what's up guys Chris Ramsey here and
thanks so much for tuning in today I'm
gonna talk to you about something that I
hold very dear to me these are the
Knights playing cards we are to talk
about stock the finish the look feel and
all the design aspects as well as the
inspiration for this design and we're
also gonna go as far as to show you guys
the marketing system and I know a lot of
you have been looking forward to that
too stay tuned to find out how that
works also now until Christmas only so
that leaves you like four days you're
gonna get 10% off this deck until
Christmas basically I'm gonna give you
guys a coupon code near the end of this
video so if you guys want to take
advantage of that and get these while
they're hot because once they're sold
out I can't guarantee a second run and I
can't guarantee if we're going to put MV
too or not so you might want to snag
these Walter exists so this design was
conceived by Dana Madison and I along
with the help of our illustrator friend
Obon Jones over at illusionist we came
up with a design that's both
complimented chess and playing cards at
the same time and the result is
absolutely beautiful and for those of
you who haven't seen the trailer yet
check this out
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that was a trailer that Daniel and I
went to film in New York City he was a
lot of fun to put together as a lot of
fun playing those hustlers so without
further ado let's get into my very first
playing card review reviewing my own
deck might be a little biased let's do
that now let's have a look at Knights
playing cards when you receive this deck
you will see that it is wrapped in this
weird cellophane which I kind of like it
kind of calls back to the old-school
sello
one of my hugest pet peeves in the world
is opening cellophane I hate when you're
like yep so we've made it very easy for
you to open right here so once we get
that peel going whoop goes right around
look at that one clean swipe might not
seem like much but this for me was
everything open did a really good job
here on this logo as you can see that's
all in gold foil as is the back you've
got the two Knights right there the
center Madison
Ramsay me let's take a look inside the
tuckies you notice that the inside of
this is just immaculate look at that and
that goes all the way down it's kind of
cool too because if you put it up to the
light you can actually see through it I
believe this is the first time that
anyone's ever used gold foiling on the
inside the Tuck case so that was really
original I'm really happy about that
this box is just trippy looks great on
photos I mean you can rip it open and
you can take a photo of the inside of
the box that is beautiful TUC case very
simple I left a big space here and we
left that for a reason because this
might sound a little bit I don't know
how this is gonna sound but one of my
conventions and stuff some kids like
autographs they like to have their deck
sign so we left a nice space here where
you can write something and give it off
as a gift so that was like a personal
choice that we made which I thought was
pretty cool take a look at the cards
here we have the plain
now these come in a bit of a weird order
and we'll get to that in a second but
first and foremost we got these two
cards d-dad cards two horses
representing two Knights myself and
Daniel we got the four four the four of
spades the nine four the nine of clubs
are for Ramsay m4 Madison if you don't
need these or use these you can go ahead
and split those using this double
backers double facers whatever you want
to do it then your discretion up to you
I just usually throw these out jokers
Obon did a phenomenal job on the Joker's
this is all pointillism which is called
I think it's called pointillism correct
me if I'm wrong but it's dot work every
individual point was made using dots
that is all hand-drawn really love this
joke I think it's very fitting for this
deck and it looks great next up the
cards so first of all you'll notice that
the order is in a really bizarre order
that order is very very intentional I've
had some people ask me well why is this
in this order your cards are out of
order this is actually an order that not
a lot of magicians will be familiar with
because like so it actually means
nothing but with one simple out Faro
shuffle the order of this deck is
revealed again that might not mean much
to a lot of magicians but for those of
you out there this is a very important
order that you can keep these cards in
and you can give it one fair shuffle at
the beginning and you're here in this
beautiful order and to facilitate that
Faro shuffle these are traditionally cut
which it which is a rare thing nowadays
they will Farrow from down up as opposed
to up down so that's why they're so
smoothly interlaced the back of the card
we designed the back of these cards very
very simple because we wanted the
pattern to sort of replicate what a
traditional deck would look like without
sort of getting too ornate or too
detailed so this minimalistic design is
really really nice as you can see it's
just scattered chess pieces and because
this is printed in a metallic ink you
get that beautiful shine
and that is the same for the red so the
red instead of being red is gold and you
can see that beautiful shine there and
