Hello Folks!
Today i recieved my 2 decks of the Bicycle Samurai Edition.
Handling :
The cards feel to me like standard Bicycle 808 Rider cards.
They do fan easily (thumb and pressure fans) and faro good.
Also for doing cuts (i´m not really a flourisher,but i do fancy false cuts) they do the job fine!
No problems here.
Springing the cards is okay as well.
Design of the cards :
As you have seen on the pictures/trailer the design theme is the Samurai.
The backs show a Samurai and a japanese/chinese symbol over the head of the Samurai.
I don´t know what this means,maybe someone who can read the symbol can translate it for us.
The borders on the back design are nice and detailed.
They said it has a subtle one way design but i haven´t been able to spot the difference so far.
No custom court cards,standard faces!
A bit of a let down,well at least i can use my double facers with them ;-)
The deck has 3 jokers which are designed to be Samurais.
2 of them looking to the right and the other 1 is looking to the right.
Interessting for the magicians here ;-)
The Ace of Spades is beautifull designed and has the words " SAMURAI" SECRET WEAOPN on it.
Underneath says it the U.S. Playing Card Company.
It also has the same chinese/japanese symbol above it.
And last but not least a blank faced card is also included!
The box it self has no reveal,which in my mind is not important at all.
On the flap it says SAMURAI FIRST EDITION.
The designer is Sam Hayles who has done other projects like the Karnival Decks.
I like the Dose and Dead Eyes decks (yeah throw rocks at me now!) for performing spooky/bizarre magic
and this deck is a more commercial design so to speak.
If i have to rate this deck i would give it 4 out of 5.
It handles well and is not overpowered in design.Its rather simple.
For the price tag of 6,95€ ( USD 9,55 ) i would say i would not buy plenty of them to perform my every day magic with them.
But they are def. a eye catcher!
I think i will get myself a brick of them after christmas.
The shipping from france to germany took 2 days and the packaging was secure.
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