 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 International Cartistry Open 2016 deck from Cardify. All right, so what is this deck? Okay, so in conjunction with the International Cartistry Open 2016, this year, this year that I'm filming, Expert Playing Card Company and Cardify are releasing this commemorative deck to celebrate the tournament's third year in its existence. It's got really bold eye-catching designs that have all been meticulously designed by Brendan Hong and you might remember him from the Dynasty Playing Cards and the Hive Playing Cards. This tuck is that synthetic, thick, non-terrible paper that comes from Expert Playing Cards, which is awesome, and you can just see the pattern that wraps around this. It's mostly just this really beautiful dynamic image that goes around the tuck case. One side says produced by Cardify and the other side says Expert Playing Card Company. The bottom has some ad copy about Cardify. Top says International Cartistry Open 2016. There is no tuck seal, which is nice. And then the tuck flap is one of the nice big tongues and then you have the continuation of the design there as well. And you have a little bit of ornamentation on the two-tongue flaps. That is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. All right, so the stock and finish on this is something brand new. Expert Playing Card Company hasn't even named it. If you go to their website and look at this deck, it says it's an unnamed stock and finish. So, but I like it. It's really cool. It's very soft. When I measure this with the caliper, okay, and I get 10 cards, put them in the caliper to find out how thick they are because that's what I can tell you. I can tell you how thick they are and how they'll feel as compared to other decks. This measures to 2.88 millimeters, 2.88 millimeters. That is roughly the same thickness as the Westminster deck, the Gold Artifice deck, the Red Wheel deck, and the Red Core deck. All right, so this back design is very beautiful and very awesome for our cardistry. You can see that it's a dynamic back design that visually accentuates card flourishing, displays, fans, spins, cascades, all of those flourishes are going to look really incredible. The back design is also based around a quadrilateral symmetry. I love the colors of this deck. I heard the guys that at Cardify spent a lot of time kind of trying to figure out what the theme would be, but you'll notice upon a closer examination that they aren't the traditional colors. And so the black suits are actually this deep purple and the red suits are this bright orange. With this deck, you're going to get two original jokers, one accentuated with a purple J and the other with orange. These are the two primary colors of the deck. It does say international cardistry open 2016 in the center. Your ace of spades is going to be a large ace pip comprised of the color and design from the back of the card. It says international cardistry open 2016 expert playing card company. The court cards have a older, more arco look to them, which I like. It gives it a very classical feel. And then you can see all the courts are colored in the colors of this deck. So you're going to see a lot of that deep purple, a lot of that orange, and just a little bit of accents from either black or white. You're not going to get any gas, not going to get any extras or ad cards or anything like that. Expert played card company prints a standard deck with no extras. But like I said earlier, it's great for flourishing. It has an awesome feel to it. The cards are super buttery soft. They've got great edges. Can't go wrong with this deck. All right. So that is my review of the international cardistry open 2016 deck from Cardify and expert playing card company. 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 to stay up to date on the latest 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 need more content, you can always find it at magic orthodoxy.com. Thanks. Bye