 Hey everybody, welcome back to my Diffrithodoxy. My name is David and this is the Deck Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Danny de Ortiz knock deck from the Blue Crown. What is this? This is the second in the line of the Signature series that was originally started with Alex Pendrea. You might remember Alex Pendrea released his white knocks and it was a sideways cut just like this all in case in black and it had Alex's signature right here. Well, this is more of an aqua color or a turquoise color and you can see right here in gold there's Danny de Ortiz's signature. Now if you don't know who Danny de Ortiz is, he's only one of the most brilliant minds in card magic. He's Spanish, like I said, he focuses mostly on cards but he does a lot of close-up. If you know who like Juan Tamarí is, Danny de Ortiz is probably like a close second to him. He's got so many publications to his credit. He's even the editor of a Spanish magic magazine that focuses on articles of lasting depth on some of the most foremost figures and milestones in magic. Hello guys, I'm Danny de Ortiz and this is a video only for say thank you very much to the guy from the Blue Crown. This is the new project. This is the de Ortiz knock. This is unbelievable for me. This is a very nice deck. If you have a knock, you know what I am talking about. This is a very, very, very good quality and very beautiful color for me. I choose this color. You know what is the quality of this deck. One more time. Again, thank you very much to the guy from the Blue Crown. Thank you very much from your friends Danny de Ortiz. The tech case on this, very similar to the first signature, is a sideways tuck edition and it does have a two in gold foil right there to indicate that this is the second deck. It has Danny de Ortiz's signature right there and then embossed on the matte face. It says NOC for knock. Other than that, there's just a solid gold stripe that goes around the tuck case and then on the bottom there's some ad copy about expert playing cards and house of playing cards. The inside tuck flap right here has a little quote from Danny and it says dedicated to all my friends in magic. 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 expert playing card company and they are done on their very slick, very thick paper stock. If you've ever had the knock cards from experts before, you kind of already know how these feel and handle. Like all the previous knock decks, the back design is a solid field of color. Although the signature decks, the border is a lot smaller. As you can see, the back design mirrors the tuck case. It's just a solid field of that same aqua color and then you have a very small thin black border that goes around that and it kind of frames it all in. The interesting thing to note about these, you might remember the previous knock decks versions one through three. They're all marked decks so that you can read the color. So you'd know whether it's red or black, but these are fully marked. So you will be able to read these and know like you would look at this and say, this is the ace of hearts and it is. I knew that though because I could see it. Right. Okay. These are fully marked meaning that not only are you getting the color but you're getting the suit and you're getting the numeric as well. With the purchase of this deck, you will also receive a PDF that tells you how to read these cards. Right now though, on the blue pound, these cards are sold out. And so if you were to purchase these from another dealer, say like on eBay or another car retailer, you might want to ask if you're getting the PDF or read these as well. This deck comes with your two very familiar jokers for the knock series. They are simply a black five planet star. Your ace of spades is the traditional knock ace, nice big thick chunky pip that reads minimal playing cards down the middle. The rest of the deck, all the indices, all the courts, all the faces, they're all going to be completely standard and easily recognizable. This is because the blue crown really, their target audience is magicians. And so what they do is they manufacture cards for magicians. Even though a lot of card collectors and a lot of cardists and flourishers enjoy these cards, the blue crown I think focuses primarily on magicians. Alex Pandrea is a magician himself. And so most magicians prefer faces that aren't busy or that their spectators will be able to recognize. The great thing about the large field on the back also is magicians often write things on cards. And so that is a really beautiful canvas that you can write your phone number down on or a prediction or you know, you do a drawing duplication. There's a lot of really great things that you can do with the solid field. And if you'd like to learn some of those great ideas, you can actually check out our original review that we did for Alex's white deck. And there's some cool ideas there as well. Other than that, there's no extra cards, there's no gas, there's no ad cards. It's just a straightforward deck of cards. All right, so that is our deck review for the Danny de Orte's Aqua Nox version two signature edition playing cards from expert playing cards company. I always 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. Now, 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. Bye.