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Absolut Deck

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Its Monday, post earlier, since I’m gone during the evening. I find that the average post takes me about half an hour. Not bad for a time commitment of sorts.

Name: Absolut Deck
Date: 5.25.2009

Cost: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
At the time of this post, Ebay is your only bet. Average cost of these decks is usually sitting in the 10$ range. I was able to get 5$ a deck on ebay…but that’s just me. They used to be cheaper. Supposedly. They probably won’t stay cheap though. Production stopped a few years back and such.

Absolut : Aos, Joker, Court Cards, Ad Card
Absolut : Aos, Joker, Court Cards, Ad Card

-The Court Cards; they be holding drinks. Difference betweens suits is the pips on their outfits. The Joker’s all out. AoS Is a little on the bold side. Ad Card is a nice addition for ad/collectible purposes.

Absolut : Pips have drink recipes on them.
Absolut : Pips have drink recipes on them.

Availability: ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Ebay again. And diminishing supply.

Absolut : Absolut Hold Recipe
Absolut : Absolut Hold Recipe

Life/Finish: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○
The finish. Its PLASTIC. Plastic means it basically lasts forever. Unless you’re willingly crimping them. Don’t do it. After a month of use, dropping it on a table, the deck still lands full flat. No odd bends to them. Pretty good if you want to have something to use forever. Pretty bad if you want to do fans and spreads. Pretty good if you want to do cuts and XCM. Pretty bad if you want a non plastic deck. On a side note, the box is kinda unstable. Like the lid. Don’t do box flips. The cards come flying out.

Faro: ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
They’re PLASTIC. Plastic is bad.

Back Design: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○

Absolut : Back + AoS
Absolut : Back + AoS

Blue and silver in a white border. Vodka bottle in the middle. Uhm. That vodka bottle in the middle makes it one way. So do all the clubs and spades running north to south. But that’s not why you’re using them of course. Pretty. I told my friends there were hearts on the back
They didn’t see them behind the vodka bottle. .. .. .. Still. Kudos to Absolut for a good advertising product.

Center Double: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○

Absolut : Easy does it.
Absolut : Easy does it.

Plastics cards are super thin. In addition they ‘stick’ to each other. Doubles don’t get any easier then this. Well, at least the center double I use.

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Absolut : Spread
Absolut : Spread

-Absolut Vodka. I wouldn’t drink these cards, since… I don’t drink. But they have drink recpies on them. 10 of them. Repeated on all four suits. Not that you would use this deck for drinking games or anything. Plasticky. Good for XCM, unless you count fans and spreads as XCM. Rarara…uhhh I personally like them. I don’t need more though since they last.

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Offason Anglo

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Its Saturday, and I don’t have anything better to do. At night. Lets continue.

Name: Offason Anglo “Rug”

Date: 5.23.2009

Cost: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

Buying direct from el-duco or Glyckaren(spelling off the top of my head) means 6$ a deck. That’s quite pricey already. Add 12$ shipping to any order from Sweden, and hopefully you’re buying more than one deck. I bought 17, and sold some back on ebay, so that saved me some. 6$ a deck?!?!? Is it worth it. Well. They’re cards…from Sweden. Different stock, different feel. Its…ok…not the best…, but for magics, I’ll probably pick up some more in the future.

Offason Anglo : Red Back, 7 pip, White back
Offason Anglo : Red Back, 7 pip, White back
Offason Anglo : KoS, Joker (color), Ace of Hearts w/ Anglo Logo
Offason Anglo : KoS, Joker (color), Ace of Hearts w/ Anglo Logo

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You can order online and stuff. But sometimes they’re out of stock, and you have to wait. But , currently still quite available.

Life/Finish: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○

Offason Anglo : Giant fan from box.
Offason Anglo : Giant fan from box.

These ‘die’ too quickly in my opinion. They stop fanning perfectly after half an hour. This one deck I have open doesn’t fan or spread anymore. But that’s probably because I was doing ‘vertigo’ with them, and card to mouth, and other random things like crimping them and stuff. Embossed finish…uhm,,,I guess thats a good description. The cards,,,they feel….embossed… Once again, stronger than a bicycle card. Obviously. 6$ a deck has to get you somewhere.

Faro: ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

The way they’re cut. Makes. Faro. Very not-intuitive.

Back Design: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥  ○ ○ ○ ○

Rug decks come in six colors. All of them being splashed with traces of gold, except for the gold back which is splashed with black. Unforunately sports thinner than usual borders. Probably should go for the white one, which has no borders. Otherwise, decent.

360 Deck Flip: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○

(No Picture for obvious difficult reasons)

(okay, maybe one for laughs)

Offason Anglo : Deck Flip-You're doing it wrong.
Offason Anglo : Deck Flip-You're doing it wrong.

I need to get either a third hand or a better camera.

So, because it doesn’t fan, that means the cards hold together much much better. You can probably pull of 360 x 4 and higher. I know I can 😛 Other enjoyable thing is that I can get deck flips to spit out a single card at will. Maybe I’ll put that up later.

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Offason Anglo : The Red, White and Blue
Offason Anglo : The Red, White and Blue

-Offason Anglo Rug! They put their logo on the Ace of Hearts! Awesome! Don’t particularly like how all the pips and face cards are in some beige outlined box thing. Jokers are….boring and bordering on disturbingly creepy. Back borders could use…expanding. Which did happen for the ’09 poker edition, which I want to pick up, but won’t do so until laterrrrrrr. Good deck for magic and sleights. Not too good deck if you want to fan and armspread and other things.