Phoenix Playing Cards: The Magician's Workhorse Deck
The idea behind Phoenix Playing Cards was to establish a new brand and design made especially for magicians. This isn't the 531st deck of fancy-looking cards that hits the magic community monthly and ends up on a collector's shelf. We're talking about a working horse for all magicians around the globe. A deck that looks nice and modern, but isn't fancy or suspicious. A deck with secret weapons built in that can be used but don't have to be, well hidden so no layman would ever find them! And if they did find them, they wouldn't think of them as a weapon!
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Key Features:
- Printed at US Playing Card Company: On Bicycle cardstock, with an air-cushion finish, so the cards have the well-known Bicycle quality.
- Casino Grade Quality: Going one important step further, all USPC decks from our Phoenix brand are produced at the highest quality level: Casino Grade. This is superior to any standard supermarket-quality Bicycle Deck.
- Perfect Shuffles from the Start: The decks are punched through the backs with freshly sharpened blades to allow perfect Faros and Riffle Shuffles right from the start; professional magicians know the difference.
- Optimized for Tamariz Stack: The new deck order is optimized for the Tamariz Stack, so you can immediately begin the necessary Faros to get into the stack.
- Identical Faces (with improvements): Phoenix faces and Bicycle faces are identical with a few exceptions.
- The Ace of Spades is very close to the Bicycle Ace of Spades.
- All other Aces are specially designed for better visibility. Fine details make them beautiful for close-up performances, and these fine details blur out at a distance, becoming invisible on stage.
- The commonly used (old) Aces were included in the deck during the first two printing runs to determine if our larger Aces or the old Aces were preferred! Feedback helped us completely move over to our larger Phoenix Aces, so we now provide two Jokers, a blank face card, and a special game card!
- Modern and Classy Back Design: Not too fancy to draw suspicion.
- Hidden Oneway Marking: The back design has a very visible but well-hidden oneway marking.
- Designed for Gaffed Cards: The backs were specially designed to hide additional information in the gaffed cards.
- Traditional Card Case: The Phoenix card case uses the traditional layout of the Bicycle card case. There are NO tricks or information on the card case that would suggest the cards are optimized for magicians. This allows you to leave the cards on the table after your performance as a souvenir for your audience.
- Oneway Faces: The faces also have a well-hidden but very visible oneway marking, a unique feature of all Phoenix Decks.
- Growing Range of Trick Cards: A lot of trick cards are already available, like blank cards and double backers, marked decks, and trick sets, with the range constantly growing.
