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- What's up, guys, and welcome back.
In today's video, I'm going to checking out two brand new
decks of cards that I just received which are the Bruce Lee
playing cards and the Cobra playing cards.
Kind of a bit of a martial arts theme going on here.
Update number one, for those of you who have received
your first playing cards, a lot of people have written me;
I haven't received a link with a secret trick.
I will send out an secret trick via email which I'm working
on right now, as soon as everybody gets their cards.
That link will be sent to you in a mass email
with an unlisted video to a trick that you guys
can perform with this deck.
And update number two, not really an update.
We ran a contest last week with some fan art,
so I have compiled the very best fan art that you guys
have submitted, although, I was going to choose one winner
to send three decks to, which I still will,
there's also a few other people who I'm sending
a sling deck to just because I couldn't only pick one.
And for all of those who submitted and were not featured,
thank you so much, it means everything to me that it's
so amazing that you guys took the time.
Let's get into some of these submissions.
I like this one just because it's super simple.
I mean, me thinking about views which is hilarious
and a tattoo that just says tattoo.
I don't want to be a hater, okay.
I hope you like my sketch,
it took me about eight hours to complete.
Chris Ramsay, he misspelled my last name.
I really hope you like my sketch, I did it on canvas
with charcoal. Again, I don't want to be a hater
but I'm pretty sure you didn't.
That's kinda cheating so. (imitates buzzer)
This guy too.
This took me about three hours to draw.
Bro.
If that took you three hours to draw, like, you,
forget magic.
This is some cool digital art, SonnyTheOne, appreciate that.
This is really cool sketch, ArtsyBuckle, thank you for that.
ElWombatArts, very, very well done skull.
This is also really cool, I like this one
because it's vibrant, it's colorful.
This is a cool digital artpiece, it kinda looks like
a poster from the 20's, like a Howard Thurston poster
or something.
Now, let's get into the winner.
So first, I'm going to run through the runner-up.
You guys all get one deck of cards, I will DM you,
if I haven't already.
First runner-up is this 3D render, this kind of like
auto cad 3D render of my head.
If I were to make Sim, this would be it, so thank you
for that, you got a deck coming your way, buddy.
Annick de Gayter, this is incredible.
I showed this one to my mom and she was, like, blown away.
It's insane, you also got a deck coming your way,
so thank you for that.
This is one of my favorites, probably came close
to being my favorite, drew Obie, fanning out a deck
of first playing cards.
Ten-say-tal, this is unbelievable.
So, so, so, dope, keep drawing, please.
Lee-air-ee Art, I don't know how to pronouce your name
but this is insane.
I don't understand how some can just scribble and, yet,
be so accurate.
DomasPhotos, you also got a deck coming your way
'cause I think this is just one of the cooler poses
where I'm holding that skull.
And then we have Nee-col-ahs, Nee-co-las V-tee-ah-de-man.
This charcoal, this is charcoal.
Killed it, bro, this is insane.
How does a human being recreate this, this is incredible.
Please pursue this in your life, please do this every day.
So finally, the winner of three decks of cards is
this one here by SayanRupak.
There's something about this that I absolutely love.
I love that they're not exact, I look like I'm in
a Tolkien book or something.
The abstractness and the surrealism is just
so, so, so great.
This one captivated me the most out of all of them
and it was really hard to choose one that stood out.
Guys, you put so much time and effort into every one
of these drawings, I'm completely blown away.
So this one gets three decks of cards,
I will DM you as well.
Thank you so much for all the submissions.
I'm sorry I couldn't feature absolutely everybody
who drew something or who came up with something digitally
but I really, really appreciate you and thank you,
thank you so much.
I think this was such a fun contest to host
and every day I was refreshing my feed
and showing my friends or my family all these really,
really rad pictures that you guys came up with.
So thank you for that.
Alright, let's get into checking out some decks of cards.
First of all, Bruce Lee versus Cobra Kai, whoof.
Let's start with the Bruce Lee deck.
Cellophane comes of nicely, always a good thing.
This is the tuck case.
Tuck case is a nice little cardboard.
No embossing on the tuck case, just straight printing
but very simple with a nice little seal.
Ooh wee!
I love this.
Have a good look at the inside of this tuck case.
That is pretty, that is really pretty.
Ooh, look at these cards, baby, baby, baby.
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(cards ticker)
Oh, these feel great too.
They don't feel too thick, they're really easy to fan out
and very easy to spring. (cards ticker)
Oh my gosh, these are like butter.
These feel really nice, not gonna lie.
We got little two-way, dragon back design.
You got some ad cards here, they look really good.
There is a bit of a misprint I can see,
and that's just something that happens from time to time
with USPC and that doesn't mean that all the decks
are like this.
Sometimes, it's a very, very limited amount of decks
that have this where it's a little bit off-printed
and that happens, it's just something you can't avoid
and it's nothing you can really control
because of the amount of decks that are printed and stuff.
But not all the cards in the deck are like this,
as you can see, this one's completely fine.
