I took the family to the Houdini museum in Scranton last month and saw the first lady of magic, Dorothy Dietrich. While we were there I bought the kids a stripper deck. I'm debating wether or not to offer "stripper decks" of the unbranded version. Any opinion as to whether people would be interested or not?
Stripper decks, also known as Wizard decks, are fun to play with and are in the arsenals of most magicians, whether they'd care to admit it or not. But is this really a magician's deck? Could you imagine magicians using this deck in their performances and daily routines?
As a magician, I rarely use a limited-run, one-off design in my routines. I used to - until I wised up to how quickly performing can ruin a deck of cards. There's also the fact that most magicians, if they're performing for a general audience of unknown composition, will keep it basic and tend to use a deck with standard faces and that's easily and cheaply obtained. Unless you're David Blaine, of course, in which case you make your own cards whenever the mood strikes you and Mark Stutzman isn't busy and you use those for performing!
It's a significant expense getting decks factory-made as stripper decks. Plus, what about all the limited, numbered features of your design - will some of the decks be set aside just for use as stripper decks, or will these be "extra" decks not part of the standard production run? In your case, I think it's simpler to offer just standard, ungimmicked decks.
