Where would I be able to order the best assortment deck? I am looking for one that comes not only with the standard blank face, doubles, blank backers, etc..., but one which also has extra cards like gimmicks such as the 13 of spades, and the 52 on one, and so on. If anyone knows of where I could find such a deck please let me know. Or, a distributer which sells a deck of all gimmmicked cards and another deck which is the standard assortment deck would be perfect as well. Thank you!

PenguinMagic.com

I second that. It will have a lot of gaffs for you.

I ordered to assorted decks from penguin. One was the standard assorted deck and the other was one you could tell the staff at penguin had put together. The box was open, and that was the pack that had the odd cards like 13 of spades 14 of diamonds, tree of hearts, etc.

Kinda funny, right after I ordered them they were listed as Out of Stock.....
I guess they threw one together for me....

So, you may have to request that special deck...

Willie

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$35 dollars. Is it bicycle backed and is from Haines House of Cards. It has tons of gafts. It is called "The New 21st Century Fako Cards".

I dun know if "The New 21st Century Fako Cards" is the same set of FAKO deck I bought some time ago...

if it is the same, then it has a LOT of gaffs that is not found elsewhere....
a bit expensive, but you get gaffs that are very very unique....

Thanks for all the info. I was thinking that penguin was the way to go as I get great service and products from them always. That 21st century thing looks interesting as well. What kind of gimmicks would it come with?

I just received a 21st century fako set for Christmas, and they have all the cards you mentioned, and many more. It says "36" tricks on the accompanying booklet, but I think there are hundreds of tricks possible. If you are feeling inventive, just flipping through the deck is a great thing. One thing you should know, though, I did not see any normal double face cards in the fako deck, while the penguin assortment has a few. The fako gaffs are more interesting and bizzare.

Fako decks rules.

If you want such a deck with like 14 of diamonds, 3/5 of clubs, tree of hearts and weird cards like that, look for a fako deck.

Those got tons of different cards, not only like the usual double faser and backer and blanks but actually, if you buy a fako, you have the 3 card monte (I think the gaffs are in there, at least in a deck I have.)

Also lots of other stuff.

My fako though is in Jumbo cards and not bicycle stock.

I want a fako in bicycle stock poker size.

Sounds good. Does the Fako deck have the necessary gaffs for the McDonald's Aces (double facers with aces on one side)

Might wanna have a look at the CAJ Deck too, that has some crazy stuff in it, including ultimate 3 card monte, (nearly) temptation, twisted sisters etc. sets + lots of other interesting gaffs on bike stock.

Where can I have a look at this?

José

Zur, yes it does. See the full description at:

http://www.grandillusions.com/index2.html

It shows the included cards, and some screenshots.

Nooooo, FIGHT THE POWER....ahem, got that out of my system

CAJ Deck - http://www.davenportsmagic.co.uk

I would recommend the fako deck. The book is awesome and it comes with all the cards you listed and more. The double back aces, thirteen of spades, and many more! Well worth the price.

Thanks for all the response. I am definitely going to go pick one of those fako decks up now. And in response to the penguin thing...I absolutley agree. However, my "local" magic shop is about and hour away and although I have a relationship with the people who run it and enjoy being there, the prices are just too much for me. For example, the quaret gimmick was 35 dollars has opposed to the 20 price on the internet. But, I still enjoying visiting Jack Maxwell (the shop owner) and shop once and a while .

I thing I always wondered about: It is very cheap to buy a standard assorted bicycle deck with a couple of double backers, double facers, blank backs, blank fronts, and so on. Is there a single video or book available that contains a bunch of tricks one can do with these cards? Or does that basically not exist because it would make it harder to sell these millions of overpriced packet tricks?

A simple naive question:

If I order the fako deck, will there any books or guidelines come along?

thanks,
Hirase

So...Fako vs CAJ? What do you guys think? I have decided that I'm going to get a special assortment and a fako/caj deck but I cant afford all three so I need to narrow it down to two. Help please! lol. Thank you all... And btw...i know that from ELMS (elmagicshop.com) they have a booklet along with the CAJ deck.