Deck Review: Ultra Gaff Deck - Ellusionist - Magic Playing Cards\r
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THE FINAL WORD IN GAFFED PLAYING CARDS.\r
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52 playing cards imagined from the minds of Wayne Houchin and Daniel Garcia. Their goal, to build miracles that havent seen the light of day. Youve never held in your hands gaffed playing cards of this quality.\r
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But what is a gaffed deck, you ask? Simply, these are cards that fit quietly with your normal red Bicycle deck that allow you to perform miracles you could never otherwise do.\r
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If you have the chance to have USPC/Ellusionist make you anything you want - you take it. You put all the ingenuity you can into the design of the cards. You take the process that made Stigmata and Fraud what they are today, and apply it to playing cards.\r
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UltraGaff is a deck of specialized playing cards, gaffed cards, that are meant to fit in quietly with a normal deck of Bicycle playing cards. On this page you can purchase the DVD training that allows you to perform the ex tricks that Danny and Wayne created for each of the cards in the UltraGaff Deck.\r
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There are 3 volumes, all over an hour long. (Vol-3 is one hour and forty minutes). Each volume stands alone, or can be purchased in a complete set of 3. The volumes progress in difficulty, but you can find easy material in each volume as well. Many sleights are taught in the videos and there is an abundance of rare teaching from these two masters; subtleties, tricks of the trade, ways to get in and out of a routine with gaffs --- ETC.\r
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Who invented the deck of cards?\r
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The first reference to card games dates from the 9th century, when the Collection of Miscellanea at Duyang, written by Tang dynasty writer Su E, described Princess Tongchang, daughter of Emperor Yizong of Tang, playing the leaf game in 868 with members of the Wei clan, the family of the princess husband.\r
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How much is in a deck of cards?\r
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The most common sizes for playing cards are poker size (2.5 × 3.5 inches (64 × 89 mm), or B8 size according to ISO 216) and bridge size (2.25 × 3.5 inches (57 × 89 mm))