 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review Hey today, we're gonna look at the mandalas playing cards from Damien O'Brien and the United States playing card company This is a really cool deck both for magic and for flourishing. You want to check out the trailer? This is it All right, so that was Damien O'Brien and if you don't know who Damien O'Brien is He is the star of BBC Three's killer magic. He is also a member of the 52 All right, so these cards are inspired after the mandala pattern the mandala design Which is really this design right there on the tuck case the mandala's primary design is a symbol of spirituality, balance, beauty which this all inspired Damien to include this on his deck plus combined with his love for tattoo art and Just masterfully blending these two different styles together It will obviously carry different meanings from one observer to the next the tuck case is all done in this kind of gloss black You can see just wrapped around. There's really nothing on it. It's very minimalistic You get a little bit of ad copy there at the bottom and it simply says mandalas at the top You have the two mandala designs on the back and that is pretty much it for the tuck case Let's take a look at these cards these cards are printed from the United States playing card company on a thin Bee stock now a lot of people always ask how these cards feel how they handle And really what I can do is measure them with a caliper and give you my best estimate Has to how they might feel compared to other decks that you might own or have previously handled So what I do is I take ten cards ten cards is my standard and I put that into a caliper And I measure that out and so these cards come to two point eight two, which is like I said It's a thin bee stock They're gonna be on par with some of the knock decks The red bar deck or the spring deck maybe that you picked up Sons of Liberty that Dan and Dave put out on the auto bike back reprint The back design is a giant field of black with a thin white poker border And then you have the two repeating patterns images of the mandala at the top and the bottom with this deck You're gonna get two gas cards You're gonna get a double back her and a blank face which are great for magic tricks with this deck You'll also get two original jokers. It's a tattoo needle with the words joker in the corner One of these jokers if you look real closely has a card reveal your mandala ace of spades is a beautiful image It's a really big exploded design there in the center using various like tattoo imagery to make this spade Icon and underneath that it says mandalas by Damien O'Brien Your pips and indices cards are gonna be completely standard and instantly recognizable the black cards will be completely normal I think the red cards have a more muted look to them It's a much deeper shade of red your court cards are all gonna be unique to this deck The Kings Jacks and the Queen of Clubs are all various members of the 52 and Damien's in there somewhere And then the other Queens are members of Damien's family All right So that is my review of the mandalas from Damien O'Brien and the United States playing card company as always I want to thank rare playing cards comm for allowing me to have this deck so that I could do the review for you And if you would like to pick up this deck or any of your other favorites, you can always find them at rare playing cards comm Thanks. Bye