Cibola Standard Edition Luxury Playing Cards

Great tuck box though

Ok so these are a little confusing. Good things and not so good things. The good: The tuck box is very well made and very sturdy. The card backs are gorgeous, orange with shimmery gold. I like that the face cards have a smaller margin so that they can be larger. The playing cards themselves riffle shuffle like butter. The not so good: Can't faro shuffle them no matter how broken in they get. They are very flimsy. The flimsyness is reminiscent of if you go to Hawaii and pick up a deck of playing cards in a souvenir shop. Yet at the same time they feel weirdly nice, so it's confusing. The ink looks like the deck was printed when it was almost out of ink and the colors run outside of the lines on a lot of the face cards (maybe that was the look they were going for, if so, perfection). However the backs are perfect. Overall I can't say the quality of these cards is USPCC quality, but they were on sale and I don't regret buying them for $8.

More Cities of Gold!

Series of the year, in my opinion. For context I'm a poker player, so I prefer custom yet standard decks. These look very nice next to the original Federal 52 series. I would LOVE to see a red deck among the Cities of Gold.