open did a great job and just
highlighting that goal by contouring
every pip in a thin black line which
really makes everything pop makes it
look really elegant beautiful and that's
the reason for that also notice that in
the very centre of these decks two
nights and that was done on purpose
actually if you spin these we would
probably just see the Knights so you can
get that sort of let's take a look at
the base of space in the ace of spades
once again we have that beautiful gold
metallic ink also we have this really
fancy art once again designed by Obon
Jones beautiful chessboard in the
background you have the two knights you
got that sword once again this ink as
well is all in metallic which gives it a
really classy look as I mentioned the
pips on the red cards are gold and we've
also shrunken them down just a little
open wanted to change it up just a
little bit so that they're not
completely standard but they have an
original feel to them without
compromising the integrity of the deck
the core cards
clothing now also in that beautiful gold
now if you noticed some of the core
cards have faces on them such as this
guy you probably recognize him manual
data so as well as myself huh found you
this guy this is the very first core
card that I've been introduced on in the
illusionist acts I'm very proud of Open
Jones once again did a stellar job
making me look very stoic on this King
of Spades some of the other core cards
include familiar faces like this guy
that is Bobby Fischer Oban Jones that is
not only was this deck
traditionally cut but it is also crushed
you can actually have their decks
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crushed so this is just an extra option
to make the cards feel worked in as soon
as you get them out of the box they feel
great as they should and lastly but not
leastly they are marked we didn't reveal
the markings at first because I kind of
wanted people to discover them for
themselves but here it is as you can see
some of the corners here are changing on
the right hand side have a look the
marking system works only with the value
of the cards not the suit because if
you're in that specific order that I
mentioned before you don't actually need
to know the suit to know what it is all
you need is basically the value let's
take a look at how the marking system
works if you notice here there are going
to be a few different types of actual
chess pieces in this top corner a pawn
is worth one a knight is worth three a
rook is worth five the bishop in this
case is a Jack Queen is the queen and
the king is the king now I'm going to
show you how to add those up one pawn is
up right in the top corner making this a
one two pawns in this case - never mind
that last piece that is completely
different if you see a higher value
piece such as a bishop queen or king
after the other pieces you can
completely negate it otherwise these
last pieces will be in a different
direction
letting you know it not to count it so
that is a - as I mentioned the knight is
it three followed by an upside down
piece so it stops there that is three
here's where we start adding them up we
have a three and a one followed by in a
different piece so in this case like a
king or a queen making that a four three
plus one is four here we have a rook
followed by an upside down piece which
makes out a 5 5 plus 1 is 6 only in a
few cases where you have to add up three
pieces and that is the maximum number of
pieces you have to add up in this case
we have a rook plus two pawns followed
by an upside down piece telling us that
we stopped there that is 7
rook at night eight rook Knight and pawn
that makes nine five plus three plus one
rook and rook ten the bishop is a Jack
the Queen is a Queen King you can tell
it to King because it has a little cross
on top of it that's the difference
between the Queen and King king is a
king
finally the Joker is just an upside down
King all four Joker's and add cards will
have this symbol a few final notes on
the design first off because the pips
are golden this does not make it ideal
for strolling magic in a dark area so if
I were to perform in a bar or restaurant
with a low lighting without light you
can kind of mistake that for a black
card which could be confusing in the
daylight it's fine so this is a deck
that I don't perform with professionally
but it is a deck that I will perform
with casually so it's something that it
will have on me perhaps with a nice card
clip nice little package it looks great
and people actually love to talk about
the design so in this case you can
explain to them it's a Chasteen deck
show them Bobby Fischer etc etc and then
proceeded to blow their mind these
they're amazingly well after time and
they do not appear ruined after a few
times using them they will actually feel
better and better and better which is
what I really love about this deck the
reason why we put the marking system in
the top right corner is so that when
someone chooses a card from a spread it
will not give away the disorder but also
mainly for this reason should someone
say stop whenever they like right there
I riffle one more boom I know that they
just looked at a jack feel free to use
that however you want it alright guys
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