 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 architect deck from Jared Hansen and Penguin magic. What is the architect? Basically, it's a deck that Jared Hansen designed He actually first released this back on Kickstarter. It was unsuccessful But Jared Hansen is pretty prolific. He's actually designed quite a few decks. And so he now has a really good relationship with Penguin magic and so Penguin magic has actually picked up a few of his designs and you'll be seeing them in the coming months Through the Penguin magic website and through their card club The inspiration for this deck is it was designed from the ground up to resemble a blueprint So the architect features a contemporary Refined back design. It's filled with modern symbolism while it's reminiscent of more traditional and classic playing cards The tuck case is all done in a matte blue. It's kind of like denim It's really soft does say architect playing cards down there at the bottom And you'll notice that all the writing and all the graphics are all done in a silver foil The back design is very beautiful. That's the back design of the cards on each of the long sides It does a architect playing cards The bottom has some ad copy about Penguin magic and the fact that they were printed by expert playing cards And the tuck flap says blueprint addition right here on the top and then right here on the tuck flap It says form follows function and then also right here on one of the little flaps It does have Jared Hansen's initials that is pretty much it for the tuck case Let's take a look at these cards these cards are printed from the expert playing card company and people always ask How they feel how they handle what the thickness of these cards are when I measure these cards the thickness of them They're kind of about a middle of the road deck When you look at the caliper measurement They actually measure out to be very similar to the red core deck or the red wheel deck or Dan and Dave's Smoking mirrors, so that's about the feel and thickness of those cards if you want to learn more about that You can click some of the links below in the descriptions. I'll take you to some websites They'll tell you a little bit more closely How this deck might feel or handle the architect deck is a wonderful deck of cards I love the stock and feel of this deck. It has a really nice feel it glides well Shuffles well, it's just everything you'd expect from expert playing cards the back design is kind of a light blue and It has a compass a draftsman's compass in each of the corners, and then you have this nice Circular design there in the center. It's very basic very simple, but yet does feel like Architectural blueprint designs of that same blue right and it's that same kind of line drawing So you do kind of get that feeling and then you'll notice that the border is not exactly a thick poker border It's kind of like a middle in between with this deck. You're going to get two full-size very identical jokers It is a draftsman's circle compass, and it does say Joker there down between the two arms And it does keep that same blue color. So you're going to see the same Draftsman's blue throughout the deck your ace of spades depicts Da Vinci's command there at the center And it does say architect playing cards underneath your pips and indices cards are going to be completely standard and Instantly recognizable to anyone your court cards all have kind of an old-timey feel to them They kind of have this feel like they're the archer courts kind of married with the new modern bicycle courts So on the one hand they do still feel traditional and look traditional But on the other hand they kind of have it like a more older more classical look All right So that is my review for the architect deck from penguin magic and Jared Hansen and I want to thank penguin magic and Kevin Rylic for allowing me to have this deck so that I could do a review for you And if you want to purchase your own you can find it right now at penguin magic calm. Thanks. Bye