 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is the deck review. Hey today, we're gonna look at the black bicycle 808s from the United States playing card company. Hey, basically, this is just a recolor. You know, this is just your black version of your standard 808 rider backs. And I know you've seen rider backs before and I know you've seen recolors before and you know, here's the thing about recolors. A lot of people they kind of get all bent out of shape and they say I don't like recolors And they feel like they're just lazy or you know, they would say well I wish people would put more effort instead of just changing the color of the deck And you know, I think one of the things that people don't always understand or realize about recolors is You know, sometimes people use a deck as their standard go-to deck You know, they use that deck over and over again and that you know, it eventually wears out And they want to buy it again, and then a lot of deck runs are Limited in that they don't get reprinted, you know United who's playing card company they have their smallest run is 2,500 decks and their next Highest up from that is 5,000. So, you know, when you think about it, you know 2,500 decks could get sold out very easily And then if I want to go and purchase this deck again, you know, what are my options? Well, a lot of times what a designer will do is instead of releasing the same exact deck Exactly the same as before which would be the laziest route, right instead of doing that They offer a recolor and they just spruce it up a bit and they just you know, they give it a little bit of Oomph, and so I think I don't I don't think it's that bad. I don't mind recolors So, you know, the United States playing card company does it all the time You know, you can buy a bicycle rider back deck just about any color you can dream of they even have a rainbow color deck So, you know, I'm not a person that thinks recolors are a bad thing. So let me tell you a little bit about this deck I got this deck from Target came in a four-pack. I think I had two blacks and then a red and a blue. Okay, so that's how I was able to get it I think they came out in 2013 originally and so when I measure 10 of these I measure 10 of these in the caliper It comes out to 2.87 now 2.87 is pretty significant because This is the Retail stock right 2.87 should be the retail stock a long time ago Bicycles used to measure at 2.94 So, you know, you ask PCC is getting thinner and thinner and thinner all the time 2.87 is about the same thickness as the black lions or the craft beer deck that bicycle put out a while ago The first edition split spades are the same thickness the purple LTD's The never-forgotten project that expert playing cards put out the icon or the Arcos are all 2.87 I picked this up because I like black back designs. I like black back decks And so if you do too, just maybe keep an eye out for the black version of the rider and away deck from United's plate card company Thanks. Bye