 Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review Hey today, we're gonna look at legal tender from Jackson Robinson and Kingswild. All right So what is the legal tender deck? This was a Kickstarter originally. It was a Kickstarter successfully funded and there was two Decks with this both of these decks Revolved around currency. They revolved around money. One was the United States, which is the one I have and this is the one I'll be reviewing for you today and the other one was for China. All right So the inspiration behind this deck like I said illustrated playing cards from Jackson Robinson over at Kingswild Inspired by currencies of the world You might remember several years ago Jackson. He started on this journey of designing playing cards to federal 52 Was his first release. I got all of those loved them Over those years. He's grown just a lot more as an illustrator and as a playing card designer He's designed for himself. He's designed for really big names in the industry like David Blaine And so it's I think it's his hope now that with this new project Legal tender he'll take everything he learned from all of those lessons and all those experiences in all those years and Kind of create the most artistic deck. He can legal tender is the natural evolution of this incredible love for currency art Banknote art and hopefully what this project does is it inspires even more decks in this series the kind of Champion the vastly different styles and looks of currency around the world the front of the tuck case is all done in the colors of money Like this looks like what money looks like, right? It's that same kind of Green tone. You can't just use green, right? You just can't use green It has to be a certain type of green that actually looks like US currency and you'll notice that it does have Really beautiful embossing on the top there. You can read a legal tender in that green foil Both sides say legal tender in foil. The bottom has some ad copy about Jackson Robinson and Kings Wild you got some foil logos there as well The back design of course is the back design of the cards the top says legal tender That's also in foil. Just foil foil foil all the way around this the front It has a lot of different images from what from currency you have the seat the seal there You got the Kings Wild logo. It says 2016. You have the all-seeing eye It says Kings Wild project underneath that so yeah, just on and on and on just beautiful engraving kind of slash banknote slash currency Look to it. The tongue flap is a nice big fat tongue flap It has the Kings Wild Logo there then the two inside tuck flaps have the all-seeing eye and then on the inside you got foil on the inside Like how often I don't know except for Kings Wild decks How often you seek foil on the inside tuck lining you got foil on the inside tuck lining and then you have this beautiful script work Beautiful script work carrying all the way down inside the tuck box. Where else but Kings Wild do you get such a beautiful? Artistically designed tuck case nowhere. I say nowhere. That's pretty much it for the tuck case Let's take a look at these cards. These cards were printed in connection with a partnership with expert playing card company But they didn't use the Taiwan playing card company like they normally do they used a new printer out in Taipei Now a lot of people always ask how these cards feel and how they handle So when I when I hold on to these they they do feel a little like they have a plastic key kind of glossy service to them and They also feel stiff. They feel stiff, but they're not thick. Okay, they're thinner cards But they're just stiff feelings So actually if I take ten of these cards that I stick them into a caliper I measure ten of these and that's use that as my base and then compare that against other decks that I have in my Collection ten of these and the caliper comes to two point seven four See that's definitely on the low end two point seven four is about the same thickness as the Aurelian cards the killer Bees from illusionist and the Mondrian deck with this deck You're gonna get a dip dick of Mount Rushmore and I would guess these are either your extra cards or your jokers However, you want to use them, but yeah, it's a beautiful like line drawing of Mount Rushmore Your ace of spades is a huge big bold graphic illustration You got the seal at the top the all-seeing eye. It says United States You have the giant golden pip there in the center underneath that it says Kingsweld project Yeah, one of the biggest most beautiful ace of spades Jackson has done to date each one of your pips and indices suits are gonna be completely different They've all been completely redesigned. You're gonna have the classic Jackson Robinson pips and indices of course, but it's the surface of that. It's the background behind it That's a little different. One of the things you're gonna notice right away is that each one of the backdrops is a different color Each one of the backgrounds is a different color so much so that when you like fan the cards face up You have a little striation of different colors, especially when they're all in suit order You see like these giant blocks of color. So that's a really interesting Aesthetic that I've never seen before the hearts. There's a watermark in the background of like an eagle's head The clubs has the presidential seal Eagle in the background the diamonds has the top of the statue of liberty in the background and then the spades has like a Document from Congress with like text and scripting now your court cards are all gonna be Images of famous people from our United States history lifted from currency Banknotes and other places. So right away. I think you're gonna notice a lot of familiar faces like Andrew Jackson George Washington Hamilton, right people you've seen on the $1 or $5 $10 bill But then you're also gonna get a lot of new people Maybe their image you've never seen before either on currency banknote or whatever as a card collector and as a person who appreciates Jackson's work There's a lot in this deck that I enjoy and I was glad to have picked it up if you'd like to learn more about Jackson Robinson or you want to see more of his cards or just Follow him on any of his social media platforms head on down to King's Wild and be sure to subscribe to him on his YouTube channel He's got lots of cool like behind-the-scenes videos follow him on Facebook and Twitter. He's very prolific as far as what he puts out there and what he shares with his public and so Yeah, all right, so that's my review of legal tender from Jackson Robinson and King's Wild project as always We ask that you like this video just so other people can find it faster We also recommend that you subscribe to this channel just so that you can stay up to date on the latest in cards and card magic If you want to follow me on social media, you can I'm at facebook.com slash magic orthodoxy twitter.com slash magic orthodoxy Instagram.com slash magic underscore orthodoxy and if you ever need more content, you can always find it at magic orthodoxy com Thanks. Bye