Hi guys,
During the last months I've been purchasing some of the most interesting decks on KS for me. But I would like you know in your opinion which decks area must in any collection.
Thanks
There's practically no such thing as a must-have deck. It's too much of an individual choice and there's so many different designs out there - practically a different design for each collector! Then there's the matter of purpose - some decks are well-suited for poker, some are designed for magic (not a trick or gaff deck, but a deck whose design is simply good for that purpose), some are better for cardistry, some are just good general-purpose game decks, some are more for people who enjoy the artwork, etc. It's really a case where there's something for nearly every possible taste and pleasure.
One deck I've been playing with more lately is Bicycle Grimoire. The courts have skeletal faces and the Ace of Spades is absolutely plain - same exact size pip as on all the other spot cards, completely and utterly unadorned, free of any wording or print beyond the sole center pip and the indices. You wouldn't know the name of the deck if it didn't come in its box. There are very few decks with such a plain Ace of Spades, and most of those will have an alternate card fancily decked out as the "signature" card (like the Ace of Clubs in the Ellusionist Artifice Black Club Edition or the Ace of Diamonds in the Legends Serpentine deck), but this deck has no such alternate signature card - it is without signature. The jokers are marked with nothing beyond having the word "joker" on banners.
That deck came from Titanas Magic Productions about three years ago and the artist was Manoj Kaushal. He has a new deck on Kickstarter now, recently launched, as part of 9780 Design called
Bicycle Classic.
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