 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 butterfly playing cards from Andre Seneca. Alright, so what are the butterfly cards? Well right now currently they are a Indiegogo crowdfunding project You can go out to Indiegogo right now and search for butterfly playing cards and you will see Andre's campaign and These cards were designed by a friend of Andre's a gentleman Who is a designer and magician named Stefan Ericsson this right here? This is a prototype these were printed from Cardamundi and the Actual deck will later be printed by Cardamundi as well And these come from their Belgium printing plant and so the tech case is really simple in design Simply has a black icon of a butterfly there in the center and the entire deck is wrapped in white With a blue and red band there at the bottom The bottom has some ad copy about butterfly playing cards and the top just simply says Butterfly playing cards the only ornamentation there is on the tuck flap right here Which is a little bit of a hint of the back design of the cards and that's pretty much it for the tuck case Let's take a look at these cards in the past. I can't say I've ever been super impressed with Cardamundi card stock, but these cards feel Fantastic These cards are supple and soft. They're buttery. They're easy to shuffle I asked Andre if the actual cards when they're printed will feel and handle like this and he assures me that the stock itself Will be a little thicker, but they'll still have that soft buttery feel So I am really looking forward to that back design has a butterfly both on the top and bottom in bold And then all around it you have a bunch of flora and fauna You can see that it is a casino card It is printed all the way to the edge with a full bleed and that helps With a lot of what this deck has to offer if you have a really sharp eye You can see that this is a one-way Back design and there are a couple of other hidden gems in there as well There is a unique Marking system hidden in the back design of the butterfly playing cards They're actually going to contain two different marking systems and you can use those two different systems separately, but together combined They will really make you a miracle card worker if magic is what you are interested in So like just think about this. Well imagine that you could perform Tricks that used to only be possible By memorizing a deck, but now you can do it with a shuffled deck of cards The butterfly cards enable you to see the position of any Spectators card in a shuffled deck. I mean think about what that means. That means you could shuffle the cards yourself Have a card selected Have the card returned Hand the deck to the spectator. They could shuffle it and when they give it back to you You could immediately locate it and then bring it to the top or bottom That in itself is amazing and that's not even that's not even combined with the marking system That's just a locator. Okay, so you're getting a locator and you're getting the marking system These cards were designed with two main goals in mind one They had to be complex and irregular enough to disguise any of the markings so that laymen or magicians couldn't find them and secondly They had to be pretty enough to justify their use over a common deck of cards that you might already have With this deck you're going to get a couple of things One of them is an advertisement card that explains how to use the marking system But I won't show it to you And on the other side there's a sample of what this deck would look like in red Which is actually one of the Indiegogo Stretch goals with my prototype deck. I got two jokers that were completely identical It's the black butterfly logo with the word joker up in the corners And then I was also given a third joker, which is more of the pattern Butterfly there in the center your ace of spades is simple But yet ornate the spade pip is made up of all of the back design pattern and it does say butterfly playing cards there at the bottom and then if you fan through the Quartz pips and Indie cards, you'll see that they are all completely standard and instantly Recognizable for gameplay and magic. Alright, so that is the butterfly playing cards currently on Indiegogo If this looks like it would be interesting to you. If you're a flurisher, I think the full bleed makes for great fans and really cool Flourishing tricks. I think if you're a magician, you're gonna want this because just the marking system and the locator system alone Combined with the one-way back design. I think makes this a killer Deck for magic. This is only going to take your magic up a notch Any current magic tricks that you're doing this deck is going to improve it times a hundred So definitely head on down to Indiegogo check out the butterfly playing cards campaign from Andre Seneca and back it Support it give him your love buy a brick. I love this deck. I think it's great I think it's a great campaign great deck of cards. Like I said, it feels great Oh my gosh the stock on this feels great Can't wait to see what the finished project look like. Alright a huge Thank you to Andre Seneca for allowing me to have this deck so that I can do the review for you 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 You want to follow me on social media? 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