Ask Alexander Playing Cards - Limited Edition
Conjuring Arts
Conjuring Arts Research Center
The Ask Alexander deck is printed on the finest casino paper and to the highest standards available at the United States Playing Card Company. During the course of Conjuring Arts Center efforts to make various custom playing card decks, they have made numerous trips to the USPCC's facilities in order to personally oversee the manufacture of their playing cards and to make any and all adjustments necessary to craft the perfect deck of cards. The cards are cut in the same fashion as their previous decks to facilitate smooth handling and effortless faro shuffles.You may notice a similarity to Bulldog Squeezers and Angel Back Squeezers. The bold one way back design of the Bulldog Squeezers combined with the elegance and nuance features of the Angel Back Squeezer deck make this a must have.
Reviews
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For $6 bucks you get . . . well . . . a deck of cards. There's more to it than that . . . sort of.
The texture of the cards is somewhere between a Hoyle and a Bicycle. I think Hoyle fans will be happy with the feel of the cards, but Bicycle fans may not. As the ad copy states, there are a lot of diabolical and cunning properties in the design.
However . . . I found them myself by examining the deck before I new that they existed. Once I found them, I couldn't make any meaning out of some of them. The deck did not come with a booklet or anything to explain what the design features were meant to do, so I'm not sure their purpose.
If you're a card collector, these are worthy of purchase. If you're looking for a unique and different design to use in your act, these might be for you. I liked them overall because there were intriguing to me and full of unsolved riddles . . . maybe that's the point.
Final Verdict:
3 Stars with a Stone Status of gem (little 'g').
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They handle well, they look like normal cards, and they farrow out of the box. I’ve been working with them for the last two weeks, and the wear and tear is minimal. Not much more I can say.
Overall, you get exactly what you pay for.
Four Stars