The most desired cardistry decks of this season - VIRTUOSO - are now available in our shop. What you see is the text provided by thevirts website, where they explain why you have to buy these cards, meticulously breaking down all their qualities.

"How the Virtuoso deck makes all your card flourishes look that much better?

While most decks have intricate or overly plain back designs that diminish how your flourishes look, the Virtuoso deck is the first and only deck that takes every move you do to its maximum visual potential. Every single shape, line, and color on the Virtuoso deck exists to make your Cardistry look even better. Guided by the principles of movement and aesthetics, our team began by breaking down countless card flourishes to their core movements and forms. From there, a design that visually amplified the way cards moved and interacted with each other was crafted.

The result? Adaptive Aesthetics — A versatile design architecture that gives the appearance of connecting patterns, changing colors, strobing lines, and swirling shapes to makes everything you do immediately look better than ever. 

How the Virtuoso deck transforms the way your Cardistry looks and feels? It’s known as the best handling deck in the industry. The Virtuoso deck faros smoothly, fans creamily, splits into packets cleanly, and stays together when flying through the air. Cardists call it the one deck that feels broken-in right out of the box; with handling so addictive they “can't put it down”.

It’s also known as the most durable deck in the industry. The Virtuoso deck is made with a patented process, crafted with the finest materials, and tested with the Q1 quality control standard. That’s why it clumps less and last longer than regular decks.

It has an edge-to-edge back design. Unlike bordered decks which water down your flourishes, the Virtuoso deck’s edge-to-edge design magnifies each shape for maximum visual impact, and liberates the cards to seamlessly interact with one another to establish new forms. It’s all design. No borders.

It forms visual color-changing fans on the back. With the Virtuoso deck, your fans change color depending on which way you fan the cards, form different patterns depending on how many cards you use, and look bigger, bolder, and more blade-like.

It creates connected, streamlined, spreads on the faces. The Virtuoso deck’s back design wraps over to the face to paint multiple streaks of color when spread. In fans, the wraparound stripes visually accentuate the curvature of all your fans, magnifying them and giving them more flow than ever.

It forms three-dimensional flowing cascades. The Virtuoso deck’s back design causes your springs and cascades to visually connect in 3D space, making them look smoother, flow better, and become immensely more visual. 

It magnifies your cuts and displays on the back. The Virtuoso deck’s geometric shapes conform to any direction your packets are in and intersect to form a prism of smaller shapes. The extending lines also make your flourishes appear to expand outwards. This way, the smallest cuts you do look incredibly visual from across the room, and the biggest displays become truly epic.

It creates a surreal optical illusion when spinning. Spin a Virtuoso card at high speed, and its long white lines create a strobing optical illusion on camera called the “wagon wheel effect”. And at lower speeds, the shapes and lines swirl beautifully to complement every rotation.

Its iconic Ace of Spades is a statement of design. Inspired by Adaptive Aesthetics, its unique shape is derived by intersecting the back design's long white lines. This reveals a beautiful geometric spade; perhaps the most iconic Ace of Spades on any deck of cards.

It’s designed with gorgeous court cards. Every single one of our court cards was re-imagined as modern takes of their classic French designs, with beautifully illustrated faces, meticulously designed clothing, and hands traced from photographs of our own.

It includes four beautiful connecting Art Cards. Slide the Virtuoso deck out of its case, and you’ll be greeted with four art cards that tell the story of the Virtuoso deck. Flip them around, and they connect to form the FW17’s back design. They’re so beautiful, our customers frame and display them on their walls.

Its wraparound tuck case connects to create patterns. Place multiple tuck cases together, and they connect to different patterns. Each tuck case is also made from a paper that is sturdier than most others, making it more resistant to scratches, yet wonderfully smooth to the touch.

It’s safe for your hands, and so eco-friendly that it’s edible. The FW17 Virtuoso deck is proudly produced in the USA, crafted with paper mindfully sourced from sustainable forests, and is even printed with environmentally friendly water-based ink. In fact, our cards are so eco-friendly, they’re edible (we’re not kidding)."

To buy Virtuoso playing cards in Europe, USA and the rest of the world, please visit this link.

All photos and original text are taken from the Virtuoso website.