 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 Dynasty playing cards from Brendan Hong and the expert playing card company. Alright, so what are the Dynasty cards? Dynasty was originally a Kickstarter project. It was successfully funded, and there were two decks in this. There was the green, and then there was the red. And what this is, it is a unique playing card series that's inspired by Brendan's Chinese culture, his heritage, and it's designed and illustrated by him completely. Now, if you remember, Brendan used to work for Kingswild, Kingswild project with Jackson Robinson. He created the Hive decks. And so what he's done is he's taken the Chinese elements. He's combined it with the traditional style of playing cards. Okay, so Suicide King, One Eye Jacks, all that. He's taken that, and then this deck is now a fusion of both worlds. So he's making something completely unique. He's infusing what you and I consider traditional playing cards with Brendan's very unique style of illustration. So, like I said earlier, there's two decks in this series. There's the Jade Green, which was an unlimited run. He made enough for everyone who backed, and then a little extra. And then the red deck, the red deck was a limited run. There was only a thousand of those printed. Both decks have their own unique elements. And I think they appeal to regular playing card users, flourishers, magicians, collectors, you name it. Both these decks were printed from the expert playing cards with their classic finish. And it is a wonderful embossed finish and stock. And it feels great straight out of the box. The cards have a nice spring. They flex well. They feel good even when they're broken in. In this review, we're going to look at the green deck. As you can see, the front of the tuck case just says Dynasty. And this is all a flat tuck case. But it does have these silver embellishments. And you see a triangle symbol right there in the center. This side says Dynasty playing cards. This side says Design by Brendan Hong. You have an original numbered tuck seal right here on the tongue flap. And the bottom has some ad copy about Brendan Hong. The back design, of course, is the back design of the cards. And the tongue flap also has a lot of ornamentation on it. And when you lift it up, you can see that the inside of the tuck box is printed on it as well. That is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. Like I said, these cards are printed from the experts playing card company. And they are done on their classic finish. Now, a lot of people always ask how these cards feel, how they handle. These cards are a little on the thicker side. They're right on the edge of being a casino grade stock. They're about the same stock and thickness as the crown cards or the miscellaneous good cards if you have those. The back design has a nice thick poker border. But you can see that it's broken in the illustration. So it kind of creates the illusion that there's more to the design. It's touching. It's breaking out. You also see that on the top and bottom, it goes all the way to the edge. That creates a very nice cigar band look. And so when you spread it out, either left or right or up to down, you'll see that cigar band throughout. And then the back design, of course, you can see a lot of that really beautiful Chinese elements. With this deck, you're going to get two original jokers. One done in a green costume and the other in yellow. The character in green is holding a pike. And the one in yellow is holding a bow and arrow. Your ace of spades is the most ornate ace in the deck. And as you can see, it has a silhouette of the back design. They're in the center of the spade pip. Down at the bottom there, it just says Dynasty playing cards designed by Brandon Hong. The pips and indices all have a very familiar layout. But all of them have been redesigned and redrawn by Brandon. So you're going to have just his unique illustration, his unique look. He's actually gone through and redone every single design for the four suits. And it has his own original font in the corners. The quartz in this deck are something that I think is really the pinnacle of the illustrations in this. They're really the thing that stands out the most. The illustrations in this are very beautiful. And you'll notice that each little grouping, each little suit, they kind of go together. And so they kind of all have the same colorings. And they all either come from the same clan or the same family. I really, really love Brandon Hong's illustration. The work on Heated on this is amazing. Alright, so that is my review for the green Dynasty playing cards from Brandon Hong and the expert playing card company. 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