Black Lions - David Blaine

[HankMan]

Interesting, something obviously changed along the way 

[Don Boyer]

Cool. But does that mean reasonable international shipping costs? I live in the UK and have, unfortunately, spent a small fortune of inflated costs over the last few years.

Check into using a consolidation/forwarding service like Shipito.  You send them your packages to a US address, they consolidate them into a single package sent to you - only one international shipping charge instead of several.  Also look into partnering with fellow Brits from your area or this forum and creating a buyers' club for cost-per-item and cost-by-weight savings by buying in larger quantities.

[hecrob]

So this MIGHT mean that we have 2 editions coming?

That would be interesting...

Another thing that i would like to discuss is the price...

On recent years, every black friday we have seen cheap bricks... $60 each one...

Green Gatorbacks were $60 and Silver Splitspades were $60 too...

My bet is this deck is going to be $60 at launch...

[Don Boyer]

So this MIGHT mean that we have 2 editions coming?

That would be interesting...

Another thing that i would like to discuss is the price...

On recent years, every black friday we have seen cheap bricks... $60 each one...

Green Gatorbacks were $60 and Silver Splitspades were $60 too...

My bet is this deck is going to be $60 at launch...

I don't think we're going to see two editions, per se.  I think "Black Lions, Silver Edition" might have simply been the name before they just called it "Black Lions", or maybe the full name is "Black Lions, Silver Edition" but it's just shortened to "Black Lions" since no other editions are out yet.

Lately, Blaine's been releasing decks one color at a time - the last time he did otherwise was with the White Lions Series B, plus he closely timed the releases of Silver Split Spades and White Lions Black Label.  With the Gatorbacks, each color came out one color at a time, each in its own release.  I'm guessing that is what we're going to see here - a single color Friday, perhaps another color or two down the road.  At most, maybe two colors will come out Friday - but it's hard to picture what, since white's perhaps the only other thing that would look good with so much black, and compared to metallic silver, it won't look nearly as nice nor as different.  Now if he called them Black Lions but made the field of black in different colors than black, like a solid blue or a solid red, that's a different story... 

[ksi]

So, any guess on the deck if the is marked or not?

My guess is, this deck is likely to be a marked deck (following the White Lions Series B).  But this is just my wild guess.

However, I do hope it is not marked.  So that I can treat it as normal playing cards and can play card games with friends.

[fenderdemon]

Cool. But does that mean reasonable international shipping costs? I live in the UK and have, unfortunately, spent a small fortune of inflated costs over the last few years.

Check into using a consolidation/forwarding service like Shipito.  You send them your packages to a US address, they consolidate them into a single package sent to you - only one international shipping charge instead of several.  Also look into partnering with fellow Brits from your area or this forum and creating a buyers' club for cost-per-item and cost-by-weight savings by buying in larger quantities.

That's a good idea about Shipito.. I'll look into that. Thank you.

I'm actually a misanthrope and, as such, don't have very many friends at all, so that rules the second option out 😂😂😂 Thanks anyway. 😉

[PrincessTrouble]

Silver Edition?

Apparently, the original tuck box had 'Silver Edition' at the bottom of the front, but the new version does not have it anymore, so I assume it should be just Black Lions

Maybe we should change the title of the thread and eliminate Silver Edition...

[hecrob]

30% off all* the items in the store...

Still nothing about the Black Lions price...


The * stands for itesm that are not already on sale.

[fenderdemon]

30% off all* the items in the store...

Still nothing about the Black Lions price...


The * stands for itesm that are not already on sale.

IRO the 30% OFF ENTIRE STORE* DB 'probably' won't include the SS and WL autographed uncut sheets. He only put those on the site, when it was resurrected, so I can't really see him reducing those bad boys.

However, if has has, I'll be furious, as I've just taken delivery of all 3 SS uncut sheets    Then again, who knows what goes through/on in that mind of his 

I say, the BL's will be by the brick for a bare minimum of $60, as he's done before.

[Don Boyer]

30% off all* the items in the store...

Still nothing about the Black Lions price...


The * stands for itesm that are not already on sale.

