I'd get a brick if it weren't for the one-way backs. I hate that style of card, and I feel it ruins the deck down to its core use: card games.
I don't get it, how does a one way back design have any effect on playing card games?
Turn all your cards facing a single direction. Turn certain key cards you want to track in the opposite direction. Voila - you're now able to know when those cards come off the deck. Each time a reversed back shows up, one of your tracked cards is being dealt.
Most companies making serious playing card designs these days make a deck with a two-way back - the same whether it's turned around or not. If they do incorporate a one-way design (usually if they're making a "magic" deck), they try to make it as subtle and hard to spot as possible, like most of the Karnival decks, the Magic Castle deck, Bike Guardians, Bike Phoenix, card-shark Phoenix, and just too many more to name them all. Only bridge sets with decorative-art backs are commonly sold with obvious one-way designs.
