 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Retrodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. Magicians. A young card master will bring them to justice. Introducing the world's first comic book series, printed on a deck of playing cards. Magicians must die. We're going to look at the Magicians must die deck. This is volume four. This is the fourth deck in a series. This deck was produced from hand lords and it was illustrated by Jay Pateris. Now if you don't know about the Magicians must die series, the Magicians must die series is the world's first comic book. It's the world's first comic series that's printed entirely on a deck of cards. This unique deck of cards, it's got custom ace of spades, it's got custom jokers, and the backs, if you turn them all over and lay them out, they make this really giant sized poster sized comic. Now the comic, if you haven't read it, it's all about Magicians and it's about playing card masters. It's all hand drawn and it's all inked by Jay Pateris and it's produced like I said by hand lords. Now if you don't remember hand lords, hand lords pretty much started card manipulation way back in the day. It used to be called XCM, which was extreme card manipulation. Now it's called Flourishing. It was started way back in 2001 and so they are the ones behind this really cool deck. Now like I said this is the fourth volume in a series and so if you don't have one through three by the time you get to four, you might be a little lost. This would be a really cool deck to purchase in an uncut form. It would make a really cool graphic to have framed on your wall. The tuck case is all just artwork from the comic book and from the comic series. It says M.M.D. Magicians must die. It also has the hand lords logo right there in the corner and it says number four. This side says Magicians must die. This side says comic deck. Here's some ad copy about hand lords and on the top it says M.M.D. and then the artwork graphic here is just art and graphic from the cards. All right so that is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards were printed from the United States playing card company and they do come on their famous snappy retail stock. They do have air cushion finish and they do have a modern cut and if you'd like to learn more about stock cut or finish you can click the link below in the description. Now like I said earlier the back design, each one's going to be completely different. You can see it does have a gray border but each one is a panel or it's going to be part of a panel that when assembled together will make this really cool hand illustrated comic book. This deck comes with two identical jokers the first of which is just two beautiful girls just hanging out just looking pretty and there's no coloring there it's just an ink drawing and then the other joker kind of looks like the green goblin but it's just some sort of a specter holding a spear and as you can see the spear has kind of like maybe a diamond drawn out in blood on the spade tip. The ace of spades is a gentleman doing a back arched leap over a upside down spade pip and then throwing some cards. He could also be upside down I guess doing a flip. The pips and the indices cards in this deck are all completely standard and easily recognizable. The core cards in this deck are all completely standard however they've been recolored just to use the red and black of the comic series. You'll also notice that the pip there has been outlined in red and so that's pretty cool too. Your two extra cards are ad cards the first of which is a little ad card that tells you a little bit about the Magician's Must Die series. The second ad card is a layout so it tells you exactly how to lay the cards out so that you know how to put the comic book back in order just in case you shuffle them. Alright so that is my review of the Magician's Must Die Volume 4 comic book series deck of cards. This deck was provided very generously for us from Murphy's Magic Supplies and if you'd like to purchase your own you can find that one of your favorite from Murphy's Magic Suppliers. Thanks, bye.