 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is the deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Casino Royale cards from Bomb Magic and the Taiwan playing card company. Alright, so what is Casino Royale? Casino Royale is a deck of cards that was made to demonstrate a certain paper-pulping technology for casino quality playing cards. Bomb Magic is trying to get on the scenes, just like other card companies, as being a reputable card producer. And they're using the Taiwan playing card company, the same card company that Legends and Expert has been using. And so they're using the word Royale as a fancy word because it's always been associated with some of the best casinos and obviously it's associated with the movie. And so this is supposed to be a stylish deck of casino cards. So it's not standard, okay? It's supposed to look like a stylish deck of casino cards. And even from the front of the tuck ace, you can see the little cutaway. That's indicative of casino decks. They always have that little cutaway there. And so this is kind of more like a prototype. It's like a this is what we can do kind of deck. And so it's really made to show off the paper and just the quality of cards that they can produce. This first edition of Casino Royale, it's the summer spring and it's called the Bright Edition. And so what they're showing off here is the royal finish that's on the service layer. They want to show you how well these cards span and how they don't feel greasy or you know, they don't feel cheaply made. Later on their hope is to release an autumn winter edition that'll be called Mystic. And they'll hope to do that at the end of the year. And so stay tuned for that. So the tuck ace all around is made to look exactly like a casino deck. It says Casino Royale has a little cutaway. And it says casino quality down here at the bottom. This side says Stymond back standard edition. This side says bomber playing card company. The bottom says royal finish. And the back has a scannable UPC and it says proud to be royal. The tongue flap has a little bit of ad copy. And that is pretty much it for the tuck ace. Let's take a look at these cards. Like I said, these cards come from the Taiwan playing card company and they are a nice medium grade stock. When you measure these with a caliper, they come out to about 2.97, which is just a little under what you might consider a casino card. Casino cards usually measure at 3.0 and above. So 2.97 would be a thin casino thickness. These are about the same thickness as the blood kings if you're familiar with that. Cards really do feel different. I could tell that right away when I picked them up. I knew immediately that this wasn't a United States playing card company deck. They smell different, feel different. They have a different snap to them. They even have a different surface texture. So it's really interesting. So I do like the corners. I do like the edges. This is a fun deck to pick up. So the back design is a diamond pattern that you would see on other casino cards. However, it looks like a circus. Well, it looks like a circus exploded kind of. I mean, there's diamonds all over and it is a repeating pattern. It is a two-way image, but it's just missing some diamonds, it's got some holes. And then of course it has the white bordered back design, which is also not seen on a lot of casino decks. Most casino decks don't have a border, but some do. And so this is their take. This is their take on what a casino back would look like. With this deck, we're going to get two original jokers. They look like clowns who are playing soccer with bombs is what it looks like. So I mean, that would go along with the name, Bomb Magic, or the Bomb Playing Card Company. And so yeah, it's these clowns that are wearing sport uniforms. And instead of balls, they're kicking their old school like circus looking cartoon clown bombs. So your four aces are all the same. They're all exploded pips made to look like they're made out of crystals or diamonds in the two different colors. And it looks like pieces of them are shattering away and coming off. All the pips and indices cards are completely normal and will be instantly recognizable to anyone. The court cards do have a standard look to them, but they've been recolored in this turquoise color and this red color. And if you look a little closer, you'll actually notice that each court is holding a diamond or some sort of crystallized object. All right. So that is my review for the Casino Royale Deck from Bomb Magic and the Taiwan Playing Card Company. As always, I want to thank RarePlayingCards.com for providing these decks for me so that I could do these reviews for you. And if you would like to find these decks or any others, please visit RarePlayingCards.com. Thanks. Bye.