That also just gave me an idea for the jokers! One joker can be red and one black.
I'd take it a step further...were it not for a little problem...
One of my favorite decks is the Bicycle Samurai deck by Sam Hayles, one of the few decks he designed that wasn't made for Big Blind Media and their Karnival series. It's not an exceptional deck and the back design is sort-of almost but not-quite subtly one-way, but the thing I liked most about it was that it had THREE jokers - two identical, one different. This allowed for greater versatility in how they could be used, for games as well as for magic. Some card games call for using jokers that are identical (or are at least treated as such) while others call for jokers that are different as they're assigned different uses or ranks in the game. In magic, some tricks work with different jokers, some work with identical jokers - and some can do a trick using identical jokers but throw off suspicion by demonstrating that "both" jokers are different, since few people expect a deck to have three jokers in it... They can also be used as a fun alternative in a three-card monte routine. In fact, for a truly insane version of three-card monte, have four jokers in total, only three of which are identical! Pull a card switch at some point and you can show off three identical cards - "follow the lady" turns into a wild goose chase!
But - and this is important - as much as I love multiple jokers, the contest rules state you have to make your deck within the restrictions of what EPCC regularly produces in a single deck sheet - a 54-card deck, so you have only two extras, no more. Both, either or none can be jokers, but there can only be two in total. Now, if you were hiring Expert to make the deck for you, under those circumstances (and for an extra fee), you can have as many cards as you like in your deck. Uusi's BRuT Tarot deck is a good example of this - they have two uncut sheets packaged as a set to show off the entire deck of 78 oversized cards, plus an artistic triptych of Hercules wrestling a lion - 81 cards in total, unless they also did an ad card to boot...
Well, it's something to consider for your next deck project - the one you create yourself or launch on Kickstarter!
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