It might happen to a few of them, a little bit offset
but that doesn't really throw me off, to be honest.
Here are the faces, oh, the faces are interesting.
Be water, my friend.
There are all these quotes, using no way as way.
Oh, I see you, Nick.
Having no limitation as limitation.
All types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge.
Not a really good quote, this guy's like,
this guy's like Gandhi.
All the jokers are bad ass, there's one,
and there's the other.
Those kicks. (imitates karate sounds)
Pretty sick.
The aces has this yin-yang which is dope.
What do the other ace have?
The ace and the other, they're all just quotes.
These are not cards that you would perform magic with.
These are definitely cards that you would just do
cardistry with or just have laying around at your house.
Obviously, for me, if this was a standard deck of cards
with a back like this, I would prefer that, personally,
much more because then I would find a use for it
in every day carry.
However, this is a really, really cool addition
to the collection and I really, really like the back design.
I say really, really a lot, so I'm gonna stop saying that.
I really like the back design, alright.
And they fan out really well.
Look at that, eh, look at that, look how beautiful that is.
Oh, is that a thumbnail; I don't know.
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Wah! (cards thump on floor)
Oh no, whoops.
I'll stick to magic.
Alright, that was the Bruce Lee deck.
Now, let's have a look at the Cobra Kai deck.
I know it's not the Cobra Kai deck and I call it
the Cobra Kai 'cause I'm a 90's kid and I was born
in the 80's.
To go along with the martial arts theme,
let's check out the Cobra Kai deck.
(cellophane snaps) (grunts)
You're one of those aren't you; oh, yes you are.
Oh what!
Okay, hold on a second.
And they look incredible, look at that look.
That is a dope look.
Yeah so, oh my god, the way this feels
is really, really slick.
This feels like the same cardboard as the,
do you know the red monarchs,
how they have like a velvety feel?
That's what this feels like, I wish you could touch this
right now, here, go ahead and touch it.
See what I mean, you see?
Gold embossing, Cobra.
I love this line that goes across, and it's actually
two cobras, a really, really nice, minimalist design.
And check out the back here, blind emboss.
I'll put it to the light so you can see.
There's a cobra there, embossed.
I want to rub this 'cause it feels so nice.
See a tuck case this nice, cards better live up to it.
On the inside, except we got two little cobra heads
which is really cool, oh, and it continues from here.
That's clever.
More cellophane, oh, look at the back.
Very, sort of, classic but still has that line art
modern feel to it.
Look the cards stay together, isn't that sick?
Ugh, so much, why do they do this?
Like, dude, there's enough plastic in the world,
stop wrapping your cards twice.
Let's save a little bit of plastic, alright?
So these are printed in, manufactured by Cartamundi.
Cartamundi, man, we've been seeing a lot of you guys, huh?
And they feel great.
The feel like the Copags, like the one that I reviewed.
Very soft, yet thick, they're thick, yet soft.
Much like myself.
Here's the ace, check that ace out.
Look at that ace.
That's a nice ace.
A little bit of metallic gold there.
This is one of these back designs that could work
in any color.
If you printed a green version, I think the green version
would also be dope; a blue version, like a royal blue.
One thing about Cartamundi,
I'm always afraid of the longevity of the cards, like,
how long are they going to stay this nice
without clumping up.
If I start playing with these tomorrow, will they,
all of a sudden be complete crap; I hope not.
I feel like it's no, but it may be; I'll test them out.
The faces are standard which I appreciate.
The pips are a little thicker indices,
they are a little thicker which is nice too.
They put that gold, metallic ink on the faces,
which is cool.
And you get your jokers here, so pretty much identical
if you were to do a magic trick with these,
no one would be able to tell them apart, although,
this is in red, that's in black.
No one would really know unless you drew their attention
that way, but the jokers are really, really slick.
And then you get a double backer and a blank card
which is really cool.
So definitely a deck you could perform magic with.
See, this is something that I would carry around,
a deck like this.
I'd be afraid to damage the box, however, this box
is just emmaculate.
I never asked for them, they never even sent me a note.
They're just like, here's...
Kinda cards.
I hope you enjoyed that little review, I really like these,
by the way.
Look how thick that is, like, I don't know if you can tell
but it's, literally, thicker, look at that,
it's thicker, the cards are thicker than the box
of the Bruce Lee cards. (cards ticker)
I think you guys knocekd it out of the park.
And that's it.
Oh, got it, dealt.
Nailed it, mm!
- If you try to remember, you will lose.
- Sweep the leg.
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Alright guys, that about wraps it up for this review
of these two playing cards, I haven't done a playing card
review in a long time and there's a reason for that
'cause I have a new series coming up and I'm so stoked
to share with you.
Um, I'm headed to Toronto Monday to shoot something
with a good friend of mine, Peter McKennon,
one of which is one of the first episodes
of the series that I'm coming out with.
I will drop the name of the series soon.
I don't want to give a way too much
but I'm really, really stoked for it and I hope you guys
will tune and give it a shot.
So anyways, thanks for watching.
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and we'll see on the next video, peace, right.
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