 Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a gas countdown Hey, that's right. We're gonna count down my favorite gas decks now And this was done because a reader had asked if I would rank my gas decks and obviously I can only rank the gas Decks I own there are other gas decks out there knock black knocks. They have a gas deck. I haven't gotten it yet So there's some other ones out there These are just the seven that I have and so I'm just ranking them number one to seven and That's all I can do, right? So I'll give you a couple of Parameters that I use because people might ask well, why did you do this? Why'd you do that? I'll tell you a little bit parameters, okay? Gaff decks for me gaff cards, especially Really fall into two categories. There's invisible gas and there's visible gas Okay, invisible gas are a card that helps you do a trick But the spectator never sees the card it becomes a utility like a double backer Your spectator should never see or know that you had a double backer in play Okay, that would be an invisible gas card and those I think are the best. All right Then there are visible gas cards cards that have a printed Picture on them that's not familiar to your spectator like hey look It's got a printed quarter on it or a printed different Pip or the king is smiling in a different way when you hand those out or you show those to a spectator They obviously know That that card's been printed. Okay, so on the one hand They're both cool and they're interesting and they kind of present this like ooh shock value But I prefer invisible gas and so that's kind of how I'm ranking this today. All right Let's count down seven to number one Number seven the gas system from illusionist now. This was a project that was put together from Daniel Madison Kaylin Morelle Eric Jones and Adam Wilbert now if you get the gas system You're obviously gonna get the deck and you're gonna get the DVDs as well On the DVD set there are 15 effects taught by all these different various artists Okay, so 15 effects now. Let's just run through the positives and the negatives Positives are they're very great effects. They're very fun eye candy visual. They pop They're very modern and of course you think about Daniel Madison Kaylin Morelle Eric Jones that I'm over. They're all very current very modern Guys that are out there in the industry right now. Okay Negatives negatives are there's only 15 and only 15 So this isn't a gas deck that you can do like multiple tricks with but they only teach you 15 It's really just these 15. That's it and you have to use either the green or blue artifice decks in conjunction with this and a lot of these tricks are consumable Meaning you'll have to destroy these cards and once you're done destroying them You'll have to buy the gas system all over again. All right number six the gas effect deck from first Magic studio Hey, this deck is currently sold out and you're gonna see that a lot with some of these gas decks There's like one run and then they sell out so that's kind of bad This deck boasts that you could do about 50 tricks or more, which is great. You know, that's really cool And I bought mine from Penguin But you were able when they were first out to buy them from a lot of different places positives from this positives are it's got lots of marketed effects So effects that you would normally have to buy Individually come pre-packaged in this deck negatives to this We don't actually know that first Magic Studio got permission to do this because you know usually when you market somebody else's trick you should ask them so that would be nice and a lot of these cards kind of Felt like an ultra-gap knockoff number five the Madison gamblers from Daniel Madison and illusionist calm This was a really cool set also came out with a DVD that taught you how to do these tricks So there's 14 effects 14 that are taught on the DVD and I would argue that there's some extra cards like double Backers and double facers. So obviously you can do more tricks than just these 14 positives are positives are The deck comes available in both the black rounders and the green dealers So you have your choice you can do one or the other But you know that can also be a negative because you can't do these tricks with any other decks Plus the second disc that comes with this is all gaff Theory and teaching and theory is so important You got great guys in here like Peter McKinnon, Adam Wilbur, Mark Calabrese and Alex Pandrea So and there's some really cool effects on here as well You know Daniel Madison's style. It's his magic negatives are like I said earlier You can only use these two decks. Okay, this this deck isn't transferable to other decks You have to use black rounders or green dealers and my other negative and this is just me these effects were hard These are not easy Tricks they were Daniel Madison style Daniel Madison skill level. So yeah number four the illusionist Gaff deck from illusionist.com now when this deck came out Originally, it also had a companion video called the army of 52 that was done by Justin Miller Since then it's kind of become known as the ghost gas deck In a later printing so they stopped doing bicycle back when bicycle said you can no longer print Gaff cards using our back design. They've since changed Their theory on that but back then so then illusionist had to make the gas Deck become a ghost deck so that they could actually keep printing them. You can still download the army of 52 Video from illusionist.com Justin Miller's the teacher you get 18 effects that are taught on it Positives are positives are it's just as good as ultra gas and I know I didn't rank ultra gaff yet But I want to tell you why I ranked it lower There's less effects taught on it, but it's still a good system just as good as ultra gas All right So what are the negatives to this negative to the Lucianist gaff deck are kind of like other videos? That are released with these decks and you'll see this from time to time They give you a lot of cards with no explanation They say oh look at all these cards you get but then when you get the video you get 18 tricks You're like well, what about the trick for this? What about the trick for this and like sorry You kind of have to come up with your own routines for some of these other cards and they're kind of almost like why was this printed? So yeah, number three ultra gaff from Wayne Houchen Daniel Garcia and illusionist comm I think when people think of gaff decks they think of ultra gaff that is like the granddaddy It's like it's one of the first of these kind of modern Custom gaff decks to be released by a large house. It is sold out. So it is you know difficult to find you do get 20 routines So huge amount of routines to DVDs Both Daniel Garcia and Wayne Houchen are really funny and the DVDs are just fun to watch in and of themselves Back then it was the best of its day and since it has been printed a lot of people have come up Underneath them and been imitators of them. So it's a great combination deck that has both hidden Gaffs and visible gaff. So it's a great combination of both Positives for ultra gaff. I mean, like I said, it was the innovator It was the one that started it all so lots of creativity was put into this negatives again several cards that you receive have Absolutely no explanation. Number two weapons from Eric Ross Weapons from Eric Ross came out recently and it's still available. That's a really good thing about this gaff deck If you want to get a gaff deck weapons is still out there. You can still buy it There's ten effects. So not as many as previous but the great thing also about weapons is if you have Ultra gaff or you have the army of 52 you'll learn some effects on those videos that you can do with weapons. Okay, so Some of the negatives around weapons was that it had some controversy when it first came out Didn't know if Eric Ross had permission from everyone before he released it But the positives are like I said, it's still available. It's got great marketed effects on there Especially like you get lit from Dan White, which is a great routine and it comes in that Lots of invisible gas as well as visible gas and I love the double backers. There's some great great double backers For United States playing card company in there and number one the standard a gaff deck from United States playing card company Now why don't I put this one at the top? Well, it's a standard gaff deck It's available at all of your favorite magic stores or magic retailers. I think it's still printed If not, there's the tally ho deck. That's exactly the same and I know you can still get that one So it's going to give you all the cards you need really It's full of invisible cards. You get double backers double facers double blanks and half blanks half facers and really the amount of magic that you can do with this deck is unlimited because Every trick that does a double backer or every trick that has a double facer You can use this deck and it's going to seamlessly fit into all of your standard off-the-shelf bicycle cards So literally this one deck can do thousands Thousands of magic tricks positives are it's all invisible cards negatives are you will have to buy a magic book To figure them all out, but there's no real negative to buying magic books. 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