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The Identity Deck by Phil Smith // now on KICKSTARTER

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With twenty years of graphic design and creative problem solving under his belt, designer, writer and magic inventor Phill Smith is perhaps best known for his work with Drummond Money-Coutts on the industry standard DMC ELITES playing cards.

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The incredible Identity deck - each playing card in the deck has on its face a different personality archetype, a different iconic image, and a different background. The deck is rich with meaning, and perfect for combining visual magic with quick punchy personality readings.

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The royals have as their faces the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the two jokers represent duality, being marked with up and down, yes and no, ying and yang. These layers of meaning allow you to explore the more esoteric metaphysical approach to magic in your performances, and to help you create miracles we have built the deck with a whole load of magical helpers.

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The deck is marked with a unique Constellation reader system. The cards can be quickly and easily identified from a distance, at a glance, meaning you can always stay one step ahead of the situation. The system requires no decoding or working out - if you can see the card back you instantly know the card - but it’s hidden in such a way that spectators will never spot it.

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The deck arrives pre-arranged into a Identity Stack - a powerful easy-to-use stacked deck system that is based on Lewis Jones’ famous memory deck. To help make the system even easier the backs are also marked with the numerical position of each card in the Identity Stack, meaning you can always quickly get the deck into stack.

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In the age of audiences Googling tricks the moment they see them, Phil wanted to add a layer of insulation to the Identity deck, and although the original prototypes were boxed as Identity deck, you can see from these photos that the production deck has a different name on the tuck box, one that won’t even mention here to stop it from being Googleable.

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To this end they are having them printed by USPCC in the USA, on their premium stock, with the world-leading USPCC linen finish

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It's pretty clear from the backs that this deck is marked. But man, the front of the cards are not cohesive at all. Pass.
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I'm no magician, so maybe I'm not the target audience anyways but I don't know what I would have to do with a deck like that. The campaign is full of hard hitting magic, but no trailer that shows what to do with that deck that is so ground breaking opposing to a normal deck of cards. Constellation reader back? New? Orbit may have a word here, lol. Not that it is a genuine original idea anyways.
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It reminds me of the work done by Matteo Filippini's who has made some KS projects with that same approach on tarot / divination / oracle, etc... I have some of his decks and they're usable if you're into that sort of things. I don't see any collector jumping on these as it's a little too out-there.
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I don't know. As a writer, I could see having one of these lying around to occasionally help with brainstorming a character or the like, but not for $27 shipped. (And, that's the early bird price.)
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Azazaaz wrote:...same approach on tarot / divination / oracle, etc...
Agreed, there's a whole niche out there for this sort of thing... but the marking system seems totally tacked on and doesn't really mesh :?
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Well, at least that deck is a specifically Magician designed deck with non-standard courts! Better than so many others using standard USPCC courts and use the magician deck as the reason for not even doing a color tweak.

I like that they thought to change the name so that the trick remains a secret and doesn't get spoiled by anyone googling the trick.
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what I have found from Phil Smith's other marked decks - is that oddly enough the camera makes the markings obvious, but in "real life" they are not that pronounced. I have no idea .. someone will probably chime in that it's "science" and I'll nod my head and agree, but secretly have no idea if they're right or not
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