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and we’re back. on a thursday. wonder when i’ll go on a spree with my card buying skills.

Name: Marlboro Texan
Date: 6.18.2009

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It’s a promotional item for Marlboro cigarettes I suppose. Not highly desired. Quite cheap on eBay at times, falling in the 4-6$ range for a set. Don’t smoke cigarettes. Smoking is bad for you.

Marlboro Texan : What an awesome deck carrying leatherlike casing.

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These were released quite sometime back. But now,,,sealed sets are still readily available on eBay. Funny how that works.

Marlboro Texan : Court cards are vintage.

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Nothing too exciting. No aircushion type dimple hole things here. You get thin cardboards with a ’vintage replica’ yellowing printing stain thing. The overall feeling of the deck is slippy. But not the typical accustomed typical new fresh of the box slippy. Probably last longer than a deck of bicycles though. I’ve bent some cards. And easily bent them back.

Marlboro Texan : Face Spread. Tiny Indices.

Faro: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○ ○ ○

Thin and light. I approve. Unfortunately the rest of the deck isn’t worth using for sleights and xcms moves and stuff.

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It be one way. See the five pointed star? No matter how you position a five pointed star, its one way. With silly rays coming from it at varying widths. If you do a spread, the rays looks like a shooting star….sort of. At least you only see the top star so that’s ok. Multi packet cuts…looks …. Supposedly good with stars dancing around in your hand. But. Theres no borders. But the full back matches the faces. Sort of. Sort of gets a 5/10.

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I’ve spent the last week cramming Mr. Lennart Green’s Top Shot. Mr. Lennart Green, why are you so awesome? We’ll get to that another time. With basically every deck at my disposal, This is by far the worst deck to use. Top shot. Is an application of thumb pressure, and whatever sliding friction is between the top two cards. In this case, the cards slide poorly for top shot. Its like,,,you pull one, you pull them all. But not saying that top shot won’t work. It’ll work. Just Poorly.

Comments

-Texans. Not Texan palmettos. These are Marlboros. Not Texan’s 45s which I have not acquired yet. These cards depict a ’lone’ star on the back. Wow. They come in red and blue. I wish all cards could come in red and blue at some point. Little details. Really small pips. Super wide court card pictures. Rusty vintage feel(visual) to the faces and backs. it’s a reproduction. They did well enough. it’s a promo. But its easily obtainable today. They come with poker rules, wrapped in wax paper. So, the ideal use would be to apply these for poker games. Poker sleights? No. No poker sleights for you due to the odd quality of these cards.

–Kudos ♪♫

Monday again. finally have other things to do during summer. like tutoring again. fun.

also reupdate ranking archives too.

Name: Bicycle 808 Ghost
Date: 6.15.2009

Bottom : Bicycle For more ghost gear, visit ellusionist.com

The U.S. Playing Card Co. Cincinnati, Ohio 45212

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Retails at 4.99$ a deck. Drops as low as low as 3.80something if you order at least a brick. Otherwise. You’re actually getting what you’re paying for, so its worth it.

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Ellusionist better keep it in stock if they know what’s good for them. I’m just holding out until they decide to have ghosts on sale.

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UV500AirFlowFinish. Uhm. Sure. Its just another name. but. Ellusionist seems to have done something right with this deck. That isn’t quite apparent in some of its other decks. Maybe it’s the very very lack of ink of the face as well as the back of the cards. Or the ’(insert approving adjective here)’ stock they used. Black, and traces of red. And shades of black. The deck itself holds nicely. Strong, but leaning slightly towards the thinner end of decks. Strong? But its also light…hm. Like a ghost? But ghosts are harmless. Btw the life of these decks is long. They fan after years. Even after they’re trashed left and right.

Faro: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ○
Ghostly. Light. Minimal Effort.

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Oh no . Its another 808 rider back. Ellusionist style. Remove as much color as possible. So its like. A black/white rider back . With these faded grey lines on the outer edges. Personally, those aren’t too good for card work. But, that’s the only ding it gets I guess. Maybe we should ding ellusionist more for spawning the color scheme of T-11 decks. Perhaps. But we haven’t gotten there yet either.

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Wouldn’t it be awesome if you had the $$$ to exclusively use only E decks. As well as all the gimmicked and gaff decks they have for each line. Each line? How about stick with one line. I’d go for ghost. Its clean. Er. Than all the others. Ah. I even got a gaff deck. But this was years ago. Is it true that beginners start at E? uhhh I started in books….

Comments

-Darn. I was trying to avoid corporate branded decks for as long as possible. But this was sitting next in line next to all those other bicycle 808s I have. Well, it was the last ghost deck I had lying around. I’ve already burned through a bunch of others over the … years… what…its really been years since I bought ghost decks…..?….or anything from E for that matter….back when their 12 deck bundle was 48$ ie cheaper than the 63 $ bundle they advertise today. scheming E when will you fix your corporate evil ways….ahem.
The ghost deck is simple enough for most ppl to like. Though beware of screams and yells of ’trick’ deck! And other things. Good for xcm and flourishes because they hold their own in use and weather and other things. … wow…this post hit page 2 in my word processor … uhh. If you buy decks from E, make sure its ghosts. I heard the other decks aren’t that great.

–Kudos ♪♫

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