 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Wrath of Doxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the United Cartist 2016 annual deck. All right, so this is a current Kickstarter. On Kickstarter right now, you can go over to Kickstarter and look for it. You can back it and be a supporter of it. This what I have here is a prototype deck. This prototype was made from MPC, which is makeplayingcarts.com. It is an appearance what the final product will be, but not in paper stock or finish. This is just a prototype. The UC 2016 annual deck is called the Nouveau. The Nouveau deck. Nouveau was actually a previous Kickstarter. It was actually a previous Kickstarter twice before. Both times it was unsuccessfully funded, but the tuck case has been redesigned. The aces, the back of the cards has been redesigned and it's now being released as the United Cartist 2016 annual deck and it's gaining a lot of momentum and a lot of people are saying really positive things about it. This deck of cards was designed by Karen Yan of Bonafide Playing Cards. Bonafide Playing Cards are out in Barcelona. The deck is done in the inspiration of the Nouveau art style. All right, so the Nouveau deck is inspired by mythological and historical heroes and heroines. Originally, when the first deck of cards was released, at least as far as what we know, many of the court cards, the Kings, Queens and Jacks, were inspired by heroes, heroines, people from mythology. And so that is what they are trying to do and recapture with the Nouveau deck. Now the Nouveau movement as an art movement, that came out of the French culture around the 16th century. And so this deck certainly has a French art Nouveau or a 16th century style. What you're getting here from Bonafide is a completely customized 100% original deck of cards. The front of this tech case just simply says Nouveau and you can see all the different greens, turquoises, kind of grassy colors that are going throughout this tech. It says United Cardis 2016 and playing cards on this side. It says Nouveau UC United Cardis 2016. Same on the back. The bottom of the prototype doesn't have any text and the top basically says the same thing. And the back design of the prototype of course is the back design of the cards. And so that is it for the tech case of the prototype. Let's take a look at these cards. Again, I just want to repeat that this is a prototype and so we don't know what the final product will look like. More than likely, it'll probably be very similar to this. One of the things that people have been most impressed with is that razor thin border that you can see right there. I don't think I have ever reviewed a deck that has a border that thin. And I know I've said razor thin border before in the past, but man, I don't think you can get much more thinner than that. If I spread them out and try to get it really tight, you can actually see just how tight that is. Like that is crazy, crazy tight. The back design, again, has that Art Nouveau, very French inspiration. Kind of looks like vinework. Also kind of has this feel of maybe even like stained glass windows kind of. In the corner, you can see the U for United Cardis. That's one of the new features. And it also has the year of 2016 in Roman numerals there in the ring. Again, because this is a prototype, we don't really know all the bells and whistles that will come with the deck. This prototype features two original jokers. They're both different. And again, because it's a French inspired deck, they're going with gestures. They do court gestures. So one of these gestures has like a mandolin or a lute or a lyre. And the second one is more the harlequin, you know, the sad and the or the happy. And this one kind of looks more sad. And at the top, it does say United Cardis 2016 annual deck. Here's a close up look at your four aces, your ace of spades, your ace of hearts, your ace of clubs, and your ace of diamonds. All right. So since each one of the court cards represents a different historical or mythological figure, I thought I would go through them and just show you who they are. So this would be the king of spades. And he represents King David from the Bible. And this is the queen of spades. And she represents the Greek goddess Athena. The jack of spades is the character Osir the Dane. And here we have the king of hearts. He's King Charlemagne. And the queen of hearts. This is Judith from the Bible. The jack of hearts is a French military commander who I probably can't pronounce the name. It's the king of diamonds. This is the Roman leader, Julia Caesar. The queen of diamonds. This is Rachel. She's also from the Bible. The jack of diamonds. This is Prince Hector from break mythology. And the king of clubs. This is the great King Alexander the Great. The queen of clubs is the Celtic Queen Bodica. And the jack of clubs is the legendary Lancelot. When this deck is funded, it'll be printed by the expert playing card company. And it will use their master stock and finish. Well, that is it for the Nouveau deck for the United Cardis 2016 annual deck. And like I said, if this is something that interests you or if you like this style, definitely head on down to Kickstarter and back it today.