 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name's David and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Black Scorpion deck from Magic Makers. All right, so what is the Black Scorpion deck? The Black Scorpion deck is basically it's a deck built from magicians. Magic Makers makes a lot of different types of gaff decks, card tricks, and the like. And so this deck was designed by a gentleman named Rob Stiff, down at Magic Makers, and it's printed by the United States playing card company. This tuck case and cards pretty much looks like a standard deck of Ryderbacks. There's a bicycle in the front and playing cards down at the bottom, but this one does say Black Scorpion deck and there's a picture of a scorpion on it. You'll notice that the cards are all done in a black and yellow, almost a negative coloring effect, you know the negative effect that you would get if you reverse the polarity on your picture, kind of like that. But instead of the red and white that you would see on a standard 808 Ryderback, you're getting the black and yellow. This side says that they are the Black Scorpion deck. The other side says that they are Eric Christian Finish and made in the USA. Bottom has an ad copy of course and the top is pretty generic with a standard bicycle seal. The back design is of course the back design of the cards and that is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. Like I said, these cards are printed from the United States playing card company and they are done on their retail stock. I would say I think they're retail stock. They do have a modern cut and an Eric Christian Finish and if you'd like to learn more about stock cut or finish, you can click the link below in the description. All right, so 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 tell you how they would compare against other cards made by the same company. And so if I take 10 of these cards and put them into a caliper, I get a 2.87 measurement. Now 2.87 is really vague for USPCC. It could be a really thick retail stock. It could be a really thin casino stock. USPCC isn't always consistent with their stock, so 2.87 I would say is about middle. It's a middle grade. It's going to be the same thickness as the Split Spades, same thickness as maybe the Arco Deck or the Purple LTDs. As you can see, the back design is the standard Rider Back 808 deck and like I said, instead of a white border, you get black. So these are a black back black faced deck and it has that reverse polarity look to it where the design is all done out in this gold. With this deck, you're going to get a couple of extra cards and they're all going to be based off of the Scorpion theme. The first switch is you'll get a standard one. You'll get one standard Joker that does say Joker and has a Scorpion on there and then the rest of the cards are all going to be your gas. Now normally in a Magic Deck what you'd find is that they would put your card reveal on two Jokers. What Magic Makers has done and I think this is pretty cool is they've put it on your Ace of Spades. So they're actually giving you two more two additional Ace of Spades that are custom. One is the Scorpion holding the back design of the cards and then the other one is the card reveal. Of course that means your Ace of Spades will match those gas and it's just the Scorpion there in the center instead of a pip. For the most part, your Pipsand indices are completely standard other than a color change. So like I said they are black faces but then you'll have gold coloring instead of the black and you'll have white coloring instead of the red. Your core cards also have that reverse polarity kind of ghost image look to them and then they only have a couple of colors. So the white, the gold that you already see in the deck and then a little hint of blue. Alright so that's my review of the Black Scorpion deck from Magic Makers. 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 in cards and card magic. If you want to follow me on social media you can. I'm at facebook.com slash magicorthodoxy twitter.com slash magicorthodoxy instagram.com slash magic underscore orthodoxy and if you need more content you can always find it at magicorthodoxy.com. Thanks, bye.