 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name's David and this is a Halloween Top 10. Hey that's right, today we're going to look at the Top 10 Halloween decks of this year or, you know, surrounding years. If you know, or have watched my channel in the past, I've done other Halloween Top 10s. I did a Top 13 one time. So I was just going through my decks, you know, a couple days ago and just trying to briefly find out what are some of the Top 10 spooky or Halloween themed decks for this year or, like I said, surrounding years. And so let's get on into it. Number 10, the Magicians Anonymous Cards. The Magician Anonymous Playing Cards were designed and developed as a tribute to the theatrical and mysterious side of magic. These were made by the United States Playing Card Company and they have a luxurious magic finish so they flow in your hands. The haunting yet iconic back design will resonate with everyday workers and card collectors and it includes a blank face, a double back and custom headless jokers. Number nine, the Alan Rourison Sinners. Sinners were printed by the United States Playing Card Company and they bring a touch of the Masonic to the playing card world. To start to finish, it took Alan Rourison over a year to get this deck to the finish results and the deck is full of, like I said, Masonic symbolism and imagery. There's a ghostly green gaff card and the all-seeing eye and jokers that depict the original sin. Number eight, the Steeple Chase Cards from Penguin Magic. These cards were designed by Jared Hansen for Penguin Magic and the Steeple Chase deck is a tribute to Coney Island's original and longest running amusement park. Now, the back design is wildly creepy and vaudevillian and it makes it a perfect deck for Halloween. Number seven, the Killer Bee Deck from Illusionist and Open Jones. Alright, so the Killer Bees are the mutant hybrid of the timid European honeybees and their African cousins and just like all superhero stories, the killers are then introduced to Brazil by mad scientists to help repopulate their diminishing bee population but no one could contain them. And you know what, this is a no-brainer. I mean first, there's a tombstone on one of the jokers and it's got the word killer in the title. Hello. Number six, the Wasteland Deck from Jackson Robinson. Jackson Robinson had this deck of cards inspired by the story and characters of the video game Wasteland 2. It was a Kickstarter project and it's a veritable rogues gallery of monsters, nuns with guns and disturbing babies make this an excellent qualifier. Number five, the Revelation Deck from Deckstarter. Now, you might remember Deckstarter, it was kind of like a URL website that was made to promote and give attention to new designers that wanted to do decks of cards, kind of like Kickstarter but only for decks of cards. The Revelation Deck is two colors, it's crimson and black. Crimson as blood, black as iron. This deck is inspired by the medieval Nidaros Cathedral in Norway. Revelation is a hand-illiterated deck of playing cards featuring gothic details from the catacombs and beautiful stained glass ornamentations. Oh, and did I mention it's covered in skulls and skeletons, a tribute to the Norwegian royalty still resting in the catacombs. Number four, the Darkfall playing cards from Jason Brumbolo. These cards were designed by Jason Brumbolo and they were hand-illustrated by Abraham Garcia. The Darkfall playing cards are a dark and brooding deck filled with steampunk and gothic art from the black crows on the back to the gask-mask jokers and ghostly courts. Darkfall is sure to make your bedbugs bite. Number three, Carpe Noctum from Chris Ramsey. The Carpe Noctum Deck is a celebration of the flower that blooms for no one. It's inspired by the night-blooming Sirius, one of the strangest and most beautiful plants of the desert. The Carpe Noctum Deck unveils its true beauty only after dark. So, dark black deck plus creepy flower equals top ten Halloween decks. Sure, why not? Number two, Memento Mori from Chris Ramsey. Memento Mori, it means remember your mortality and it's steaming from the medieval Latin theory and practice of having one's reflection on their mortality. It has been a ubiquitous part of human culture for centuries from the philosophical to the artistic. The fascination, fear and appreciation of death has consistently captivated and cultivated our imagination. Many practitioners of this theory kept with them artifacts or keepsakes which served as a reminder that the only thing certain in life is death and taxes. And number one, the Halloween Deck from Natalia Silva and Penguin Magic. Hey, we gotta put the Halloween Deck as number one. Halloween is every magician's favorite holiday. In each card face has a unique piece of Halloween themed art ranging from bats to skeletons to candy corn. The unique diptych jokers combined together in one beautiful piece of art while the back design perfectly captures the mood of the spooky season. Alright, so that is it. Your top ten Halloween decks of 2016 and surrounding years. And I hope you enjoyed this top ten. Keep tuning back for more reviews of magic, cards and just whatever tickles my fancy. Happy Halloween everybody.