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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #25 on: February 09, 2013, 08:50:39 AM »
 

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I can tell that the deck on the left is a reproduction, but I don't think it was a D&D repro.

I think you're right, if memory serves, their repro had each deck wrapped in silver foil? I got my repros (also a black and a green deck) on eBay. Wow Don once again, you are a verifiable cornucopia of information. Can you come over and go through my decks and tell me something about all of them? Ha ha.
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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #26 on: February 09, 2013, 01:40:59 PM »
 

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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #27 on: February 09, 2013, 11:51:48 PM »
 

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I can tell that the deck on the left is a reproduction, but I don't think it was a D&D repro.

I think you're right, if memory serves, their repro had each deck wrapped in silver foil? I got my repros (also a black and a green deck) on eBay. Wow Don once again, you are a verifiable cornucopia of information. Can you come over and go through my decks and tell me something about all of them? Ha ha.

The foil-wrapped decks came from Dealing Deuces.  He used it as a way to jack up the prices on his decks artificially.  His reputation took a serious hit when he tried selling "rare" Ace Fulton's decks that were foil-wrapped and had the deck logo on the foil.  D&D denied making any such version of the deck and people put two and two together and realized Dealing Deuces was trying to rip them off, using the bogus foil wrap as an excuse to jack up the price.  Most if not all of the prices at dealingdeuces.com are overinflated.  He was in here for a while as a contributing member until the Ace Fulton's fiasco, then he stopped posting altogether.
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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #28 on: February 10, 2013, 09:57:29 PM »
 

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Thanks again! Hey, why is this the dot com called "aethercards " but this forum is called "The Discourse?" There has to be a story there. And I have seen a few mods, but who RUNS/OWNS this site?
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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2013, 01:23:37 AM »
 

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Thanks again! Hey, why is this the dot com called "aethercards " but this forum is called "The Discourse?" There has to be a story there. And I have seen a few mods, but who RUNS/OWNS this site?

The board started off as a promotional vehicle for AetherCards, a now semi-defunct playing card company.  They released one design, the Vortex deck.  "Alex." owns AetherCards, this board and designed the Vortex deck.

Alex had a lot of headaches getting his deck made and distributed - so much that he dropped out of designing new decks altogether.  So this board remain his primary ongoing concern.  He's trying to separate the Discourse from AetherCards and has been considering creating a new domain for it without the AetherCards name.
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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #30 on: February 16, 2013, 01:59:48 PM »
 

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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #31 on: February 16, 2013, 06:43:52 PM »
 

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Very nice.  Try the photo with the flash turned off next time - you might get better results.

Let us know what you think of them once you've broken them in!
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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #32 on: February 17, 2013, 08:41:09 AM »
 

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Try the photo with the flash turned off next time - you might get better results.

no flash that's all sun glare. You can call me J J Abrams. 'Sides you guys know what these decks look like

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« Reply #33 on: February 17, 2013, 08:37:05 PM »
 

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Well, I was born in 1968, so I am pretty sure that I didn't buy a deck of cards when I was 10. (jk)

Funny you should say that, David. I was born in 1958, and bought the first deck in what would later become my collection/addiction/obsession (2,200 decks and growing) in 1968, when I was ten years old!

I still have it, too!

Welcome to the forums, by the way and...is a "cardician" the same as a "cardist"?

I am neither, being merely a collector.

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Re: Mojo Turbo from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #34 on: February 17, 2013, 11:00:54 PM »
 

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Welcome to the forums, by the way and...is a "cardician" the same as a "cardist"?

I am neither, being merely a collector.

-RSL

A cardician is a magician whose speciality is card magic.  A cardist is an artist who performs magician-style card flourishes as a separate art form from magic - they're also known as card flourishers and "extreme card manipulators", or "XCMers".  That latter term is usually used only by De'vo vom Schattenreich and his fans/students.
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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #35 on: February 18, 2013, 08:32:00 AM »
 

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Dan is once again UBER correct. As a magician I focus on cards (I can do kids party stuff) but for instance... I do not do coin magic AT ALL. Nor do I do little packet things that "look" like they came from a magic store.

For instance



These are ALL tricks decks and or magic tricks, I carry a red Bike deck for effects - that's my shtick. The 2 blue ones are strictly color changing deck routines
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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #36 on: February 18, 2013, 06:04:22 PM »
 

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no flash that's all sun glare. You can call me J J Abrams. 'Sides you guys know what these decks look like

Speaking of Abrams...



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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #37 on: February 18, 2013, 06:57:21 PM »
 

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Dan is once again UBER correct.

I just wish people would stop calling me "Dan"...  It's DON BOYER.  French last name - I don't pronounce the "R".  :))
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Re: David Kenney from Texas / California / and Regions beyond
« Reply #38 on: February 18, 2013, 07:07:12 PM »
 

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I just wish people would stop calling me "Dan"...

my bad - mass apologies, on my screen your name is purple against a black background and I am far sighted. I will give you positive post credits for every time I have made that error.