IRO the 30% OFF ENTIRE STORE* DB 'probably' won't include the SS and WL autographed uncut sheets. He only put those on the site, when it was resurrected, so I can't really see him reducing those bad boys.

However, if has has, I'll be furious, as I've just taken delivery of all 3 SS uncut sheets    Then again, who knows what goes through/on in that mind of his 

I say, the BL's will be by the brick for a bare minimum of $60, as he's done before.

The SS uncuts are new - it's the first time he's offered them for sale.  They weren't available for purchase when he gave me one - only as a personal gift from him.

It's entirely possible they'll go on sale - but if you write to them, they might be kind enough to credit you with the difference.

[hecrob]

David sent an email stating that the discount doesn't apply to the new arrivals...

So it wont apply to the Black Lions :/

Also it wont probably apply to the uncut sheets.

 

[PrincessTrouble]

Black Lions available now for $7 a deck.

[BiggerDee]

I bought a quantity and completed checkout at 12:02. Went back to get a few more 2 minutes later, and they were showing as sold out.

[HolyJJ]

I bought a quantity and completed checkout at 12:02. Went back to get a few more 2 minutes later, and they were showing as sold out.

I've just checked the black lions page... still shows as available.

[hecrob]

Well once again David destroyed the competition...

He released several items including 2 collectors boxes that i wasnt ready for... 

[BiggerDee]

They show available there but when placed in your cart, it will refresh the cart and show sold out. That's what it did at around 12:05. It says that the cart quantity is adjusted to reflect current inventory, which is 0, thus the sold out cart message. I saw the same during the red Gatorbacks. I was excited that I had snagged some, until I tried to check out and saw the sold out message.The main page is updated much later with the sold out text.

Edit: Just tried again and saw the sold out message. Attempted a second time, and didn't get the sold out message. Maybe it's a fluke generated by the cart system due to heavy demand. Hope that everyone is able to snag them if they want!

[Card Player]

I passed on these.

I like the idea behind black lions. However, the white lions tuck design was more sophisticated. I just dont think its Stutzman's best work. I would rather buy more black white lions.

[Don Boyer]

I just ordered some Black Lions - they're still available, apparently not a highly limited edition.  Those Variety Boxes are another story.  The Signature box had only 16 available to begin with and contained the "Create Magic" Microsoft deck, so I'm not surprised at all that it's long gone, but the Premium box is still available at $300, and has red Gatorbacks.

Red Gatorbacks can be had just a little more cheaply with a lizard-skin deck clip in the Accessories section: $275.  Only one of the models available comes with anything - the rest are just clips themselves, many of which come in a variety of colors and/or patterns.

[fenderdemon]

Has anybody seen any of the BL playing cards, complete, with the exception of one Joker? Seems like standard faces. What do the AOS and courts look like?

[Don Boyer]

Has anybody seen any of the BL playing cards, complete, with the exception of one Joker? Seems like standard faces. What do the AOS and courts look like?

Most of Blaine's decks have the same courts - his faces are mostly standard, but he replaced the faces of the court cards with people he knows.  He's on the King of Spades, his girlfriend is on the Queen of Spades, Bill Kalush is on the King of Hearts, etc.  Most decks designed for magicians and used by magicians will have faces that are standard or close to it - it's the familiarity factor for their spectators.  Most T11 decks are standard faces, not counting the commissioned work that they do for other companies (NoMad, Rarebit, JAQK Wineries, etc.).

[Siegismyname]

They are apparently printing some metallic blue and red ones for the holidays https://www.instagram.com/p/-1V9uQjPU8

[hecrob]

 

YES!

This is definitely hitting my wallet, after investing heavily in cards this black friday.

Its funny but Black "Blue" / "Red" Lions are going to sound weird, I hope the Metallux "process" really delivers for this decks.

UPDATE

After carefully looking at the vid, I cant confirm this is going to be a metallux deck

[PrincessTrouble]

Here is a screen capture from the IG video.

[ksi]

If these Red/Blue are in Metal Luxe, I probably would be broke.

[HankMan]

after the release I am going to be officially broke.

This is where my wallet says "NO!!!" but my hand keeps clicking the buy button anyway.