 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. All right, so today we're going to look at the Uzi Classic. This was a limited edition deck of cards. It was a project on Kickstarter successfully funded. It was released from Uzi. You might remember I did the deck review for Royal Optic and this deck represents the culmination of a six deck project that Uzi embarked on. Aside from Royal Optic, they also have blue blood, they also have pagan, they also have hotcakes and they also have bohemia. And so this is the last of a six deck series. Uzi is Peter Dunham and Linnea Gitz. They are a design firm. They're based out of Chicago. And the cool thing about this deck is really for me was the court cards. This is an entirely hand painted deck. And all right. And so the inspiration for the classic deck came out of the Renaissance period. And so the court cards and all the artwork in this are reminiscent of the Renaissance. Renaissance literally translates as rebirth. And so these are a very classic themed deck. The Kickstarter project did consist of two different decks. There was the blue deck, which was an unlimited run and the red deck, which was the limited run of only 3,500 decks. And so that in between the two colors, the blue and red, for the sake of this review, we will look at the blue deck. The front of the tuck case just says Uzi and classic. And there's a crown there. You can see the outside is very ornate with a frame around it. The backside, again, very ornate framework, very similar to the front. The side on each side is a band and it is simply says 52. The bottom of the tuck case just has some ad copy about the United States playing card company. The top has a band and then of course a original tuck seal. The tuck case is done in a kind of an egg shell off white color. And then the paper itself is kind of a matte finish. It gives it a kind of an older, more nostalgic feel to it. And then the tuck flap, this is really cool. It carries the pattern. So if you look at it really closely, you can see that it all lines up really perfectly, even when it's exposed. So that is a really cool feature as well. The red tuck case is exactly the same, only it's red. And real quick, here's a close up of the red tuck case. That is it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. This deck was printed from the United States playing card company and it was done on their retail stock. It does have a modern cut and it does have air cushion and bossing. If you'd like to learn more about stock cut or finish, you can click the link below in the description. The back design is the same as the back design of the tuck case. Again, very ornate, very rich with Renaissance inspired themes. You got a lot of organic shapes, more rounded edges, more swirls and things that don't have hard edges or hard lines. And you can see that it also has kind of an illusionary border there. It's not a, you know, it's not a perfect frame where it's got edges and straight lines. But you do see that there is a border there and it does make for a really cool back design. The red back design is the same as the blue, except it is red. The faces of the cards have an aged yellowing wash to them. So it kind of adds to that idea that this is an older deck or that it comes from an older era. With this deck, you don't get any gaff cards or add cards, but you do get this really cool diptych. A diptych is two pictures that come together to form a single picture. And it looks like you have two griffons there or two like medieval beasts. And they're facing each other kind of like heralds or guardians. Also with this deck, you got two mirror jokers. It's kind of like a jester who's sitting down. You'll notice that one joker has black font and the other has red. And then the joker is holding a little staff that has the various pipsuits coming out of it. Your ace of spades is really cool. It's got that same kind of griffon beasts there on the left and the right. They have swords piercing the spade. And then there's the crown at the top down here at the bottom. It says Uzi classic and USA. And another really cool ace is the ace of diamonds down here at the bottom. Instead of just the ace pip, you also have a knight on a horse. And it says that these cards are printed by the United States playing card company. The Pippin Embassy cards still carry that Renaissance theme. You'll notice that the pips are a little fatter, a little wider. And then the pip placement is more spread out through the card itself. Then like I said earlier, the court cards, they're all hand painted. And they're all original to this deck. They carry with it the same type of theme that would be indicative of the Renaissance period. And each one of them has a very unique personality and makes for a really striking deck. Here are a couple of the diamonds. Here's a few of the clubs and your cards. 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