 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 Union Deck. The Union Deck was designed by Jay Fletcher and released through Theory 11. Now, the Union Deck is inspired by colonial American history, and you can see this tuck case features gold embossed accents, so it's foil and embossing. The deck comes with custom jokers, custom court cards, custom ace of spades, and a double backer. As you can see, the tuck case is all done in this copper foil, and it wraps all the way around in a lot of very beautiful design work. It does have a very colonial, very Americana, very God bless America USA kind of feel to it, and that would go along with the title Union, right? One side says from the studio of Jay Fletcher, the other side says that they were manufactured by the United States playing card company. The bottom has some ad copy about Theory 11. The back design, of course, is the back design of the cards. You do get a custom tuck seal, which is nice and a very intricate, very ornate top. The tuck flap has some grain work, which you see on dollar bills and things like that, and that is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. Like I said, these cards were printed from the United States playing card company, and they are printed on their casino stock. They do have a modern cut and air cushion emboss, and if you'd like to learn more about stock cut or finish, you can click the link below in the description. Of course, the United States playing card company prints this at their Q1 highest level with vegetable-based inks, starch-based laminates, and printed on FSC certified paper. A lot of people always ask how these cards feel and how they handle. The best thing I can do is measure them with a caliper and then use that measurement and base it off of other decks that you may have held or handled. That way you can tell is this kind of the deck I like. When I put this into a caliper and I use 10 cards as my standard, 10 cards as my rule, it comes to 2.90. 2.90 is a thick casino grade stock. USPCC right now, when they print, their casino grade starts at about 280. They made a lot of their cards thinner, and so 280 is roughly where casino grade starts now. It used to be 3.0, but they've made that go down a little bit. This is 2.90, so it's a little thicker on a thicker side, so it's going to be the same thickness as the Artifice decks or the Grinder's decks or maybe even the Denim decks from Den and Dave. The back design, of course, is very patriotic, has a baldy gold on the top and bottom. It's a two-way image. There's a U on the top and bottom for Union. It does say Made in America and Theory 11, and then you can see that it's the same colors there as the tuck case. You got the black and the gold. You also notice that you have a very thin, very small border, which is great for fans and flourishes. With this deck, you'll get one ad card for Theory 11, and you'll get a doublebacker, which is great for Magic Tricks. With this deck, you'll get two jokers, and on the front of it is a turkey, which, of course, is very colonial. It does make you think of early America and Thanksgiving. Also, with this deck, you get a custom ace of spades. Very patriotic, has the amber waves of grain there on the side, and the center pip is emblazed with the stars and stripes. Your court cards are very stylized, almost cartoony. They do depict different types of people and caricatures of vintage Americana, vintage colonialism, and they are all done in very traditional Americana colors. Your pips and indices are all going to appear normal to the lay person, but to maybe a card collector or someone who has a sharper eye, you'll notice that the font in the corner is a little different, and all the pips are a little fatter, a little chunkier, and more widely spaced apart. All right, so that's my review of the Union deck from J. Fletcher and Theory 11. 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 see 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.magicorthodoxy, twitter.com. Slash magic orthodoxy, instagram.com. Slash magic underscore orthodoxy, and if you need more content, you can always find it at magicorthodoxy.com. Thanks, bye.