 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Brethrenoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Whispering Imps Gamesters, both red and black. So if you don't know, Whispering Imps, that is a product line designed by Chris Chilco. And if you want to learn more about the Whispering Imps products, you can visit WhisperingImps.com. This deck is the second, it's kind of the second. It does even say number two at the bottom of this tech case. It's kind of like the second project after the Whispering Imps project. Now there's the Gamesters project. This was released on Kickstarter. It was successfully funded and these are the finished products in my hands. Like I said, this campaign was done in both red and black. The biggest difference of which is the back design. These are the back designs of the cards. You're going to have a red back design or black. And then the tuck case as well is done in red and black also. For the sake of this review, we're going to use red just because it stands out a little bit more on camera pops a little bit better. Front of this tuck case is very ornate. This was done on purpose because the original Whispering Imps project had a very minimalistic tuck case, very simple, very clean designs. You can go back and look at a lot of my other Whispering Imps deck reviews. And then the cards themselves were very ornate. So what Chris decided to do was do the opposite this time. Do a very ornate, very rich looking tuck case, and then a very simplistic back design. This says first quality playing cards at the top says Whispering Imps. Then you have the little picture there of the Imp playing poker there with a dealer. And then it says game stars down there at the bottom. And then like I said, it says number two. This side says game stars playing cards as well as this side. The bottom has some ad copy about Chris Chilko and Mark Stutzman, who is the artist of this deck. You might remember Mark Stutzman also has done a lot of decks for legends and David Blaine on and on and on. The tops has the WI icon for Whispering Imps. And then it has some vinework there. The tuck tongue is really cool. It has a giant banner. It's also the bigger tongue flap. And it says game stars right there. And then the back design of course is the WI for Whispering Imps. That is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards are printed from the expert playing card company and they are done with their master finish and they do have a traditional cut. And if you'd like to learn more, you can visit the expert playing cards website. Your back design is very simple. It's inspired by a lot of the early Las Vegas casinos, things like Jerry's Nuggets, Gold Nuggets, The Wind. It's very clean, very simplistic, very elegant back design and allows you to focus on what's really important and that would be playing cards, playing the game. These game stars cards, that's what they are designed for. These are gaming cards, particularly poker or a table card, where you have to take a peek at your cards and you didn't want anyone else to know what they were. You can see the back design is done in this really bright red color. It's very sharp, very vivid. And then you can also see you have a really razor thin border as well. So the thing that makes this a gaming playing card set is the indices. You can see that you have four indices. You have your standard two here. And then you have another two that are sideways. These are placed only 2.5 millimeters away from the edge of the deck. And so when this is tabled, you're able to lift just the corner up and just gain a peek. That can be beneficial if you're playing, you know, a game like poker where you don't want anyone else to see your hand. With this deck, you're going to get a single Joker. It is the Imp character playing poker at a table. He's turning slightly back and looking at you. It says game stars down there at the bottom. It says number two, and then it has the words Joker there in the corner. And you'll notice a really cool optical illusion. The word Joker is up there at the top, but the shadow behind it is the word poker. Like previous whispering imps decks, the court cards are done in a very old fashioned, very classic look. The pips and indices cards all have big kind of chunky pit thoughts and the aces have exploded center pips. Your second extra card is a cut card. Now a cut card would be used in casinos, especially used by the dealer. What you would do is you take the cut card and you place it on the bottom of the deck so that when you are dealing cards off to people, the other players can't see the bottom most card. One side of the cut card is blank. And the second side has a quote from Benny Binion, which says trust everyone, but always cut the cards. Well, that is this review of the game stars playing cards. If you want to learn more or purchase your own, you can visit whispering imps.com. 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 to stay up to date on the latest in cards and card magic. Now if you want to follow me on social media, you can. I'm at facebook.com slash magic orthodoxy twitter.com slash magic orthodoxy and instagram.com slash magic underscore orthodoxy.