 Hey, everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name's David, and this is a top 10. All right, so today we're going to look at the top decks that fit the SW Erdnay's theme. You know, right now, people are talking about expert at the card table, and that's great. It's great that people are talking about that. It's a great book. It's a very advanced book. If you're a beginner in card magic, you're just starting out, even if you've only been doing this for a couple of months. If magicians are trying to cram expert at the card table down your throat, don't listen. There are easier books out there. Please don't start with this book. It's very advanced. You probably need to have quite a bit of skill before you're going to be able to do some of the moves in this. Of course, people always talk about it like it's the end all, end all. And like I said in my other video, people rush out and buy it because they hear it's the best. But it's a very difficult book, both in moves and in language, just in reading it. There are not even a lot of pictures in it. So again, like I said, it's an advanced book. Just know that going in. But there are a lot of decks of cards, a lot of decks of cards that have been devoted to this theme of SW Erdneis and the expert at the card table. So I thought we'd look at a couple of those right now. All right, coming in at number seven. Number seven, I thought you said this was a top 10. Well, yeah, it is a top 10. But I only have seven of these decks. So it's really a top seven. Okay, then why don't you just call it a top seven at the beginning? Why'd you call it a top 10? Because nobody searches YouTube for top seven lists. Everyone searches for top 10. So it's gotta be a top 10. But you just said you only have seven decks. Shut up you. Coming in at number seven, the Madison Dealers. All right, so this is not really an Erdneis deck. It's not. It doesn't have an Erdneis theme, but it was released as being printed in Erdneis Green. Okay, Madison released this along with Illusionist and said this was an Erdneis color, okay? But there really isn't anything else Erdneis besides that, but thought it was worth a mention. It does have a casino deck back, which means the image goes all the way to the edges. So it makes it a really good deck for the moves that would be in the expert at the card table. So it has more of a gambling feel. And these are marked cards. It does have Madison courts, a double backer, dead crow jokers and an ad card. Number six, the Smithback from Conjuring Arts Research Center. The back design on this is a repeated illustration from the book. So it's one of the figures and it's just repeated multiple times to make it appear to have a casino back. It does have very vintage looking courts, which is cool. And the ad card, both of them are a little bit more about the book. So it kind of does introduce you to the book. And then the jokers are supposedly Erdneis sitting at his table. Number five, the Erdneisium deck from Conjuring Arts Research Center and Dan and Dave. All right, this was a collaboration between these two groups. And Bill Kaluush from Conjuring Arts Research Center was kind of like the spearhead behind this. And it was created for the Erdneisium event that was held in Montana back in August of 2011. Now the back design logo is an Amagram of SW Erdneis which means it looks like SW Erdneis one direction but if you flip the card over you'll see that it spells out W.E. Sanders which is a possible candidate for who Erdneis might have been. The overall back design is commonly referred to as the B wormback and it does have traditional B faces with vintage courts. Number four, the SW E deck from Daniel Madison and illusionist.com. All right, so this is a typical Madison illusionist collaboration. The box design is all done in the Erdneis green and it has a lot of cool Erdneis graphics. It has have Madison courts, which you would expect from a Madison deck. It comes with a double backer. The jokers are from figure number 25, which is in the book. The ace of spades is nice and big and it has text from the book in the shadow of it and it comes with a dealer's card. Number three, the 1902 green acorn deck from Conringard's research center. This is a cool addition of the Erdneis playing card series because it has white borders and has a green acorn back design that was designed by Guy Hollingworth. It does have vintage courts. The ad cards do contain the about the book cards and again, you're gonna see the Erdneis at the table jokers. It's printed on exclusive B casino stock and it has magic finish and it does have a traditional cut, which people that do table ferros and a lot of the moves an expert at the card table would appreciate. Number two, the Erdneis 216 deck from Conringard's research center. With this deck, this was a really cool project because they were trying to reproduce a century old B design that's believed to be the possible deck that served as the artist model and what the illustrator used when he drew the original book. So it's due to the similarity in appearance between what the book sketches look like and the deck's back design. So using those two things, Conringard's designed this deck to hopefully recreate a deck that maybe never even existed. So it's possible, we don't know. It does have full B faces, B asus spades and the paper stock is incredibly, incredibly thin and I don't even know if they've ever made a deck that felt like this or handles like this ever again. And number one, the magic apple expert at the card table deck. This deck is the original Erdneis deck and that's why we're putting it at number one. This was designed as a collaboration between the magic apple and Dan and Dave. There's two versions of this deck. The box looks exactly like the book. It's meant to look like the book from the sides of the cover and has a casino diamond back design with a poker border. And again, you're gonna see the acorn jokers, the acorn asus spades. You're gonna get two ad cards and the two ad cards again are trying to make it look like the book like if you were to turn the pages of the cards, the two ad cards would be the front page of the book and the preface of the book. So it's really cool and it's probably my favorite expert at the card table deck. All right, so there you have it. My top 10. All right, so there you have it. My top seven Erdneis decks and just a little bit of a closer look about them. I'll stick all their past reviews that I've done for this in the description below and I'll see you guys next time. Thanks, bye.