Hey, what's going on guys and welcome back
Super excited today for two reasons the first this lens that you're looking through right now
That's looking at me; if you notice a little bit of quality enhancement, I just upgraded to the 24 mil 1.4
L Series from Canon. Give you a bit of a backstory not that you care, but I'm gonna tell you anyway
This is the first lens that I actually used for years when I was working at Murphy's when I was working at Ellusionist
And I'm so happy it's back as you can tell it gives you that nice depth of field you get those nice little
bokeh lights in the background
Photo quality is also going to be
upgraded a little bit on the grid
If you'll follow me on instagram make sure you do! Anyways and the second reason is, I received some very rare playing cards from expert
Playing car company now before I get into that I want to explain something today
We're gonna look at whether or not it's worth getting expert playing cards, and this is my unbiased review
There are multiple playing card companies out there right now the biggest is of course you United States playing card company
I've printed my cards with on a side note the cards are being a printed
They're sending me to proof for the for the little foil thing so everything's rolling along
I can't promise before Christmas that they'll be shipped out, but if not before just a little bit after Christmas
We'll get them shipped and trust me it'll be worth the guys, and thank you so much for your patience by the way
but back to
Expert plane car company is the other car company owned by Bill coluche the quality is very
Very different not the same at all if you're used to us
PCC cards these might be a little bit feel a little bit weird in your hand. I don't really use expert playing cards
I've used a few of them in the past and videos today
I'm just gonna sort of check them out and see
See what type because they're always sort of playing around the quality and everything else so we're gonna unbox these cards one of which only
A thousand have been printed, so we're gonna open a deck
That's super rare and check it out
I'm kind of excited to get my hands on these and see what they feel like compared them to
USPC cards see what all the the khofifah is about couldn't wait to use that word to be honest alright guys
Let's go
It's me that we have here are the boulder edition exquisite playing card then there's these which I've never seen in my life
They're called chosen and then these ones
I mean the box looks pretty dope I'm a big fan of the Skull and Bones card
Use them in my videos a lot and in performances and these ones here
It says right here number 87 out of a thousand so only a thousand of these were ever printed
We're gonna see what all the hype is about these cards. You know what let's start with the bolder
exquisite
Alright we're gonna take a look at the exquisite sand the
The exquisite errs the more the more exquisite s' and the less
Exquisite s' this was the original and these ones were kind of cool because you had
You have that foil stamp right back here
You also had a foil stamp on the face of the card look at that and that was like one of the first decks that
I've ever seen that have the foil stamp on the face or on the back of the card rather and to be quite frank
I'm gonna I wanna. I'll let you know right now first these cards. Let me made me want to vomit
I'm not gonna lie. I looked at these and I was like
There's they look like a nightmare after eating too much chocolate, but then they grew on me, and I kind of really liked them
so now we're gonna take a look at the bolder exquisite mmm not open these yet, so
Okay
All right so far plastic is
Toit (tight) like a tiger
Ooh, so I noticed one thing the tuck cage is a lot thicker poker playing cards bolder addition right here
We focus you think bolder edition first quality extra playing card Co
exquisite let's go so inside this box you have another cellophane wrap and
Okay, so there's something really drastically different with the back, which is interesting open these up
By the way pet peeve this this
This right now is a huge pet peeve for you Wow okay?
So if you notice the borders are almost non-existent look how thin those borders are and you'll also notice
There is not a foil stamp so before it was stamped and you can kind of see it on the other side
This is like printed on there, so it's like a foil print
And they've gone and they printed all the gold look at that kind illusion happening right now. Oh, yeah
I gotta say I like the back design like I said I wasn't a fan out of it before but see how they feel
Okay, so they?
