 Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review Hey today, we're gonna look at the Chancellor playing cards from Paul Carpenter If you don't know the Chancellor deck of playing cards was originally sold exclusively from and carded calm It was sold as a pre-release. It was like 20 bucks or so and it quickly sold out because of how limited This was run. There was only a thousand decks Printed and like I said, it's sold out and so now really one of the only places you can get these is from rare playing cards Dot-com rare playing cards.com has this deck currently for $40 the chancellor deck Like I said, it was printed from in carded. It's boasting some very incredible artwork and some very interesting design innovations chancellor is following in the line of in carded's Legacy of cards, it's very similar to Zenith and it's probably the most beautiful deck In carded has made to date the deck itself is inspired by a small detail on a century old bicycle card back that has now grown Into an incredibly detailed artwork And it's packing all of that experience and design innovations that in carded has already been developing since it started back in 2001 Why is it so expensive? Why is it so expensive because you know only a thousand decks were printed only a thousand decks were printed And it's sold out and so that kind of makes this deck hard to find and so hard to find means limited availability And that means expense the tech ace as you can see is done on a thick matte black paper It has detailed blind embossing and it has two foils both copper and black has this big Seal up there on the top that wraps all the way down the back and there it has a individual signed and number That's front of the tech ace has this beautiful gloss against matte Feature and down here at the bottom. It says Chancellor in a brass colored band that wraps all the way around This side says that they are in carded playing cards This side has Paul Karpenter signature the bottom has some ad copy about in carded aside from the beautiful tuck seal The card flap itself is very thick and long It's a long tongue which I like and then the bottom Still continues that band and there's a lot of beautiful like flowery embossings that is pretty much it for the tech Case, let's take a look at these cards. These cards are pretty from the expert playing card company and they are done on their master finish So if you already have the zenith cards, you're gonna find that these are done pretty much the same way as far as thickness and Handling goes these cards do measure on the thinner end. So these are thinner cards, but they have a very stiff feel Okay, so if you put those two things together thin stock, but a stiff feel when I measure them out They're about the same thickness as the Sons of Liberty cards from Dan and Dave or the knock playing cards US PCC also did a auto bike back Re-release they're about the same thickness as that the back design is very simple. It's very elegant It is also done in four metallic inks that have given birth to something called a shadow bordered back and It has very subtle edge details very subtle dimension very subtle artwork and you'll also see that it has a very thin Gray border all the faces in this deck are completely custom with this deck. You're gonna get two custom jokers It's a scribe gentleman standing in full dress And you'll see that in one he is colored and his arm is bent his left arm is bent And then in the other one it's black and white and his right arm is bent all the face cards also have a faint shadow Corner marking in each one of the corners. It's almost kind of like a watermark. It's just a shadow ornamentation That's the very subtle again. You have original pips and indices all original layouts You will also notice that the faces are completely white and the backs have the gray border So reverse cards will definitely not stay hidden This ace of spades has a very understated Pip there in the center at the top of it It says trademark limited edition and the bottom says encarded signature series and there's Paul Carpenter All your pips and indices cards have familiar layouts, but the pips have all been completely redesigned Also, the courts have been completely redrawn and redesigned They are all dramatic and they feature beautiful details and unique color variations Well, that is it for this review of the Chancellor playing cards from Paul Carpenter and encarded I want to thank Rare Playing Cards for allowing me to have this deck so that I could do the review for you And if you want to purchase your own you can find it at rareplayingcards.com. Thanks. Bye