At The Table Playing Cards: Two editions (Lance T. Miller)

[Marcus]

To commemorate the success and excitement of the At The Table Live Lecture Series, the design team at Murphy's Magic brings you two timeless decks of playing cards specially tailored for performers.

With a classically simple but elegant diamond pattern back design, card lovers will be reminded of the good old days of card sharps and handlers.

- Quality-Crafted at the US Playing Card Company
- Superior handling durability
- Slipstream finish to ensure glide and handling
- Limited to 3500 decks


The highly limited signature edition is imbued with the names of your favorite top professionals seen on the At The Table Live Lectures such as Daniel Garcia, Greg Wilson, Joshua Jay, Patrick Kun, Eric Jones and the list goes on.

- Quality-Crafted at the US Playing Card Company
- Superior handling durability
- Slipstream finish to ensure glide and handling
- Very limited edition - 1500 decks printed

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[Marcus]

[Marcus]

There. At least now I can't be accused of teasing these decks to death with blurry pictures and whatnot before their release.

[Cbkimble]

OK, so when and where will these be available? Do you have a predicted price?

[Marcus]

Working on getting you guys an estimated price tag and a few retailer links, I'll keep you posted.

[Fes]

I have to say, I really like the color choices here. I'm particularly fond of the teal colored courts and the golden color card back. The card back is composed well, while being simple. I'm really glad it's not full bleed. These look nice. Don't hold out on us too long Marcus haha. I must know when and where so I can get my mitts on a couple of those signature editions.

[vasta41]

I have to say, I really like the color choices here. I'm particularly fond of the teal colored courts and the golden color card back. The card back is composed well, while being simple. I'm really glad it's not full bleed. These look nice. Don't hold out on us too long Marcus haha. I must know when and where so I can get my mitts on a couple of those signature editions.

+1 on everything you said!

[cosmicsecret]

Hmm...not my cup of tea.

[Mike Ratledge]

I like what I see so far, Marcus!

[Marcus]

Glad to hear that, Mike! These have become somewhat of a personal favorite of mine as I like the relaxed and mellow old school design on them.

[jerichoholic]

Slipstream Finish?

[Marcus]

Slipstream Finish?

Yes. I hear it's made out of ground unicorn hair mixed with tears from a rainbow.

[Mike Ratledge]

Mit sprinkle?

[LanceTMiller]

There's one of my new deck designs. So glad to see them. It was so hard keeping my mouth shut about these.

[sinjin7]

There. At least now I can't be accused of teasing these decks to death with blurry pictures and whatnot before their release.

THANK YOU!!! This is refreshing, and I don't feel like I have to run out and get prescription glasses anymore. I like the back design, but unlike others, I do wish they were full bleed because I just feel that type of pattern lends itself well to a full bleed back. If you had to put borders, I wish you faded them like the Stinger decks from T11.

I think there are a few issues with the Signature Edition, however. First of all, 1500 decks is not super rare anymore, not after EPCC and their common print runs of 1000 decks now. Secondly, I'm assuming the signatures on the tucks are not actual hand signatures, but just mass printed on the tucks (since I find it unlikely these guys would take the time and effort to hand sign 1500 decks). If this is the case, that would lower the value of the deck imo and I think it may have been better off just getting a couple of hundred decks actually hand signed, then that would justify any higher premium that you sell those decks for. Plus, I'm not really liking the incorporation of the signatures printed onto the back design of the cards.

Having said that, I do like the teal color and look forward to picking those up, my collection of unicorn hair and rainbow tears was getting kind of low.

[Mike Ratledge]

Excellent observations, and I will second the "perfect for full bleed"...

Oh, didn't ask: Marcus, are these printed already, like the" Run" trio?

[Marcus]

There. At least now I can't be accused of teasing these decks to death with blurry pictures and whatnot before their release.

THANK YOU!!! This is refreshing, and I don't feel like I have to run out and get prescription glasses anymore. I like the back design, but unlike others, I do wish they were full bleed because I just feel that type of pattern lends itself well to a full bleed back. If you had to put borders, I wish you faded them like the Stinger decks from T11.

