XQ Forty-Nine - Cardistry Deck

The XQ forty-nine deck comes to life after almost 2 years of work as one of the most colorful decks in the history of cardistry.

With this deck, countless different color variations, permutations, and combinations are possible, making your cardistry flourishes look fresh and unique every time!

Magic Encarta is proud to present the XQ Forty-Nine Cardistry deck, in collaboration with award-winning digital artist Thorsten Schmitt. This deck is a celebration of cardistry and creativity.

We hope this deck, with its unique concept, can change your perception of cardistry and take your creativity to the next level. Start your cardistry journey with the XQ Forty-Nine Cardistry Cards.

COMBINATION POSSIBILITIES:
Create over 7 undecillion, 363 decillion, 615 nonillion, and 666 octillion different color patterns with the XQ forty-nine Cardistry cards. Create stunning color patterns in your fans, spreads, and flourishes. Discover and create a new pattern every day for the rest of your life. In fact, you can create a new pattern every second, and it will never end.

Beautiful fans, stunning spreads, and all kinds of flourishes, package cuts, and cardistry moves are brought to life with the XQ forty-nine deck's vivid presentation, which will change your perception of cardistry.

IMPORTANT DETAILS:
• 49 XQ forty-nine cardistry cards
• 2 autostereogram cards
• 1 Phenakistoscope card
• 1 artwork card
• 1 Magic Encarta XQ49 style logo card
• 1 possibility counting card
• 1 advertising card with the 7 colored theme blocks
• Poker-sized cards
• Printed by The United States Playing Card Company
• Printed on crushed stock
• Air cushion finish
• Printed in the USA
• Edition of 1800 card games

WHAT IS THE PHENAKISTOSCOPE MAP:
The phenakistoscope uses the principle of persistence of motion to create an illusion of movement. Although this principle was already recognized by the Greek mathematician Euclid and later in experiments by Newton, it was not firmly established until 1829 by Joseph Plateau.

To see the animation on the map you need:
- the Phenakistoscope card of the XQ card game 49
- a rotation of the card, e.g. with the card rotation movement
- a mobile phone for filming. View the rotating map through a camera phone
or any other camera with a 30 frames per second digital display and watch the map come to life.
- bright light. The brighter the light, the clearer the animation appears.

WHAT IS THE AUTOSTEREOGRAM CARD:
An autostereogram is a single-image stereogram (SIS) designed to create the optical illusion of a three-dimensional (3D) scene from a two-dimensional image. Perceiving 3D shapes in these autostereograms requires overcoming the normally automatic coordination between accommodation (focus) and horizontal convergence (corner of the eye). The illusion is one of depth perception and involves stereopsis: depth perception resulting from the different perspective each eye has on a three-dimensional scene, known as binocular parallax.

This is how you see the autostereogram:
- Relax your vision and unfocus your eyes. Look through the map as if your eyes were focusing on a point behind the map.
– Continue looking in this way until your focus adjusts and the hidden 3D object becomes sharp and recognizable.

• The deck has no faces as it was designed specifically for cardistry.