Here we go…

The guys at Ellusionist have gone crazy. For these Christmas Holidays they bring us a contest where you can win from a $1500 credit card to spend at their store and a 32gb Ipod Touch loaded with Magic DVDS to hundreds of Arcane decks and even some ultra rare 1st edition Black Ghost Decks, yeah, those you saw at eBay for $500 a couple of months ago.

Here are some of the goodies up for grabs…

-1500 USD to spend at Ellusionist
-32gb 3rd gen Ipod Touch loaded with How to do Street Magic, Revolution, Shapeshifter, Crash Course 1, Crash 2, Ninja 1, Ninja 2, Kard Klub, Inside Magic, King Rising, Hover Card, and a backup DVD of each.
-45 minutes private training session with Brad Christian
-Hundreds of Arcane Playing Cards and Arcane Clips
-Uncut 1st Edition Black Ghost Deck Sheets
-Gaff uncut sheets
-Ultra rare 1st edition Black Ghosts
-Arcane Deck Uncut Sheets
-Ellusionist Street Bag loaded with DVDS
-Thousands of tattoos.

They have put out a special page where they explain how to get all those amazing prizes.

Go check it out now: Ellusionist Holiday Giveaway

Holly shiznit! Check out Brad’s S Fans!!! They are the best I’ve ever seen!!! ¬¬

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We’ll keep it simple and direct…

Here is the deal:

2 Decks Bicycle Standard Playing Cards
2 Bicycle Rider Back Seconds
1 Bicycle Rejuvenate
2 Tally-ho Circle
2 Tally-Ho Fan
2 Ace cartamundi
2 Bicycle Safety Back

Why 13? Because it leaves room for an extra surprise deck. At least one lucky buyer will get a free Bee Watermelon RJRTC deck. Sounds tempting enough?

Go to the Private pack listing here: .thecuso private pack

Don’t forget to mention that you are an avid .thecuso reader during check out to enter the draw.

John Aragi
Aceking Playing Cards

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Just for being subscribed to .thecuso you get a 40% off every deck you order. Isn’t that cool?

Here they are, the Bicycle Alchemist…

The Alchemist deck is an original design created by graphics designer and magician Stephen Rooks.

Sold exclusively at Aceking Playing Cards.

Each deck has a 7 of Spades reveal on the box bottom, a blank face card, and a subtle one way back design.

The back is printed in metalic gold and the areas on the court card typically printed in yellow are also gold.

New sealed in cello wrapped box, the deck is stunning inside and out.

This first edition was limited to 2,000 decks.

As usual we offer special deals to .thecuso readers.

Email john@jtsdeals.com and mention that you are subscribed to .thecuso to get them for just $5.99. That’s a 40% off!!!

And remember that shipping is only $13.50 per 14 decks!!!

Go now to Aceking Playing Cards.

-John Aragi

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Pop out your wallets, it’s Sunday!

This time Aceking brings us a special offer for the “fancy fanning fans that want to have some fun”. (If you don’t get the joke go ask Sebastian Skowron and Dimitri).

I’m talking about the new TETRA deck. We sent a sample to our fanning expert and friend Nebelfuchs for a little overview, here is what he has to say

As the a numerical prefix suggests, it’s a 4 Way (poker size!) Fanning Deck that shows different colors depending on how you fan them.

It seems to be printed on regular bicycle stock with air cushion finish.
Most bicycle decks are good cards for fanning, and so is this one.
The quality seems to be alright. The colors are nice and vivid, the design centered and each card cleanly cut.

The deck comes with 4 bonus cards: 2 Jokers, 1 blank card (for totally blank blank fans!) and 1 additional ace of spades (not sure why they put that in).

The colors on the back design have been well selected and make cool patterns when fanned. The yellow/white quarter appears a little faint, a little more contrast would’ve been better (between the yellow and the white).

