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It's getting hard to keep track of all the special editions. They have now unlocked the Elegant Box Set and the Deluxe Elegant Box Set. Limited to the KS campaign, but not limited in number.


Elegant Box Set (White Box)
Deluxe Elegant Box Set (Black Box, Gold-Gilded Cards)

It's kinda like In basketball culture, while the best players are in the NBA, here are the flashy streetballers who'd get wrecked when playing professional, but maintains that eye-catching dribbles and tricks. Photo worthy. But at the end the day, it's all just the same Spalding basketball sold with Gucci packaging.

I pledged for the two black gold box sets and I think I am going to cancel my pledge. If someone on here would want it I would like to try to cancel when they could jump on and get it. I don't know if this is a bad idea but I wanted to check if someone wanted them

Lets count the boxes. So everyone is up to speed. They're offering up.

Billboard Transformer Tucks
100 Walnut boxes holding three golden gilded decks with special numbered stickers. Red, Green and Blue. Sold Out
500 Black sunroof inspired billboard sleeved give it a tug box holding three non gilded decks with special numbered stickers. Green, Blue and Red. Sold Out
500 Luxury plastic (kinda cloudy looking so we know it's not normal non-luxury plastic) holding three non gilded decks with special numbered stickers. Red, Blue and Green. Available
New offerings. (the following two sets are claimed to not be retailed and not be wholesaled.)
Elegant White sleeved turn and tug housing two non-gilded decks. Black and White. No picture of stickers, so don't know. Available
Elegant Black sleeved turn and tug box housing two gilded decks. Black and White. Don't know no picture of stickers. Available

Then we have the ultimate stars. Which are not in sets.
Card College Playing Cards sold in red and blue without stamps or stickers. Just decks of playing cards. Available

Ice_Panda wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:06 am I pledged for the two black gold box sets and I think I am going to cancel my pledge. If someone on here would want it I would like to try to cancel when they could jump on and get it. I don't know if this is a bad idea but I wanted to check if someone wanted them

I can understand that feeling. I'm considering dishing my pledge as well. I'm going to sleep on it first though. Decide how I feel then.

ya Im not about this type of release personally. I just want someone else who really wants them and missed out to try and get them rather then some random person

*EDIT I gave my spot away sorry if this wasn't the correct forum for this thing

These boxes are awesome! I'm just gonna go ahead and say it for everybody now and get it outta the way. I'm gonna totally rip these bad boys off and do them up right!

Fes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:16 amBillboard Transformer Tucks
100 Walnut boxes holding three golden gilded decks with special numbered stickers. Red, Green and Blue. Sold Out
500 Black sunroof inspired billboard sleeved give it a tug box holding three non gilded decks with special numbered stickers. Green, Blue and Red. Sold Out
500 Luxury plastic (kinda cloudy looking so we know it's not normal non-luxury plastic) holding three non gilded decks with special numbered stickers. Red, Blue and Green. Available
New offerings. (the following two sets are claimed to not be retailed and not be wholesaled.)
Elegant White sleeved turn and tug housing two non-gilded decks. Black and White. No picture of stickers, so don't know. Available
Elegant Black sleeved turn and tug box housing two gilded decks. Black and White. Don't know no picture of stickers. Available

Then we have the ultimate stars. Which are not in sets.
Card College Playing Cards sold in red and blue without stamps or stickers. Just decks of playing cards. Available

Great overview Fes - thanks for putting this together.

It's also worth noting the prices for these, because compared with things like the Cherry Casino House Decks ($75 for a normal deck but just with a numbered seal), they're very good value for what you get.

I'm especially amazed by the low price for the basic red/blue decks - when's the last time you saw a USPCC printed deck available for just $3.95 on Kickstarter? Especially for magicians and people looking for a workhorse deck, that's very good value.

JacksonRobinson wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:45 pm These boxes are awesome! I'm just gonna go ahead and say it for everybody now and get it outta the way. I'm gonna totally rip these bad boys off and do them up right!

Didn't you already do something like that with the Labyrinth decks? And not forgetting the wooden (and sometime metal) legacy boxes way back in your early KS days? If anything, these fellas are copying you!

As part of a recent 2 hour Zoom lecture, Giobbi went over all the features of his Card College Playing Cards, which were beautifully produced by Danny from TCC. Giobbi also performed and taught Vernon's "Staring Him in The Face".

In the latest issue of Magic Memories (#32), he's freely given away a 16 minute video clip from that lecture.

The first part of this clip covers the Card College decks, and the performance and instruction of the Vernon trick begins at 11:20 in the video:



In a previous issue of Magic Memories (#30), he gave some good suggestions for using the Guarantee Joker that is included in this and some other decks.

As part of that he gave away a trick that uses the Guarantee Joker, called TTT -Turn Over, Transform & Travel.