 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David, and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Ask Alexander cards. This deck was designed by Mark Stutzman. You might remember he's done a lot of the Conring Arts decks. He's also done a lot of the David Blaine decks. This deck was first initially released from Conring Arts. You can find it now at Art of Play and Danandade.com as well. This deck was released in conjunction with the AskAlexander.org website. AskAlexander.org, you can go to it right now. Primarily it's a database of all the books, pamphlets, brochures, everything that is currently in the library at the Conring Arts Research Center. The tech case on this is very simplistic in design. It simply says Ask Alexander playing cards. It's done in red and white. It has a giant gold question mark there. The side here says Made in the USA. The other side says the United States Playing Card Company. There's an ad copy there at the bottom about Mark Stutzman and the Conring Arts Research Center. The top says Poker and Cambridge and you have a standard USPCC deck seal as well as the back design of the playing cards. That is pretty much it for the tech case. Let's take a look at these cards. I guess if these cards are printed from the United States Playing Card Company and they are done on their thick casino grade B stuff. So why you prefer that? They're going to last you longer. They're going to be more durable. They also have a modern cut and then you have an air cushion finish. I know it says Cambridge on the box, but Cambridge is the old vintage B terminology for what Bicycle now calls air cushion. So Cambridge and air cushion, they're simultaneous. They're words that just mean basically the same thing. Another way to know that you're getting B stock is your jokers. You have two full size, full color B jokers. The back design is the same as the back design of the tuck. It is the Ask Alexander genie there in the center. And you can see that this turban is kind of forming the shape of a question mark. So why the way you can tell that this is a one-way back design? Correct, because the face upside down would not look the same. Because though this is a Mark Stutzman deck, there's a lot of other bells and whistles included and hidden in the back design. And I'll just kind of tell you briefly where to look. There's another one-way back design in the little knots that are here on the left and the right. There's another one-way back design up here with the angels from the top to the bottom. And on the face of the cards, there is also a one-way face design feature from the indices in the corner. So if you have this deck, you can look really carefully and find all those cool hidden secrets. This is your Ace of Spades. It is done in the old-fashioned Samuel Hart & Company logo. If you don't know Samuel Hart & Company, they started way back in 1849. And they eventually became the New York Consolidated Company that was responsible for bee and squeezers and a couple of other decks. And then that happened in 1871 and then later they became Bicycle. And so this is done kind of in that throwback vintage design. Along with this deck, you're going to get two Ask Alexander ad cards. It has a website down there at the bottom. So you never forget why this deck was released. Your Pips and Indici cards are all completely standard and instantly recognizable. Your Court cards are all done in the more vintage era. So they're all kind of throwback to the more previous, older-looking style. Similar clothing and weapons, of course. You're also going to get some unfamiliar faces or familiar faces, depending on if you have other Mark Stutzman decks. You're going to see Bill Colusion there. You're going to see David Blaine in there. And you're going to see Mark Stutzman as well. Alright, so that is it for the Ask Alexander deck. And if you'd like to purchase your own, you can head on down to, like I said, Condring Arts or Dan and Dave or Art of Play and probably find it there. As always, recommend that you like this video just so other people can find it faster. We also recommend that you subscribe to this channel just so you can stay up to date with all the legacy cards and cards. If you want to follow me on social media, you can.