 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 Bicycle Mystique deck from Shapeshifter's Gambler's Warehouse and playingcards.net. All right, so what is the Mystique deck? With the Mystique deck, you are entering into a world of shifting loyalties and shifting features. A world of indefinable allure where nothing is as it seems and nothing can be trusted. This is the world of the Mystique playingcards. From the hypnotic curves and rich patterns of the card backs to the intricate coils of the ace of spades and the haunting attraction of its custom jokers and court cards, you will find yourself falling into each design without ever really knowing why. Stare as long as you like, you'll never solve the mystery of this Mystique. The front of the tuck ace says Bicycle and it has the Mystique logo with the giant M down there at the bottom. It does say trusted since 1885. You're going to notice a lot of these golds, deep reds, like really deep umber browns as the coloring for this tuck wrapped all the way around. One side of the tuck case is made in the USA air cushion finish and the other side says Mystique. The top says Mystique and the bottom has some ad copy. The back design of course is a back design of the cards. The tongue flap has a little bit more ad copy and it has two little Mystique logos there on the tiny flaps. That is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards come printed from the United States playing card company and they are done on a casino grade stock. They do have a modern cut and air cushion emboss and if you'd like to learn more about stock, cut or finish, you can click the link below in the description. A lot of people will always ask me how these cards feel and handle. Best thing I can do is measure them with a caliper and give you a better idea. 2.90 is what these come to. They stick 10 of these in the caliper. They come to 2.90. 2.90 is pretty much in the realm of the casino grade B stock. 2.90 is about the same as the denim deck from Bicycle, the blue bomber deck, the Union deck that Bicycle put out, also the snow leopard deck that Expert put out, the Grinders deck that Legends put out, Artifice Black is also 2.90. Of course, this is a Q1 deck, meaning it's a deck that's printed with a Q1 quality controls down at United States playing card company, which means it'll handle and feel a little bit better than a deck of cards you find off the shelf. If you look at the sides and corners, you'll see there's a lot of color, but that's going to be from the ink. That's going to be from the ink and not from the cut. Just feeling the edges, feeling the corners. It does have a medium roughness, so not too rough, not too smooth. That's a medium roughness, and they do feel well gliding from one hand to the next. The back design is a very beautiful, very complex design. Again, you're going to have those deep browns, those umber colors, those deep golds, deep reds, just lots of floral fauna pattern, really making up a very striking deck. Of course, you're going to notice that the poker border is a blackish or a very dark deep brown, but then the faces are white, so that will make hidden cards stand out very easily. Now, the pips and indices, these are also beautiful as well. You'll see that everything's been completely stylized. Everything's been redone. You're going to have quad corners, okay, quad pip corners, so that means you have a pip and an indice in every single corner, and then you have kind of like a watermark frame behind that, and then you're also going to have the cigar band detail on the sides, and so the black suits will have the black cigar band, and the red suits will have the red cigar band. So with this deck, you'll also get two extra cards. You'll get a double backer, which is great for magic tricks, and you'll get a at card for shapeshifters custom built playing cards. Also with this deck, you'll get two original jokers. They're shields or a shield type symbol with a lady's face in the center. One is the red color, and one is that deep green color. Your aces are all big, giant, exploded, beautifully intricate, just to carry the same theme as the back design. To the front of the cards, they're very bold, very striking. Of course, that means your court cards have all been completely redrawn and completely customized as well. They're in very minimal colors that carry the same theme of the deck, so the blacks have that deep green, and the reds are that orangey burnt color. They've all been stripped away of any other color, but I think they'll be completely recognizable to people that are familiar with the standard deck. You're still going to have the one-eyed kings, one-eyed jacks, same faces facing the same direction, same crowns, and same objects that they are holding. Alright, so that's my review of the Bicycle Mystique deck from shapeshifters and gamblers warehouse. I'd like to thank RarePlayingCards.com for allowing me to have this deck so that I can do the review for you, and if you'd like to find this deck or any of your other very favorite decks, you can find them at RarePlayingCards.com. The link below is in the description. Thanks, bye.