FHLEX Deck by Jeff Copeland - Live on KS

[MagikFingerz]

I know there aren't a whole lot of cardists here, and even less fans of cardistry decks, but I thought these were interesting enough to share. If I had plenty of disposable income, I'd probably get a deck just to see if the shape lends itself to cardistry.

[Harvonsgard]

Saw this ghosting around on reddit in the last couple of days. It is an intersting novelty deck, but that is about it. I don't think that the cardistry crowd will be interested enough in this project.

If I had plenty of disposable income, ...

If...

[theCapraAegagrus]

Are these playing cards? Do they have faces?

[Harvonsgard]

Are these playing cards? Do they have faces?

Kinda. And nope.

[Outsider]

From the campaign:

The deck is technically a oneway, alternated double-backer. “In English, please!” The face and back of each card are identical, that’s a double back. But the pictures are not mirror images across the center lines because one bird has wings up and the other wings down. That’s called a oneway deck. Then, the front and back side images are transposed. This alteration creates a thaumatrope when the card is spun on it's top and bottom corners and viewers are given the beautiful illusion of the hummingbirds flying!

Hate to say it but I kinda like this deck. Hummingbirds are nice. The shape at least looks cool. But I can't do all that fancy spinning cards crap, I can grind out a dozen or so flourishes and, at least in my mind, it seems most of them depend quite a bit on having a rectangular deck. Am I willing to buy a deck that looks kinda neat, in the hopes that someday my cardistry becomes good enough to actually make use of this deck, so I can perform amazing visual effects for the audience I don't have and never will?

Probably not. On the other hand, I like curious things so who knows.

Also, the art reminds me a lot of this beer can art:

[jerichoholic]

Not even sure who would print these nor do they specify. If you want these take a deck of cards and clip the corners, simple enough

[Harvonsgard]

Not even sure who would print these nor do they specify.

Cartamundi released a deck with an odd shape, therefore it wouldn't be too hard to produce this. A serious campaign should always mention the printer though. It always shows that the creator did some sort of homework.

[STLBluesNut]

These are at least different, but not for me. The name is the part that irritates me for some reason. Or the spelling of it.

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[RWPPFFShuffle]

I know there aren't a whole lot of cardists here, and even less fans of cardistry decks, but I thought these were interesting enough to share. If I had plenty of disposable income, I'd probably get a deck just to see if the shape lends itself to cardistry.

I'm a fan of some cardistry decks (I do own fontaines and a few A1WW decks) and a dabbler of cardistry, but I see zero point in getting these. If they were normal poker-sized cards with that back design, I would have taken a closer look. I also agree the name is ill-fitting. I get that it's supposed to be a combination of "Flex" and "Hex," but it's definitely not flexible since there's only one, somewhat impractical, use. Anyways, I hope someone's creative enough to come up with something cool using a hexagonal deck, but until then, this is a deck that makes it harder to learn any cardistry moves...so...no thanks.

[theCapraAegagrus]

These are certified trash.