i thought that was a new gaff since you mention 11 of diamond .. how did you make the 11 of diamond ?
Well, it is foretold that on a full moon if you strike 7 incense burners, positioned in the formation of the ancient Djin Bel Ma'Shuma Taag and recite the alphabet backwards, a standard 10 of diamonds (positioned in the centre of the formation, floating in rat's milk) will be transformed into the fabled 11 of diamonds.
Or, I guess you could just use a red pen...
Dude, you keep that up, you're gonna make me wet my pants... It won't be pretty...
well my thing is depending on who you would talk to something could be rare or maybe not, to the people in my town, an orange deck is rare.
Perhaps - it's really more like "uncommon". They're never seen one before, but they're out there. To a New Yorker, a cow pie is "rare"; to a dairy farmer, they're about as common as dirt! Now, if it was an orange Rider Back deck printed in 1902 with the box still sealed by the original tax stamp, as part of a custom order for the King of Monaco, THAT would be RARE; practically one-of-a-kind, even. (Such a deck doesn't exist, but I think you see what I'm getting at here.)
i thought that was a new gaff since you mention 11 of diamond .. how did you make the 11 of diamond ?
Split a random diamond card, cut out one of the diamonds and glue it in the middle of a 10? 
If you cut it out carefully and make sure to position in perfectly, it should look pretty natural. As for the number, you can erase the 0 and experiment with a sharpie and a straight edge like a piece of paper. Though I'm not there yet for lack of the legendary 90% alcohol that my local drugstores seem to lack... And I found that an eraser causes the finish of the card to disappear with the ink.
Some do erasures and redraw pips or numbers, others simply do more cutting and pasting. Diamonds are popular for this type of gaff because of the relative ease with which you can use a razor-edged knife to slice the straight edges of a diamond as opposed to the various rounded shapes of the other suits.
If I were to do this, I'd do the following, if using a standard deck design:
First, split a 10 of diamonds face layer from the back layer.
Next, split a ten of hearts, and a nine of diamonds (or a three, a five, a seven - any one with a reasonably isolated diamond pip on it somewhere). If you wanted to save cards and don't care about "burning" another deck, a 10D from another deck would do fine for both.
Slice out of the 10D face the zeroes in the indices and a diamond shape in the center of the card. Replace the zeroes with ones from the spare ten's indices, replace the blank shape with a diamond from a spare card. Glue it all back to an intact card back, apply pressure when you know there's no excess glue on the face (plus a dusting of fanning powder in case you missed something) and voila - homemade gaff card.
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