XQ Forty Nine Cards by Magic Encarta

Bring vivid color and a fresh visual twist to your cardistry fans, spreads, and flourishes with the XQ Forty-Nine Cards by Magic Encarta. Created with digital artist Thorsten Schmitt, this deck gives you countless color combinations to explore as you practice packet cuts and cardistry moves.

Key Features

• Color combinations: The deck offers over 7 undecillion 363 decillion 615 nonillion 666 octillion possible color patterns to create in your displays.
• Deck contents: Includes 49 XQ Forty-Nine cardistry cards, 2 autostereogram cards, a Phenakistoscope card, an artwork card, a Magic Encarta XQ49 style logo card, a possibilities count card, and an ad card with seven colored theme blocks.
• Card construction: The poker-sized cards are printed by The United States Playing Card Company on crushed stock with an air cushion finish.
• Animated illusion: Spin the Phenakistoscope card and film it at 30 FPS using a camera phone or another camera with a digital display. Brighter light makes the animation clearer.
• Hidden 3D images: Relax your vision and look through an autostereogram card, focusing as if on a point behind it, until the hidden 3D object becomes recognizable.

Use the colorful faces to give practice sessions a creative goal, or bring the deck out when you want your cardistry displays to catch the eye. The print run was 1,800 decks.