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✴️ – Price is high because this deck is now Out of Print, please check availability before payment!
– Playing Cards are printed in batches of 1000, 5000, etc. It is a limited resource. – For example, for a design with 1000 decks,
300 buyers may collect and open for Cardistry,
300 buyers collect & keep them sealed,
400 are kept by retailers as stocks.
– When limited edition collectible cards go Out of Print, that’s when the price jumps significantly.
– We now enter the Wild Wild West cowboy territory. The price is set by the resale companies, not by me.
– Each deck that’s sold means it becomes rarer & rarer to find a deck that is still brand new, sealed with cellophane, unopened and undented.
– I do not deal with cheap decks from individual sellers on eBay as I go through too much volume to do QC myself.
– The resale companies guarantee authenticity, provenance & quality control as they only purchase from retailers who have gone out of business.
– Decks are protected as they send cartons of 50 to 100 each time. The price reflects this superhuman effort & increased global shipping, GST & custom fees.
– There is no need to collect rare decks at all. Please search for regular decks which I get directly from wholesaler under “Murphy’s Magic”.
– You are also very welcome to use my research to find other alternatives. Enjoy the wonderfully bizarre world of card collecting! 🙂
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🌟 TIME Playing Cards – DELUXE SET is an extremely beautiful collection that can be displayed on your shelf. The set contains 5 decks. 2 of them are marked decks (With customized TIME marking system). 1 of the decks of marked playing cards features standard faces, while the other has removed the corner indices to create a wonderful tribute to the vintage style of playing cards from years past – This is what the face of playing cards look like hundreds years ago!
🌟 Each of the 3 gaff decks also offer unique potential for an array of jaw-dropping card magic routines. The instructional videos provided also include performances (not tutorials) of some amazing card magic tricks that you, once you know the secrets of the decks, will be able to figure out and perform yourself
🌟 This unbelievable deluxe set is a one-of-a-kind release that any avid playing card collector must have in their collection. With only 144 made, this is one of the rarest sets I’ve ever seen. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever.
🌟 The whole set adopts a convex shape + bronzing design, and the craftsmanship is elegant and delicate. The best effect is to arrange the decks on your shelves in a concave half circle arrangement for the best optic effects.
🌟 The tuck box is embossed with half a Roman clock embossed and a general Arabic numeral clock. The top of the tongue flap is designed with the word TIME, which is inserted into the tuck box to reveal half of it, like a sharp sword pulling out of its sheath. There are gilded Roman pillars with varying degrees of weathering on the sides of the 5 tuck boxes, namely:
TIME(I)— A Perfect Pillar
TIME (II)- Initial Damage, Loss
TIME (III)- Wind Erosion
TIME (IV)— Afterglow
TIME (V)- Dusk of the Gods
🌟 With each deck no 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, you can see each pillar height descending. When you display it as a set on the shelves it looks very poignant, like dilapidated and abandoned Roman ruins at an ancient site. It also reminds me of the passage of time, from the perfect and flawless pillar of Deck 1 to the broken down pillar of Deck 5. You will truly ruminate on the passing of time with this visual symbol.
🌟 TIME(I)— A Perfect Pillar
—Standard plate: The side bronzing logo is a Roman stone pillar intact. The entire TIME sign board adopts the specially designed TIME sign system, which instantly lets you know the suit and number of the card. The redesigned custom JQK and retro-form color design come with two special props cards.
– TIME (I) has an additional special function that allows you to directly pick out 4 Aces in a stack of shuffled cards.
(using the TIME complete marking system, including the markings of suits and points)
See it demonstrated here:
🌟 TIME (II) Initial Damage, Loss
-Gaff Deck 1 (Props Set 1): The side bronzing logo is a Roman stone pillar with a small amount of wear.
– The effects that can be completed are: B Wave, prophecy, 5-card mind-reading technique
(The embossed clock face with half Roman letters and half Arabic numerals on the card box is sharply convex)
🌟 TIME (III) Wind Erosion
-Gaff Deck 1 (Prop Set 2): The side bronzing logo is a Roman stone pillar where the wear and tear from wind erosion over time can be clearly seen.
– The effects that can be completed are: fit cards, winners, separation of red and black, and prophecies.
🌟 TIME (IV) Afterglow
-Gaff Deck 3 (Props Collection 3): The side bronzing is marked as a Roman stone pillar with severe wear and tear. The main function of the whole card is for “the audience to wish for the cards to disappear”, and it is also an improvement of the classic prop cards used in Derren Brown’s SMOKE.
🌟 TIME (V) Dusk of the Gods
-pays tribute to the original appearance of ancient playing cards: the side bronzing logo is a Roman stone pillar under the sunset that has only a small vestige remaining. According to research, when playing cards were originally developed, there were no suit points in the corners, so this deck also removed this setting, restoring the original appearance of playing cards from hundreds of years ago. When you hold it in your hand, you can travel through hundreds of years back in time. This Roman stone pillar symbolizes the twilight of the gods and return to the true starting point of card magic. The back of the card, like TIME (I), uses the TIME complete marking system.
🌟 Special Design
The two Joker designs are [Tree of Life] and [Tree of Withering], which represent the flow of time.
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