 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 SWE deck from MadisonPresentsandAllusionist.com. What is SWE? SWE is the monogram for SW Ergnaze, who would be the author of the Expert at the Card Table. Now, if you don't know what the Expert at the Card Table is, good! It's a magic book. Actually, to be more accurate, it's actually a book about a sleight of hand card cheating, just any kind of playing card agility. Expert at the Card Table is still considered to be an essential reading for any card magician. The book sometimes is lovingly referred to by card sharks as the Bible. Sometimes it's just called Ergnaze, but it's pretty much been in continual publication since 1902. Now, nobody knows who SW Ergnaze is or was. It's one of the mysteries that keeps perpetuating in the magic community, and there's been several people that have been trying to determine who he was. If you look at SW Ergnaze and you look at it backwards, it actually spells ES Andrews, and that has led a lot of people to try to figure out who this Andrews person might be. There's been some speculation that the author of the book is actually Milton Franklin Andrews. There's also Wilbur Edgerton Sanders, who's also a contender to be the author, and so I think anybody who's had a history with playing cards or playing card manipulation or card charquery has probably picked up the expert at the card table at least once and thumbed through it. I know that even Steve Martin had said that if he could have one book on a deserted island, he would pick the expert at the card table just to keep his mind sharp. Alright, so like I said, these cards were released by Madison Presents and Illusionist.com. The front of the tuck case and the coloring throughout are indicative of the original hardback green book. This says SWE and playing cards 1902 across the front, and then you have an illustration from the inside of the book there. As with all other Madison decks, the sides are very clean, very simple. You've got the Madison logo there at the bottom. You have the Illusionist logo there on the bottom there, and the back design of the tuck case is of course the back design of the cards. As well as kind of a picture of what the book looks like originally in its hardback form. That is pretty much it for the tuck case. Now let's take a look at these cards. These cards were printed from the United States Playing Card Company, and they are exactly what you would expect from a Q1 quality control. These are a thicker stock. I would almost guess that they probably are the casino grade stock or the B grade stock. Illusionist didn't really give any clues to that, but it definitely feels like the thicker grade stock. So I'm going to get after these are B stocks with Eric Christian Finish and Modern Cut. And if you'd like to learn more about stock cut or finish, you can click the link below in the description. Like I said before, the back design of the cards is an homage to the book. It is of course a two-way back design, and you kind of have to do that. But you have a little medium-sized border there to kind of highlight or illustrate the front of the expert at the card table book, and then you have the little symbols there of the acorns, which are kind of seen throughout the book. With this deck, you're going to get a couple of things. The first of which is you're going to get a cut card. This is a casino cut card. You've seen some of these in Madison's other decks, and kind of what you do is you stick this on the bottom of the deck like this so that when you're dealing and you're playing a card game, if you flash, you're not going to show the bottom card. The cut card just says SWE at the top, has the ad copy logos down there at the bottom, and it is blank on the back side. Your ace of spades is a nice big fatty ace that is probably indicative to a lot of the Madison presents decks of cards. You can see some words in there. That is the actual text from the preface from the expert at the card table. It does at the bottom say SWE, and the United States playing card company there underneath the ace. You're also going to get a double backer, which is always nice. And with this deck, you're going to get two almost identical jokers. It is a drawing from the book. This is figure 25, and they're only minutely different. This one is the actual drawing from the book, and then this one is the drawing plus a card reveal. Your Pips and Indicee cards are all completely standard and easily recognizable. Now, if you're already familiar with Madison Quartz, you already know that he likes to change up the faces, and the SWE deck is no exception. You're going to have brand new original faces on a lot of these court cards. And you're also going to see the green and the yellow from the deck spread across the court cards clothing. Some of them are new faces, some of their old faces. You're going to see Laura London again. Of course, you're going to see Daniel Madison, Jeff Leonza, even makes an appearance, Billy Kidd, and a couple of other brand new people that I'm sure you will recognize. At the time of its release, Madison Presents also did one of the cool thing. They inserted kind of a Willy Wonka contest. A golden ticket is inserted into one lucky expert at the card table, SWE deck. And if you are the recipient of that gold ticket, you'll get 144 of these decks of cards from our illusionist. So the odds of winning of that are one in a thousand, but it certainly makes for a really fun contest, and I'm sure it'll sell a lot of decks. All right, so that is it for the SWE deck. And as always, we recommend that you like this video just so other people can find it faster. 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