricky.

I did what I always do when an obsession grabs me. Before I let the dust settle and have a good think about things I’ve already spent… umm… money on books and gear.

I bought the classics. Royal Road to Card Magic, Fulves Self working card tricks, S. W Erdnase Expert at the Card Table etc.

These books are of their time. The contents priceless but the grammar and style are a bit dense.

Enter Giobbi.

Card College is brilliant. It starts off with how to hold a deck. Genuinely, you could have never seen a deck of cards – oh the HUMANITY – and be well on your way.

And some enterprising individual created a deck of cards based around the colour scheme and illustration style of book 1. There’s a set based on book 5 as well but https://magicshop.co.uk were out when I was looking

My advice, should you require such: Buy a half brick of Bicycle Rider Backs and Card College volume 1. You won’t need anything else. Maybe, MAYBE, a close up pad.