I think there are a few issues with the Signature Edition, however. First of all, 1500 decks is not super rare anymore, not after EPCC and their common print runs of 1000 decks now. Secondly, I'm assuming the signatures on the tucks are not actual hand signatures, but just mass printed on the tucks (since I find it unlikely these guys would take the time and effort to hand sign 1500 decks). If this is the case, that would lower the value of the deck imo and I think it may have been better off just getting a couple of hundred decks actually hand signed, then that would justify any higher premium that you sell those decks for. Plus, I'm not really liking the incorporation of the signatures printed onto the back design of the cards.

Having said that, I do like the teal color and look forward to picking those up, my collection of unicorn hair and rainbow tears was getting kind of low.

Thanks for the kind words and the honesty, sinjin7. The signatures are indeed printed and not handwritten as a) we don't want to be responsible for wrecking all those magicians' wrists , and b) they're an integrated part of the design and not just on top of it.

As the decks are already finished up the border will remain the way they are in the picture, but I'll take the borderless/stingers border idea with me as feedback nonetheless. One of the reasons behind not doing a borderless design is that these, as part of the At The Table concept, are aimed at magicians and borderless decks are a lot less popular as they tend to make things harder for its user.

A print-run of 1,500 decks in general isn't very rare in and of itself, I can agree with that. However these are USPCC decks where the minimum print remains at 2,500 decks, and as these will reach a customer base much larger than the majority of 1k print-runs we see produced, I would say that both editions are quite limited. And you know how it is - a bit of hype is bound to appear in ad copies, it's the name of the game.

Excellent observations, and I will second the "perfect for full bleed"...

Oh, didn't ask: Marcus, are these printed already, like the" Run" trio?

I believe they are about to be printed, or already printed and en route to us as we speak.

I believe we're looking at an MSRP around $6.95 for these decks.

[Fes]

I agree and think 1,500 is still quite rare myself, regardless of EPCC printing some of their decks at 1,000 or not. Many of those are great decks but I don't think that comparison comes into play here personally. I'm of the crowd that says up to and including 5,000 deck run can be a rare deck, depending on how they're handled. That's a different conversation entirely though and not really any point in getting into it at the moment.

I think these At The Table playing cards will be quite popular and the popularity will rise. The signature edition has a cool factor to it that certainly has me interested. While I do occasionally go on the hunt, I prefer to avoid the aftermarket as often as I possibly can. A penny saved, all that what. I'm thrilled to hear these are very likely coming in at the seven dollar a deck mark!

[nECr0MaNCeD]

I'll go along with everyone else and say these look great. I also like the stinger-esque idea as well. An idea for V2 maybe? As an aspiring magician I am glad these are not full bleed. I'm sure they would look great but I am a long way from being good enough to work with full bleed cards.

[PlayingCardz]

We will have those real soon

[MagikFingerz]

I'll go along with everyone else and say these look great. I also like the stinger-esque idea as well. An idea for V2 maybe? As an aspiring magician I am glad these are not full bleed. I'm sure they would look great but I am a long way from being good enough to work with full bleed cards.

I'd say a V2 with borderless/stinger borders would fit the gambler-type card handler quite well, and thus still adhere to the "At The Table" theme.

[Marcus]

These decks are available at http://collectableplayingcards.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; now, I'll try and swing by with some more retailers as I get the links.

[rousselle]

Thanks for the heads-up, Marcus. I just placed my order for a couple each.

Now, if only I could get my hands on a Bankroll edition of Run for less than fifty bucks....

[Marcus]

We'll be giving away a deck of the Signature edition during tonight's At The Table with Francis Menotti (as well as in the future) , just a headsup!

[Sparkz]

These decks are available at http://collectableplayingcards.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; now, I'll try and swing by with some more retailers as I get the links.

Marcus you forgot the discount code for CPC 12% Off your entire order when you use Sparkz at checkout............this discount code does not expire, use it in good health.

[LanceTMiller]

Has anyone gotten ahold of any yet? Would love to see some other pics

[badpete69]

Got both my decks in but only got 1 of each so will be keeping them sealed for now

[PrincessTrouble]

I was really disappointed in how off-centered the borders were on the decks I received.

[jerichoholic]

Got both my decks in but only got 1 of each so will be keeping them sealed for now

Never understood the point of this myself, just open them.

Btw I was expecting a lot more customization with these decks. And personally I think it would have been a bit better imo if the standard had the logos on the back instead of the already cluttered signature edition, but maybe that's just me. Just seems like it was unnecessary in an already busy back design.

Btw get them at collectableplayingcards.com and use the code vjose32 for 10% off all orders!