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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => Topic started by: Fallen_Angel_of_Luck on December 25, 2011, 08:26:14 AM
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hey guys heres just a few photos of some weird decks ive never seen before whether u guys have or have not please comment if u know anything about them and price
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The first one is bicycle big gun deck.
The second and third are Merz's decks. - Don't buy it
I;m not sure about the 4th one.
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The fourth is either a Merz deck or a promotional deck a magician made. Either way it's terrible. The first deck, the original Big Gun decks, are quite rare and excellent.
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The first are the Big Gun decks. If I'm not mistaken, they're a USPC reprint of some decks they brought out at the end of World War One, I believe. They're quite a nice little set, and were only quite recently released; some time in 2011. I've also heard that only 2,500 of each colour were printed, although I'm not sure how true that is.
The second and third are the Gold Trace and Red Trace decks, respectively. They're designed by Merz67, and are commonly referred to as 'clip art' decks - decks that have taken hardly any time to design, and just use basic clip art images instead of unique, new images when it comes to the deck box, the Jokers and the ace of spades. This is shown by the fact that the Gold Trace deck box shows the cube with spade pips on the side; a piece of clip art.
The last deck is the Bicycle Smiling Back. It was designed by a magician called Meir Yedid, and is a gaff deck, or 'trick' deck. All the cards have smiling faces on the back, except for an extra four cards, which show a 'dead' face, with a bullet hole in his forehead that goes right through the card. The idea of the deck is that you force a card on a spectator, then cut the deck or what have you, and then pretend to shoot the deck. You then fan out the cards, and see one 'dead' face. You show the card, and it is the spectator's card. All the faces are regular Bicycle faces.
If anyone has seen any mistakes here, please don't hesitate to correct me. :)
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You can read the Smiling Back thread on UC here:
http://www.unitedcardists.net/uc/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5009&p=50943&hilit=smiling#p50943 (http://www.unitedcardists.net/uc/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5009&p=50943&hilit=smiling#p50943)
You can read the Big Guns thread on UC here:
http://www.unitedcardists.net/uc/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3517&hilit=big (http://www.unitedcardists.net/uc/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3517&hilit=big)
You can read the Red Trace thread here on Aether:
http://aethercards.com/discourse/index.php?topic=201.0 (http://www.unitedcardists.net/uc/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5018&p=51019&hilit=gold+trace#p51019)
and the rest of the Trace decks here
http://aethercards.com/discourse/index.php?topic=346.0
or here:
http://www.unitedcardists.net/uc/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5022&p=51061&hilit=gold+trace#p51061 (http://www.unitedcardists.net/uc/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5022&p=51061&hilit=gold+trace#p51061)
CBJ
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You might as well put all of the Trace decks up in the first post as well. Oh, and don't forget the American decks!
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You can get the Big Guns decks at www.shopbicyclecards.com (http://www.shopbicyclecards.com). As someone on UC mentioned, they have lowered the price to $14.99 a set and they offer free shipping in the US.
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You can get the Big Guns decks at www.shopbicyclecards.com (http://www.shopbicyclecards.com). As someone on UC mentioned, they have lowered the price to $14.99 a set and they offer free shipping in the US.
Good eye, dude - I went and picked them up. I was SHOCKED when I first saw these selling for $50 a pair. At $15 a pair, they're a LOT more reasonably priced. I'm guessing the high price induced sticker shock in a lot of potential customers and scared them off, meaning the chances of this being a series that reaches its completion aren't great. Who remembers the Vintage Series (only 6 of 12 designs issued), or the Limited Edition series (only 2 of 10 designs issued)?