Here are some random decks in my collection:



















Really random decks:
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Re: Hello my name is David from Texas
« Reply #39 on: April 05, 2013, 09:47:16 AM »
 

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But I uber love this deck


check out my review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgopCoO6Q_Y

Here is my remaining wish list:

Alchemist
Apollo
Artifice (any of them)
Artisan
Aurum
Azure and Sanguine
Bee Coterie
Best Made
Bicycle Gold and Silver box set
Big Guns
Black Magic Skull
Black rider 808 backs
Black Spider (Magic makers)
Blaine Silver Split Spades - BOUGHT
Brimstone
CAJ Gaff deck
Distressed Expert
Domino
Doomsday
Earthtone 9
Engima (EZ Magic)
Faded Rider back (Magic makers)
Houdini
Infinity
Karnival Assassins
Karnival death heads
Karnival Hornet
Karnival Z Ray
Lancer Ex
Leaf Back
Mana Deck
Mechanic
OGMA
Magic Con v2
Ornate
Outlaw
Phoenix Brand Deck
Phoenix Bicycle Deck
Prestige Back
Revision 1
Ritual
Scorpion (Magic Makers)
Sentinels
Serpent
Skull & Bones
Skullkor
Stickman
Sultan
Templar Knights
The 3 Bedecieved decks (Confidence, Mystery & Style)
The Grid
Truth Garden 1& 2
Venom & Venom Strike
War of Current
White Raiders
Zodiac

And the Heritage Design reprints
o   acorn
o   all wheel #2
o   automobile #2
o   chainless
o   League
o   lotus
o   Nautic
o   pedal
o   pneumatic #1
o   safety
o   tangent
o   thistle
o   tri tire 2
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Re: Hello my name is David from Texas
« Reply #40 on: April 05, 2013, 11:42:40 AM »
 

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Here is my remaining wish list:

Alchemist
Apollo
Artifice
Artisan
Aurum
Azure and Sanguine
Bee Coterie
Best Made
Bicycle Gold and Silver backset
Big Guns
Black Magic Skull
Black rider 808 backs
Black Spider (Magic makers)
Blaine Silver Split Spades
Brimstone
CAJ Gaff deck
Distressed Expert
Domino
Doomsday
Earthtone 9
Engima (EZ Magic)
Faded Rider back (Magic makers)
Gold trace
Houdini
Infinity
Karnival Assassins
Karnival death heads
Karnival Hornet
Karnival Z Ray
Lancer Ex
Leaf Back
Mana Deck
Mechanic
OGMA
Magic Con
Ornate
Outlaw
Phoenix (both of them)
Prestige Back
Revision 1
Ritual
Scorpion (Magic Makers)
Sentinels
Serpent
Skull & Bones
Skullkor
Stickman
Sultan
Templar Knights
The 3 Bedecieved decks
The Grid
Truth Garden
Venom & Venom Strike
War of Current
White Raiders
Wish List
Zodiac

And the Heritage Design reprints
o   acorn
o   all wheel #2
o   automobile #2
o   chainless
o   League
o   lotus
o   Nautic
o   pedal
o   pneumatic #1
o   safety
o   tangent
o   thistle
o   tri tire 2

Alchemist comes also in an Alchemist X (black deck) version, as well as being made in miniature in both color schemes without the Bicycle name on them.  Same for Phoenix, as far as the minis - all from Stephen Rook, if I remember correctly, and produced by Vincenzo DiFatta.

Distressed Expert comes in TWO versions.  The initial version is darker and has the wrong back on it, a very similar back called the Old Fan Back.  The corner images are printed on fans like the type someone would bring to church to stir up a breeze on their face.  The Expert back has the same corner images, but not on fans.

You want a Bicycle Gold Trace?  It's a clip-art deck!  I have yet to see a good-quality design come from Bill Merz (Merz67.com).

Karnival Assassins have come in three versions so far.  Original, foil tuck and now the new color.

There's two Magic-Con decks so far.  Last year's model was the second.  The one before that had a plainer blue and black box.

When you say "Phoenix (both of them)", are you referring to Bicycle Phoenix, or the Phoenix brand?  Aside from the miniature decks, Bicycle Phoenix only came in one version that I'm aware of.  Phoenix decks, though - there's quite a few, all from Card Shark (card-shark.de), some of which were made at USPC and some which were not.

"The 3 Bedecieved decks" are actually from BeDeceived, which was Collin Stover.  They are, in order, the Style Deck, the Mystery Deck and the Confidence Deck.  BeDeceived has since been folded by Collin so he can focus on Peachcrate Design.

"White Raiders" are just Raiders, and they also came in black.  They're tough to find these days - the producer, Magic Network, went out of business.

Now, what the heck is the "Wish List" deck?  :))
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Re: Hello my name is David from Texas
« Reply #41 on: April 05, 2013, 01:38:31 PM »
 

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Here is my remaining wish list:

Distressed Expert
Stickman


You may want to check out your local Walmart.  I was at mine yesterday and picked up 2 Distressed Experts (with the correct back), 2 Stickman, and 1 Pink Nautic Back (the only Nautic they had dangit).  $2.97 each.
 

Re: Hello my name is David from Texas
« Reply #42 on: April 05, 2013, 04:03:50 PM »
 

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I have the Wal-Mart nautic, I want the vintage series 4 pack that includes the nautic deck (it's a truer recreation)

http://www.amazon.com/Bicycle-Heritage-Playing-Vintage-Series/dp/B008H54970/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1WCKK9YOU3XI&coliid=I29NRSECJU8NKZ

Yes both Phoenix decks, the Phoenix Brand and the Bicycle Phoenix

Thanks for the info on the Gold Trace, I removed it from my wish list.
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Re: Hello my name is David from Texas
« Reply #43 on: April 09, 2013, 10:28:50 AM »
 

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Re: Hello my name is David from Texas
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You're catching up - that's about 20% of my collection...  :))  1500+ decks, 500+ models.

The important thing is that you're having fun collecting them.  Without that, why bother?
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Re: Hello my name is David from Texas
« Reply #45 on: April 10, 2013, 12:03:59 PM »
 

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Re: Hello my name is David from Texas
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Re: Hello my name is David from Texas
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Re: Hello my name is David from Texas
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