Legends Deck, coming Jan 2013 from David Blaine and Bill Kalush

[Don Boyer]

Looks like the aurum deck is only a card thicker if thicker at all.

Also, did anyone mention that the reveal joker's smoke spells ruby? I may have missed that throughout the thread.

Yeah, we caught "ruby".

It's hard to judge cards by their thickness relative to another deck, particularly from USPC - the two stocks they offer now aren't a fixed thickness.  They state that there's a RANGE in which that stock's thickness may fluctuate.  It's not enough to notice from card to card in the same deck, and perhaps not even from deck to deck in a short print run.  But if you took two recent decks from different print runs, both using the same stock (either "Bicycle" or "Bee Casino"), it's entirely possible that they won't be the same thickness.  At one time the company was giving actual weights in grams per square meter (gsm) but they discontinued that practice last year for unknown reasons (my guess being difficulties maintaining consistent weights among the stocks they offer).

[Nurul]

Is there a chance that the clues will ever be revealed by Lawrence Sullivan?

[Don Boyer]

Is there a chance that the clues will ever be revealed by Lawrence Sullivan?

Sure - there's also a chance I could be kidnapped by gorgeous Vegas showgirls and milked dry by them in a week of wild debauchery.  I'm just not holding my breath waiting for either to happen... 

You could try asking, I suppose...

[Nurul]

I've already asked

[Nurul]

any update on th last clue? I never did get an answer back from Mr Sullivan lol

[hecrob]

Today i finally got my legends (the 8 pack that i ordered from Coterie 1902)

It was a huge letdown for me...

The package contained 2 of each colour and 2 coterie bees.

Well one of my red packages was opened, and used, even dirty... no cellophane to be found and no notice on the box about that so i dont know if it was a customs thing in HK or they just run out of red Legends and throw inside one of the used ones that they had lying around.

The other red deck (the one that came sealed) was damaged on one corner :/

Also the in the webpage it says that every order from coterie gets a really cool card separator for your books... my package didnt have one in it... so no bonus for me.

So im kind of dissapointed.

[Michael]

Today i finally got my legends (the 8 pack that i ordered from Coterie 1902)

It was a huge letdown for me...

The package contained 2 of each colour and 2 coterie bees.

Well one of my red packages was opened, and used, even dirty... no cellophane to be found and no notice on the box about that so i dont know if it was a customs thing in HK or they just run out of red Legends and throw inside one of the used ones that they had lying around.

The other red deck (the one that came sealed) was damaged on one corner :/

Also the in the webpage it says that every order from coterie gets a really cool card separator for your books... my package didnt have one in it... so no bonus for me.

So im kind of dissapointed.

I'm sure you could bring up every single one of those issues with Coterie. They would fix every single problem. But what about the non-damaged cards? Did you like them?

[hecrob]

I got 36 of them a full month before the ones from coterie arrived to my door...

The legends are unique, endure a lot of use and have a very different stock...

I really like them...

[Michael]

... Well.... I was just wondering....

And in my experience Coterie has been wonderful....

Too bad you had a bad experience though....

[Don Boyer]

Today i finally got my legends (the 8 pack that i ordered from Coterie 1902)

It was a huge letdown for me...

The package contained 2 of each colour and 2 coterie bees.

Well one of my red packages was opened, and used, even dirty... no cellophane to be found and no notice on the box about that so i dont know if it was a customs thing in HK or they just run out of red Legends and throw inside one of the used ones that they had lying around.

The other red deck (the one that came sealed) was damaged on one corner :/

Also the in the webpage it says that every order from coterie gets a really cool card separator for your books... my package didnt have one in it... so no bonus for me.

So im kind of dissapointed.

Use the contact email at Coterie1902.com and mention those issues - I'm certain they'd be eager to make things right for you.  I once had a miscut deck of white Gold Seal New Fan Backs and Zenneth swiftly sent me a replacement, no problem.

[twiscold]

Is anyone still looking for the Legends? I am selling a few sets, I love them but still prefer the cambric finish.

[Don Boyer]

Is anyone still looking for the Legends? I am selling a few sets, I love them but still prefer the cambric finish.

Perhaps this post would do better in the STISO?  Go make a topic.

[pookey]

I didn't see it mentioned here yet (I could well have missed it in the pages and pages of comments) - but I can't be the first to notice it has a one way face as well as a one way back.

[Michael]

I didn't see it mentioned here yet (I could well have missed it in the pages and pages of comments) - but I can't be the first to notice it has a one way face as well as a one way back.

if we had not mentioned yet that would've been interesting! Unfortunately we did and it's somewhere deep in this thread. The one way back is much more subtle than the faces which I personally think is amazing.

I'm wondering if there are plans for a second edition or not. If so, that'll be something to look forward to.

[pookey]

if we had not mentioned yet that would've been interesting! Unfortunately we did and it's somewhere deep in this thread. The one way back is much more subtle than the faces which I personally think is amazing.

I thought it must have been!  I love this deck - however the one way face is upsetting me

There's certain cards you can one way face anyway, and I feel the face is a bit too obvious.  With the face being so obvious, if it's spotted it will put the rest of the deck into doubt.   Just me?

[Michael]

if we had not mentioned yet that would've been interesting! Unfortunately we did and it's somewhere deep in this thread. The one way back is much more subtle than the faces which I personally think is amazing.

I thought it must have been!  I love this deck - however the one way face is upsetting me

There's certain cards you can one way face anyway, and I feel the face is a bit too obvious.  With the face being so obvious, if it's spotted it will put the rest of the deck into doubt.   Just me?

I'm not really a fan of the bolded don't either but I mean it's just cause I personally don't like it. It doesn't bother me on this deck much but it is noticeable.

And I figure if you are "transparent" enough with any of your routines and practice your sleights well enough, you might be able to avoid that problem. And I mean transparent as in you make certain things exaggerated to feign transparency (I hope you get why I'm tryin to say). I don't perform magic so I can't really give you any professional opinion.

[Don Boyer]

if we had not mentioned yet that would've been interesting! Unfortunately we did and it's somewhere deep in this thread. The one way back is much more subtle than the faces which I personally think is amazing.

I thought it must have been!  I love this deck - however the one way face is upsetting me

There's certain cards you can one way face anyway, and I feel the face is a bit too obvious.  With the face being so obvious, if it's spotted it will put the rest of the deck into doubt.   Just me?

First, Pookey - welcome to the Discourse.  You should make an Introduce Yourself topic and let the gang get to know you better.

That one-way face isn't terrible obvious.  Believe it or not, the concept was something David Blaine came up with and it's been used in some CARC decks as well.

Also interesting to note - when the faces are all oriented correctly, the backs of the aces have their one-way marks on the opposite side of the card from the rest of the pack.  It allows for quick recognition of the aces without having to resort to reading the entire marking system.

(If you didn't spot that system yet, it's detailed previously in this topic - worth reading!)