 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 woodlands deck just released from penguin magic and expert playing cards What is this the woodlands deck is a hundred percent? Custom deck of playing cards. It perfectly captures the feeling of just strolling through the forest You know just walking through the woods. The entire deck has a really natural very earthly Full bleed background. It's got a really cool like parchment color and texture and the deck is all Encased in this beautiful side opening tuck box And then that is wrapped around with this really elegant tree branch design this deck And so this deck the woodlands deck was designed by quitty Zhang and you can learn more about them and their work at the Website so like I said, this is a sideways tuck meaning that it opens sideways, right Okay, and it does have that tree branch design wrapping all the way around it So it kind of makes for a really cool theme You don't have a lot of text on the sides and that's cool Kind of lets the art speak for itself has an original tuck seal there on the back with a little tree on there And this is the back side of the deck says woodlands playing cards down here at the bottom And then the front of the tuck case is all sideways going and it says you know woodlands playing cards as well again Nothing on the sides does say a little bit of ad copy about penguin magic and expert playing cards there at the bottom and Then on the inside tuck flaps everything's just Clean and normal so that's pretty much it for the tuck case Let's take a look at these cards these cards come from the expert playing card company And people always ask how these cards feel how these cards handle I can't really tell you how they Handle because that's kind of a subjective opinion But what I can tell you is how thick they are these cards are actually a little bit thicker stock They're bordering closer to a casino grade stock. So it's a thicker stock. This deck isn't really printed with any white showing You can see it's that parchment yellow that goes and makes the border there And then you have that same parchment color on the face Okay, so there's not any stark whites You have a definite earth tone feel to this the back design Features this deep green color and this owl theme So you have the owl face there on the top and bottom with a two-way image And then you have some vine work wrapping around there a couple of birds and a crescent moon With this deck you get two original jokers one is an owl sitting on a branch with a couple of birds Floating over a full moon and then the second one is a crescent moon And it looks like a bird just perched on a little hill of dirt amidst some grass your ace of spades is very simple I'm very elegant. It is a tree. Okay, it's a stark tree probably during fall There was no leaves on it and the tree branches help make the spade tip So that's really cool and then off in the distance. You have three lonely white stars the pips and indices cards are custom Okay, but they're gonna look Standard they they did a really good job Making these look as close to standard as possible But with a really good eye you'll see that the pips are a little bit enlarged and they have a little bit more of Thicker stock in some places and then thinner line work in others So you do see the originality there the red is a little deeper than a bright red and so they are original tips But it's a familiar layout also with the courts They are originals as well And so you're gonna notice right away that the colorings are you know that same dark green and the browns and the blacks To pick up the colorings of the deck But then you'll notice the faces are very old-fashioned But you also see that they do have the same feel and the same familiarity that you are already familiar with With the standard courts. All right, so that is the woodlands playing cards from Kuizang expert playing cards and a penguin magic If you like these they are on sale right now at penguin magic And if you really like them you better hurry up and get them because they only printed 3,000 as always I want to thank penguin magic and Kevin Rylock for allowing me to have this deck So I could do the review for you and if you'd like to purchase your own you can find it at penguin magic calm Thanks. Bye