 Hey everybody, welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name is David and this is a deck review. All right, today we're going to look at the new Star Wars playing cards, the Light Side and the Dark Side, from theory11.com. Now, I know what you're saying. Why aren't you looking at Last Jedi? Like, I never made a video that told you how I felt about Last Jedi. Why aren't I making a video about the last episode of The Mandalorian? Simple. There's hundreds, if not thousands, of other Star Wars YouTube channels that are already talking about those things. I would just be white noise talking about those things as well. I'd rather talk to you about merchandise. I'd rather talk to you about toys. If you've been watching my channel for any amount of time, you know that I'm a Star Wars fan since the beginning, since 1977, and I am not a hater in any way. I love all of Star Wars. I love all the films. I love the books. You slap Star Wars on it. I'll probably buy it. And I want to show it to you. I like showing you my collection, my toys, and the Star Wars stuff. And if you've been a collector of Star Wars merchandise for as long as I have, you have probably seen some of the other decks of cards that have come out that have been Star Wars themed. Many of them have been printed by Cardamundi, and that's fine. Cardamundi has made good cards in the past. But the problem with the Star Wars collector's merch that has come out in the past is that I am also a playing card collector. I also collect playing cards. And so the quality of the Star Wars playing cards in the past has kind of always been a little subpar. There's always been some things about the playing card decks that I haven't liked. I mean, number one, a lot of times they come in a tin. And the tin is three-dimensional, and they try to make it seem like, ooh, you'll love this collector's tin. But tins don't really stack well. They don't store well. They're way too big and kind of miss just having a box to put your cards in. Second, the quality of the paper is never as good. It always seems like they use a subpar paper when they print cards that are supposed to be collectible. And then it doesn't seem like they spend a lot of time on the design or they over-design it, right? The back design is usually a poster from one of the Star Wars films, which means it's a one-way image, which means once the cards get flipped around, it's upside down, right side up, and then the fronts are usually photographs as well from the movies, making those one way. And of course, you know, I've bought them. I've bought them. I have the Star Wars ones that came out a long time ago. I've got the Rogue One deck. I have Boa Fett deck. That one actually came in a cardboard box. I have that one as well. But like I said, they've never really kind of wowed me. I've just bought them to have them and just to have them as collector's pieces, but they've never been what I would say would be a quality deck of cards. So thank goodness for theory11.com. If you don't know and you head on down there and check out their website, that's what they do. They design really good decks of cards. They design great decks of cards and they make amazing tech cases. Finally, as Star Wars collectors, we get a deck of cards printed from the United States playing card company in a cardboard tach like we would want and all drawn beautiful two-way images. Let's look at both these decks right now. First thing you'll notice is the red and blue tach cases, light side and dark side respectively. The back of the tach case where the tach seal is, that actually is the front of the box because that's where it says Star Wars playing cards on both sides. Light side has an X-wing at the top and a Y-wing at the bottom has some Star Wars symbols for the rebellion and the resistance. And then the dark side one has a star destroyer at the top and Darth Vader's tie at the bottom and then it has symbols for the empire and the first order. On the sides of the tach you're going to have some Star Wars quotes. Now I am the master, luminous beings are we and on the other side the power of the dark side and may the force be with you. The bottom has mad copy about theory11.com, Disney and Lucasfilm. And the top side shows an original tach seal. The blue says join the rebellion, the red says defend the empire and you have a Star Wars quote underneath that. If you lift the tongue flap up on the light side deck it says stay on target and if you lift it all the way up to show the tiny tongue flaps you have some tiny little X-wings. On the dark side tach case the flap says I have you now with Darth Vader's tie and then there's some little tie fighters on the tiny tach flaps. Both these tach cases are done on black matte embossed paper with foil inks. That's everything I can say about the tach cases. Let's open them up. Let's look at these cards. Now the only big difference between the two decks is the back design. Light side will have its own back design, dark side will have its own back design. The faces and the courts are going to be the same for both decks which is good because then you have a set of decks for playing card games that require two decks. On the back of the light side deck you have symbols for the resistance and the rebellion. It's flanked on either side with the lightsaber, the lightsaber. Top and bottom has the cockpit of the William Falcon as well as Archery II's dome and you have some little tiny repeating X-wings there in the very center. The back of the dark side deck includes Emperor Palpatine's window and the dome of the Death Star as well as some repeating tie fighter images and it is also flanked on either side by a dark side lightsaber. With this deck you'll get two extra cards. One is a Star Wars card that talks about Disney and LucasArts and the second one is an ad card for theory11.com. Your two jokers are the two new droids from the new series. You have BB-8 with his lighter sticking out and the second one is Dio and they both say Joker in each corner and between the two they're both really cute. I'm not exactly sure why they did Dio in red and not green. Perhaps it's because there aren't any green inks in the deck at all and doing another pass of another color would have just been, you know, more cost. Your ace of spades has Luke's X-wing being pulled out of the deck of a swamp and it's all done in kind of like a gold and black and then you can see Yoda down there at the bottom lifting it. Your pips and indices are going to be completely redone. You have an original font in the corner and you can see the division with the pips as they're segmented down the center with a dark side on one side and kind of like a gradient side on the other and then your beautiful core cards are completely redone. They're kind of done in the style of our classic traditional courts but of course they're given Star Wars clothing, weapons and faces. Your spades are Boba Fett, Samadala and Darth Vader. Your diamonds are Luke Skywalker. Your clubs are Emperor Palpatine Mon Motha and Kylo Ren. And your hearts are Obi-Wan Kenobi, Princess Leia and Han Solo. Also if you look at the other aces you'll see a spaceship as a watermark in the background. The ace of diamonds is the slave one. The ace of clubs is Darth Vader's tie fighter and the ace of hearts is the Millennium Falcon. And of course because they're made by the United States playing card company which is Bicycle, they're going to shuffle great, feel great, they're going to be perfect for anything that you enjoy playing cards with. I'm so glad that theory11.com partnered with Disney and LucasArts to make these decks. I've been waiting for quality Star Wars playing cards for a really long time as a playing card collector and I believe both of them are still available on their website. I believe each deck is $10 a piece. Hey, let me know what you think about these cards or cards in the past with the previous decks or if you've got any of the older playing cards you surely want to hit me up in the comment section below. May the Force be with you guys. I'll see you next time. Bye.