Marked Card Set from MckeeJin - these should be illegal

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Magic Review - Marked Card Set from MckeeJin
Review Copy Provided By - https://mckeejin.com/

Video review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll866Rfo6C0

The poker cheat will mark cards to help themselves win in a game. They typically mark the cards that will help them make decisions such as high cards in regular gameplay or game specific cards, such as wild cards, for other games.

Daubing is when a cheat uses a pen with special ink to mark the card and uses special sunglasses (usually red lensed) to see the mark. The ink is not visible to the others at the table, but it is visible to the cheat with the special red lenses.

These cards .... have been pre-daubed for you.

Just pop in the contact lenses - and you'll see the world is a whole new way

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Marked Card Set from MckeeJin - these should be illegal

But these are in fact illegal, surely. It's printed in China, because there is no way that USPCC would ever print something like this (and not just because they are plastic cards). To begin with, they're deliberately geared to look like a normal Bee deck, and in the process they violate USPCC's trademarks, and wouldn't be considered "fair use" of their intellectual property.

That's not surprising though, because their products are obviously marketed towards card cheats. That puts them on ethically shaky ground to begin with, and in my view makes it morally questionable. As the review points out, this isn't really a product design for doing card magic, but for cheating people out of money playing gambling games.

Basically these are useless unless you wear the contact lenses though, right? So if you wear prescription contact lenses, you're immediately out of luck anyway. And if you don't normally wear contact lenses, coloured lenses are immediately going to make your eyes look weird. You might get away with this if you're around strangers, but not with any people who know what you normally look like.

But even then you'd have to take the risk of putting things into your precious eyes that are made by a company that specializes in customers who are card cheats, not a company that specializes in eye care. You won't catch me doing that. But if you're going to review these, surely you'd at least have to try doing that, and tell us how that went.

Maybe I'm being overly harsh, but it seems to me that there's a whole lot of reasons not to give these guys any positive press, quite frankly.