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Playing Card Plethora / What happened to Cardazine?

« on: October 03, 2017, 10:54:52 PM »

I am new to card collecting. At first I was happy just pinning awesome art from decks I came across, but that has quickly devolved into frenzied acquisitions of amazing decks. The very first deck that made me say, "I must make this mine!!" was the EXPLORE deck by Cardazine. I was happy to find it on ebay for $5 (thank you pokerstud52) as well as the Seasons Pass deck, also $5- his second deck produced. I just wanted to get more history on these cards. I tried reaching out on facebook (since the KS account was deleted). I have seen these decks in other people's collections, so I know there are more out there, but $5 seems super cheap for cards of this quality- was there an issue with production?

I love the art of both decks!
thanks for any info!

Introduce Yourself / New to collecting

« on: September 14, 2017, 09:19:37 PM »

Hiya!
I'm Leigh, online people call me Chobee. In real life I am a fitness instructor in the Bay Area. I stumbled into card collecting 6 months ago when I went on Amazon to try and find some interesting decks of cards for my family's Nerts games (multi deck game). I was blown away by the number and beauty of all the quality decks being produced today. I've always preferred the feel of Bicycle decks to other cheapie decks when playing cards- I was just never privy to the variety! I shortly after discovered the premium market, as well as Kickstarter. I started devouring deck review videos, as well as magic/cardistry videos. I'm hooked!

My favorite decks so far are the Legacy's Knowledge Deck, Blue Luxx, Theory 11 Union deck, and Dan and Dave's Sons of Liberty.

Edited to add: Ha! I must really like birds- I just realized that three of those decks feature birds on the backs!

The Conversation Parlor / Is this common practice?

« on: September 14, 2017, 09:02:15 PM »

I was thrilled to find at my local Walgreens, the Collectable Playing Cards "Aurora" deck. I've always admired this deck, because of the metallic ink used. When I opened my deck I was hugely disappointed with the quality of the printing, and the complete lack of metallic ink on any of the cards. The cards still handle pretty well, but they are not at all what I expected. The tuck case is identical, from what I can tell, to the ones I saw in online reviews.

So, I guess I asking, should I have expected this, since I got it at a mass market retailer? Is it possible it's a counterfeit (seems unlikely)?

Thanks!!

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