They still had that fix sort of stock, which they've always had let's try a little pinkie count
Okay, but they are stiff, I'll give you that this is like yeah
I'm gonna build up muscle to my hands from playing with these. Let's try a LePaul spread
A little bit hard to do and let's look at the faces so they didn't change anything about the faces really kind of like that old-school
Face the ace there you go Joker's identical which I really like they smell
They smell it's a small
Plastic they feel a little bit more plastic than paper, which I don't really enjoy so used to us, PC
It's kind of a learning curve, but have to get used to these over here, but uh alright
Let's take these out for a little spin. See how they feel
So that was a bolder addition probably better off fork artistry
Just in general with this with this finish and this rugged
I feel like these cards are going to probably gonna become like all clumpy very soon, and I'll update you on that
But when they do clump the thing is with the thin borders
It looks the fans don't look as nice with thicker borders
You can sort of hide that because it hides the uneven cards, but right now
They're out of the box, so it looks great, but I have a feeling that when they clump
It's not gonna be it's not gonna be so nice
Oh, that's hard to do so give you my hand cramps right now right now. Let me checked out those cards
We're gonna take a look at chosen
Alright now we're gonna. Take a look at the chosen playing cards chosen. That's embossed
Let's take a look at the cards
Okay, interesting hmm that back design. That's kind of nice
I like the border sighs like the colors this quite nice ace of spades very simple doesn't get more simple than that cork cards
standard court card standard bicycle court card
Oh see they went they went ahead and made the diamond the cool ace oh look at you aren't you cool now diamond
But you're happy huh making all your friends jealous Ace of Hearts and another I'm guessing this is kind of like a joker
Oh, wow, I'm gonna tell you right now
These are definitely not as thick as the bold or the bolder or the boldest cards incredibly
These feel really interesting right now kind of like a mix between USPC
And I don't even know the oh I see it says stud finish
And I'm guessing they went ahead and tried to copy the finish the old studs
Which is kind of like this kind of like almost like a like a Linode finish like not necessarily air-cushion
But it is air-cushion. There's a fin wow these are great
I actually like these cards a lot the feel is so thinner let's try an anaconda. It's a bit windy, but we'll try it
Nope, let's see how these Faro yeah, these actually Faro pretty easily look at that. We can get up close and personal
She's actually Faro very nicely like the feel of these I'm actually pleasantly surprised. I didn't think I was gonna like these cards
Just because I thought they were gonna feel exactly like the last ones. They don't there is a little bit of
There's a little bit of that like rigidity on the sides of the word on the side
So you don't like is weird cuz you sp see when you have these cards you gotta like break them in
rub them on your knee and that type of thing because you have
These these edges of where they've been cut and now these they're super smooth on the edges right out of the box
So that's interesting. I don't know what the process for that is. See how they LePaul spread
Okay, no comeback
You guys quick tip even I dropped cards when I open them up fresh out of the box. It don't feel so bad
Messing up my mama love your side
So that was the chosen playing card
I'm not gonna lie these are my favorite so far of the expert playing cards line. Lets take a look at the skull and bones
Right now finally time to open this bad boy. Let's have a look
Alright lastly the review. We've all been waiting for the Skull and Bones
see what all the hype is about there's no tab I
Tell you the day we're going to invent cellophane. It doesn't give me anxiety
Oh, my gosh look at that box. So you've got like this cool. Look at that right there
We card porn coming at you pretty cool. Definitely not something. I'll lug around like look at this
There's a deck in your pocket or you. Are you a magician? I don't know how that joke
That's unfortunate I've like ripped the box now. I shouldn't be doing these equities
I'm the worst at opening a deck of cards yea, though
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil
Whoo those are the Joker's you got like one can and then another can with like a?
Logo demon coming out of it well magic trick there somewhere you want to awaken to demon
We'll just watch watch the demon awakened out of his
Jar, Oh? What the hell is happening here? I'm gonna look at the back right now
Let's just look at the face the back might be a little too much for me to handle
That's the face of the ace
I do like the AC aces are all normal, and then the Joker's okay the back design shield your eyes
That is weird
It's like some type of like linear foil, iridescent foil pattern. Yeah, I don't like that at all
I'm just gonna come out and say it. That's ugly those that is an ugly back ok. I'm sorry bill
Sorry those of you swear. By these cards that is an ugly butt like you had a decent back design
It's almost as if like you're like well
What could we do to make it more magician e let's?
Put a laser show on the back of a car that'll entice the buyers. I don't like this at all
Ok they feel all right they are thinner
They're a lot like the chosen cards ok not that way this way ok so they Pharaoh. They're untraditionally cut I would say
They're hard to even look at for me
They feel like you would get these you know when you buy like you can get like those hockey cards and McDonald's and they got
Like the hologram cards. It's kind of what they feel like yeah. Yeah, sorry, man
I really feel like you guys have you really blew it on this?
I'm not trying to take a dump on anyone, but I can't get behind these at all
Thanks for sending on my way kind of glad there only a thousand of them out there and what let's see these in action
Let's take them over a test
Alright, so that was the that was these
Cards not for me, maybe for you. Maybe you like them
It's like a playing card version of a disco ball or like you know Magic the Gathering need to get that one foil card those
Were cool these are not that's just my opinion don't take that to the bank
Underwhelmed a so there you have it who's my review of expert playing card
Cards final thoughts still I'm still gonna stick with the us, PC. That's just my personal opinion
I'm not not here trying to bash anybody. I'm not you're trying to talk good about somebody
I'm not gonna pay for any of this. I'm just saying this is my opinion
You know what have a go try them out
Maybe I know there are a lot of Cardiff's out there
who like extra playing cards because they clump together a little bit more at which for a magician might not be a good thing or
card handler but for
Packing custom active thing might be just right up your alley that being said I do like to chosen
Those are my favorite of the three the back design is really really nice
keep playing with those and see how they fare in the long run nap you said the bolder are kind of cool still prefer the
originals to the new ones
but
You know what they tried something new the foil sort of back works for that doesn't work so much for the skull and bones
But again let me know what you think let me know what your thoughts are my I guess my expectations were a bit high anyways
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