The only thing I personally dislike about this deck (and many other fanning decks) lies hidden within design, and only shows when the cards are fanned. Just quartering the back design and re-coloring it isn’t enough. If you, for example, make a broad pressure fan, you’ll have another color coming up at the outer edges at the end of the fan. While this probably isn’t a big deal to most people, it bothers me because it could easily be avoided with a simple, overlapping design (just like on the Dragon Fanning Deck). Maybe on the 2nd edition, MJM?

Overall a very nice deck that should be fun to use for fanning enthusiasts, as well as regular card handlers (that do fanning, lol). There aren’t many good, poker sized fanning decks out there, so this one is definitely worth the buy.

Here is the deal:

1 deck for $7
2 decks for $13
3 decks for $16
6 decks for $32
12 decks for $60. (That’s $5/deck!)

Shipping is $13.50 up to 14 decks so you can browse around Aceking’s for more cool decks.

For more info email Aceking at john@jtsdeals.com and tell him you are subscribed to .thecuso to get your discount.

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There are 7 Jerry’s Nugget decks listed at eBay right now. This might be the chance to get them at a decent price. Here are the links:

Jerry’s Nugget Deck / Cards Signed by Dan and Dave Buck

Jerry’s Nugget Casino Playing Cards Blue Deck RARE

Jerry’s Nugget Casino Playing Cards Red Deck RARE

Jerry’s Nugget Deck Sealed – Blue Color – RARE!!

Authentic Blue Jerry’s Nugget Cards Unopened – RARE

Jerry’s Nugget Playing cards Red not bicycle 100% real!

SEALED Jerry’s Nugget Casino LAS VEGAS playing cards NR

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I have three decks, how many do you have?

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The recently released “Secret Books of De’vo volume 1“, containing four of his underground concepts, has been spotted for sale on eBay.

That auction sounds like a great opportunity for those who missed their chance to get one of the 100 copies first, be it because they haven’t been online for the past few months or just because they “didn’t qualify” to order it.

Maybe an even better opportunity for the seller? Answer in 9 days.

On that topic, someone you probably have seen write a lot on my blog’s comments is preparing a review to be published soon here at .thecuso, stay tuned.

Do you think selling this on a public place like eBay where anyone can buy it is a good idea? Even knowing it was at first released to a selected few?

Good luck bidding!

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Along these years into cardistry I have discovered that most magicians and card guys have a little flaw in their brains that make them fall for any kind of HOAX specially if it’s seasoned with some “hype” powder.

If you are one of those forum addicts that spend more time trash-talking or tweeting about random stuff then you have probably heard about the “One Dollar Jerry’s Nugget’s” Dan and Dave Buck have put up in their store.

I got emails and private messages of people asking if I knew anything about it and all I did was to laugh at them, out loud.

Guys, the only place you will ever be able to get close to a deal like that is at eBay, but you have to be clever, i got myself a sealed deck for no more than 50 bucks a while ago and now I’m going to show you how…

If you are an average eBay user and lets say you want to buy a deck of Jerry’s Nuggets you would go to eBay and search for Jerry’s Nugget Cards or even Jerry’s Nugget Playing Cards.

If you were a more experienced user you would just type in Jerry’s Nugget or rather Jerry Nugget giving you more chances to find your desired auction.

But here is what professional eBay users do to find the real deals: Look for typos.

The next time that you go to eBay try the following:

Jerrys Nugget
Jerrys Nuggets
Jerrys Nugets
Jerrys Nuget
Jerry Nuget

Most of the times you won’t find any listed item with those keywords but trust me when I say it worked for me. All you need is time, patience and some hope for stupid people to sign up at eBay to sell their playing cards.

It will help if you check the “Worldwide” option, this way your chances to stumble upon these typos will increase dramatically, and remember that this works for any kind of product so be creative and never give up.

If you are not the kind of guy that likes to take risks then you might be interested in Lee Asher‘s next big thing. He is going to sell authentic Jerry’s Nugget decks in his online store. Of course they won’t be $1 but it surely be the safest way on Earth to get the right ones. Stay tuned for more info from Asher coming soon to TheCuso’s.

-Alejandro

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