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Conjuring Arts information: Conjuring Arts proudly introduces our new exclusive Professional Bicycle® Playing Cards to the magic community. These new Professional Bicycles® may look familiar, but they have been custom designed for discerning card handlers. They feature an unprecedented level of quality along with a handful of clever surprises. These cards are printed on the highest quality casino stock with USPCC’s finest coating. This makes for a deck that not only feels as good as cards from 10 years ago, but even better. These cards will make many common sleights easier, and certain sleights and flourishes wouldn’t be possible with any other deck. These decks are arranged similarly to the Spanish, or Fournier, order. It is a natural Stay-Stack or mirror stack and will allow those of you who use Mnemonica to get into stack more quickly than with regular Bicycles. As with our other cards, users can decide whether they prefer the feel of an Air Cushion or Ivory finish. Clever magicians will create “sorts” by mixing the two finishes together in one deck. A very powerful secret weapon from nearly a hundred years ago that has not been available for decades!

Created for the 10th anniversary of the Rilakkuma bear from Japan’s San-X label.

Scans of each card can be seen at

http://www.marytcusack.com/maryc/decks/htmlCards/Metal.html

Global Titans are the first release from Conjuring Arts under their new moniker, The Expert Playing Card Company, LLC. The EPCC is "committed to creating the best cards in the world for the best hands in the world." Global Titans are described as amazingly thin and flexible by CARC. The Global Titans were manufactured and then finished by hand in Shanghai.

In addition to the exceptional quality of the cards themselves the packs come in a beautiful Art Nouveau style tuck case that is both gold foil stamped as well as embossed. The cards are also embossed with a fine texture and handle and feel quite differently than any other deck that Conjuring Arts has ever released.

The Global Titans come in Classic Gold and Pearl White. The print run is extremely limited and they will not be reprinted, though at this stage it is unknown exactly how many were printed.