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Interesting deck from Bicycle. The box starts off nicely embellished, with gold metallic inks on a black box. Upon opening the box and examining the deck, you realize that the card backs do not match the box. This may in and of itself not be a deal breaker per se, but seeing metallic inks on the box might make someone lean towards believing that the cards would follow suit (no pun intended). The card backs have a white outer border, a black inner border, and a nice symmetrical scroll work design which is a flat gold ink (not metallic) on black. The card fronts have a white background but are completely custom, as even the two thru ten cards have a custom font and pips, and the arrangement of the center pips varies greatly from standard decks of cards as well. There are two full sized and identical jokers (one red, one black) featuring some sort of winged creature. A double backer is included as well. The court cards, while nice, didn't jump out at me. Everything was simply "nice" with this deck, but not amazing, there was no "wow" factor, and the artwork seemed to just fall a bit flat. This was a "nice" deck, nothing more, and to me there was nothing here that screamed "I absolutely MUST have this".