Thanks for the warning. Fortunately, didn't buy yet. I too have handled a couple cartamundi decks only to want to burn them. Granted, all I have held are the rite-aid brand cards (aka the reason I prefer to go to Walgreen's whenever possible). His prices on anglos and archdukes look good though. That is, assuming he isn't a douchebag about his sales techniques... If he tries that on me, he's going to regret it. 

Ah, my bad. Atlantis. And it's being sold on dealing devils dealing deuces as are the archdukes and anglos.
Also picking up some V1 Arrco Tahoes from them. Expensive, but what the hell. I just got a killer new job and this can be a reward to myself.

I recently found a deck known as the Atlantic playing cards. They appear to be a vintage deck and for what the seller wants, they had better handle pretty well. Don, now would be an excellent time to prove to us all why you're the supreme authority on cards...
(as an unrelated side-note, I'm also looking into some archduke eagle backs and some Offason Anglos. Anyone have any experience in this regard? I'm looking for handling features here).

So it's homecoming week at my highschool and I HATE homecoming/prom. There is a girl who hates school dances as much as I do, and since we were going to have an anti-homecoming last year that fell through at the last second, I still make fun of her for being a flake as a result. Anyway, today I was playing with my new carbon copies in AP Music Theory since Isaac had just barely brought them to me. She took interest and asked to see the deck. After I gave her a brief explanation of Dan and Dave and the world of cards, she asked if I knew any good tricks. So I used some basic distractions and false cuts for a typical "is this your card?" trick and pulled it off nicely. Later that day during lunch I bought two decks of blue bicycles. I took the ace of hearts out of one of the decks and wrote "Anti-Homecoming...Again?" on it before placing it on the top of the other deck's ace of hearts. I managed to catch her right before she left school and told her I had just learned a new card trick and needed her opinion. So I pulled a basic card force which made her choose the blank ace of hearts out of the deck and when she had memorized it, I had her place it right on top of the other (marked) ace of hearts, which was on top of the deck. I farro'd the cards into a pretty decent looking grate fan as a distraction and then once I had riffled that back into a deck (which most people confuse for shuffling) I brought it into a butterfly cut and when that was over I used a double-lift off the top of the deck so that the ace of hearts with the message on it was revealed out of the deck and asked "Is this your card?" to which i received the reply "Yes". Just a little tale to keep in mind should other magicians and cardists on this forum look to get creative.

Welp, that's two forum posting fuck ups in one day. Guess that's what happens when your computer breaks and you are offline for a good two weeks.

Just bought the two deck set of the platinum edition seasons, very happy with my purchase, phenomenal decks. I also Just ordered a Mana deck V1 Oracle Edition. Pretty happy just for the collector's value, but have yet to receive it in the mail. Should take some time, so that leaves just enough space to see these cards of very similar origins and marketing duke it out! Cast your votes now!

And I really hope CX decides to do something awesome with the court cards, like how they omitted the mouths on the Babel deck.

Wish your parents had done the same thing with you some days...

Nice. I rather like it.

Guys, I think we're all forgetting the true bane of shipping.

The heavy package/express mail customs form.

Yeah, Ew.

teehee I also saw Judas Priest on their farewell tour.

Hey, hey, hey hey Isaac... guess who saw RUSH live a couple months ago ha ha ha.

Wow, all I can say is YES PLEASE. Also, they are releasing a totally new deck called the Utopia soon. Probably old news, but I had yet to notice such a detail.

That's really tough. Progressive rock is my favorite genre so I could be up shit creek on this one.