hey guys this video is a little different in that I'll be reviewing the
handling of a gold gilded deck. This Bohemia deck was hand gilded with 24
karat gold leaf using proprietary methods developed by Uusi. The gilded
version of this deck has a special seal as you can see here. And now let's take a
look on the inside. So we've got some kind of protection here for the gold
edges. And here are the cards. they're all solid in one block right now and I'm
going to need to break them apart
so to break these cards apart I'm just going to give them a little bit of
squeeze in the middle
now they're starting to come apart here in little chunks
and now I can tell by looking at the edges that they're all individually
broken apart. so how do the cards handle straight out of the box. they clump up
quite a bit all right let me try to give these cards of Faro and see how that
feels they do stick a little I just need to soften up the edges a bit I think
probably the best way to break in these cards is doing a standard riffle shuffle
because a it bends the cards a little bit it flexes them and it gets some air
into the cards maybe some overhand shuffling which will cause the cards
edges to rub against each other and help smooth things out and of course
continuing to do more favour shuffles will help as well
yeah I can already feel the difference now the cards are Fanning better so what
I'm going to do now is stop recording I'm going to continue to break in the
cards and then see how they handle afterwards
okay so I spent about 20 minutes breaking in the cards doing mostly just
riffle shuffle sfera shuffles and springing cards and after doing all that
I would say the cards handle much better than when they first came out of the box
thumb fans are much better as you can see rippling the cards feels totally
normal one-handed fans feel great the cards feel flexible when doing riffle
shuffle just like normal cards you can spread them without issue in fact I
would say the only thing that is a little difficult to do with a gilded
deck is the Faro shuffle even after having worked the cards in they seem to
just want to stick a little bit when I'm trying to interleave the cards here
sometimes I get it like that time was no problem that worked perfectly but other
times the cards edges will just bind a little bit as you try to push them
together it just requires more of a delicate touch and sometimes you'll miss
a few cards like I don't know if you can see there but I missed a few in
comparison here is a pharaoh with a normal deck of Bohemia cards he just
goes together much smoother and I didn't miss any cards that way
so in summary unpleasantly surprised with how well the cards handle for being
a guilted deck I thought they might feel weird but after you broken them in the
handle fine card springs fans dribbling and shuffling all feel normal
in fact when doing packet moves the edges seem to have a slightly better
grip the only issue I ran into is that performing Faro shuffles is more
difficult but for most purposes the cards feel great and can be used like
normal and of course the gilded edges look very nice in my opinion so that's
it for this time because the neighbors dog is going insane so I feel like it's
a sign that I should stop this video feel free to comment below I always
enjoy reading what you guys have to say