Hello! My name is Arthur and I've been collecting playing cards since October 2013. My girlfriend was the one who started me on this hobby when she got me the White Ghost deck for my birthday in August. But I really got hooked in while I was looking for some Zombie decks to go along with a zombie RPG campaign my friends had put together. My search led me to Kickstarter, which introduced me to a plethora of custom playing cards. Since then, my wallet's gotten considerably smaller, while my collection's gotten a little bigger (I hope to post a collection picture in the collection thread soon...)

I've also started learning magic tricks since a month ago! Cardistry proved too difficult for my small hands (this is a common excuse but in my case, it is definitely true). I have played violin so my hands are dexterous than most, but a lot of the cuts (like the 1-handed shuffle & Conor O'Kane's Snowglobe) require too much palm-space for me.

I hope to learn lots about playing cards, the industry, magic, everything here! I've lurked around the forum a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that many of you are quite nice and friendly So it was high time that I've stopped being a lurker (for the most part). Here's to us getting along, denizens of Aethercards Thanks for reading.

Cheers,
Arthur