 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. Hey today we're going to look at the black lions from David Blaine. These are the new black lions since these initial release back in around Christmas time of last year. David has released two additional colors so there is now red, black lions and blue black lions. These cards were designed by Mark Stutzman. Of course you know Mark has done a lot of the graphic design for David Blaine and he's probably most famously known for doing the Elvis stamp. This deck is being printed by the United States playing card company and it's a really cool addition to the Blaine line of decks. The tuck case is all done in a matte black with a gloss black emboss. It also has silver foil stamping all throughout. There's some cool little features on the tuck case. I'll look at a couple of them right now. The first of which is the front of the tuck case is the back design of the cards which is a little opposite for most decks of cards. The back side of the tuck case is what you would think would be the front in that there's like an embossed image of a lion there. You can see that it's done with kind of like the matte and the gloss back to back so that it makes the image and then it says black lions here across the bottom. There's a couple cool little hidden things inside of the tuck case. There's an eight of diamonds reveal underneath the tuck stamp right here. You peel it back. There's a little eight of diamonds reveal. In the main of the lion over on the side right here by his mouth there's a five and a heart so it's a five of hearts reveal there as well. Here on the tuck flap there's a lion that you can see walking in one direction but if you look closely within his legs there's also the shadow or the negative outline of a little baby lion so that's kind of cool. This side of the tuck case has a like a griffin feature and it says that they're designed by David Blaine and Mark Stuckman. The other side says that they were printed from the United States playing card company and the bottom has some ad copy about David Blaine and New York City. It says black lions across the top and it has an original tucked seal that is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards are printed from the United States playing card company and they are done on a casino grade B stock. They also have a traditional cut and they do have air cushion finish and if you'd like to learn more about stock cut or finish you can click the link below in the description. The back design of the Blaine black lions is similar to a couple of other lion or David Blaine decks in that it is the David Blaine logo repeated in a casino style going from corner to corner. It does also have a white border which is similar to a poker card so you kind of get the best of both worlds. Also a thing to note about this back design is that they are reader backs. They do pretty much follow the same suit that David Blaine has used in the past for his reader decks and if you'd like to learn how to read the backs of these cards you can pretty much find that information with a very simple google search. The other thing to note about these cards is that they don't come in new deck order. They actually come in a Mamanica stack. Mamanica is a deck stack used by magicians. It was invented by Juan Tamarid. Of course the purpose behind that is that you can open a sealed deck of cards and give it a false shuffle and then retain it in the Mamanica stack and if you have that stack memorized you'll pretty much know the location of any card and be able to go into some of your very favorite magic routines. With this deck you're going to get two very original very odd looking jokers. It is a lion in a dress holding an eagle or some sort of bird standing on top of a chess board with a pawn chest piece near its feet. The other thing to note is that one of these jokers has a card force in the eagle's mouth. Another one of the extra cards in this deck is a card that has a lion's face on it or is it David Blaine's face? Whoa! Hi, I'm David Blaine. I'm a magic man. I can do tricks. Another one of the cards is a card that has a picture of a bird on it or it's a raven actually I think but it's segmented in corners so that if you tore it up like I did you could put it back and make the shape but then the shape wouldn't be the same as the card started out as it looks like it would be a really cool torn and restored trick. I'm looking forward to maybe seeing David do this in one of his specials but as for now you have a funny torn and restored raven card in your deck. The pips and indices cards in this deck are all completely standard. They are the colors and a pip placement that you're all familiar with and they will be easily recognizable to anyone. Of course the quartz in David Blaine's deck are all custom. These are all friends of David Blaine's. They're all familiar to him. A lot of these spaces have been seen in previous decks and there are a couple of new faces as well. Well that is pretty much it for the David Blaine Black Lions as always we 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. If you want to follow me on social media you can. I'm at facebook.com slash magic orthodoxy twitter.com slash magic orthodoxy and instagram.com slash magic underscore orthodoxy. Thanks.