Charity Deck Sale - Update: All Gone
/[Update: These are all gone. If you missed out and you’re desperate to get your hands on one of these for some reason, let me know. Once everything gets sent out I’ll know if there’s an extra of any given deck hanging around and I can set you up with that.
Thanks to everyone who purchased a deck or decks.]
This is the final post of October. New posts will return on November 1st. That same day the next issue of the Love Letters monthly will be in subscriber’s emails. If you’re a subscriber at the family tier and have an ad for the next issue, try to get it to me by the 25th or so.
I’ve decided to get rid of the extra decks I have from previous support years. I haven’t really known what to do with these in the past. The decks were a reward for people who supported at a mid-level tier that was $60 more than the tier below. So those people paid, essentially, $60 for the deck.
Now, one thing I won’t do is sell something at a discount to get rid of it. I’d rather just toss it out. I don’t like screwing over people who supported the site early on by offering stuff for cheaper later on. I realize that’s how things are done. But I still find it to be a bummer when it happens to me, so I don’t want to do that to others.
That being said, I don’t just want to sell these decks for $60 either. These were intended to be bonuses for supporters at the time. Not some way to make money later on.
So now the decks are being made available for $60 each, but proceeds will be split between two charities: Save the Children (the highest rated children’s charity I could find) and a local food bank near me (because I want to do something for my specific area as well).
There are links to purchase the decks below along with a brief description of each deck.
I will ship the decks early next month. So you will have the perfect gift to show your wife how loved she is, well in time for Christmas.
Jerx Deck #1
This was the deck that was included with the very first book I released. Features custom jokers and Ace of Spades.
This deck was printed by Expert Playing Card Company.
Jerx Deck #2: Squishers
Based on the Bulldog Squeezers back design.
This deck also includes a fake advertising card that’s used for a reveal in a trick of mine called Shitshow. I’ll include a pdf with instructions for that trick with any orders for this deck.
Jerx Deck #3 - Fannies
This is probably the dumbest idea for a Jerx deck, and hence, one of my favorites.
The idea started as a joke in this post, and became a reality a few years later.
Instead of red and black pips, this deck uses brown and pink pips which allow a new equivocal statement (as explained in the post above).
The back design continues the butt/vagina duality of the equivoque.
Jerx Deck #4 - Mushroom Sprites
The viral sensation. Millions of views on TikTok can now be yours.
The Goodfriends Greeting Company (a Christian greeting cards and other paper goods company based in the midwest U.S.) put out this deck in 1974. The card backs were intended to be delicate fairies dancing around the head of a mushroom. That’s… not what other people saw in the back. (It’s still unknown if the designer intended this.) The deck was pulled from the shelves weeks after its release. They sat in storage for decades until 2020 when the remaining decks were finally made available. Or so you tell people.
Jerx Deck #5 - Empoisonneurs
I wrote years ago about why it’s good to have a “bad marked deck.” My idea there is basically this… People already know about the concept of “marked decks,” but most people have never seen one. So if you show them a bad marked deck, but you just act as if it’s a normal marked deck. Then they will assume marked decks are much less useful than they really are.
It’s similar to the concept in magic where you talk about “palming” a card and openly expose a bad palm. If people assume palming involves a stiff, cramped hand, with part of the card peeking out, they’ll be less apt to think of palming when you use it later and your hand looks normal.
With the Empoisonneurs, I made a professionally printed “bad marked deck.”
As I write in the instructions for this marked deck, what makes it bad is:
1. It's labelled on the card case as a marked deck. ("The first thing you can do to check for a marked deck is look at the card case. By law all of them need to indicate it's a marked deck. So if you don't see that, you're probably safe.")
2. The markings are easy to spot.
3. But the markings require a lot of work to decode.
4. You need to see the full back of the card to know the markings.
5. The markings only work in one orientation of the card, and it's very difficult to know the orientation of the card.
If you purchase this deck, I’ll send you a pdf explaining the general ways of how I introduce it into an interaction with the people I perform for.
I’ll try to update this page if/when any of the decks sell out. It shouldn’t allow you to buy one if they’re sold out. But I’ll keep this page updated regardless. There aren’t a lot of any of these decks to go around. The only reason I have any extras is because I sometimes had to round up my order 15 or 20 units in order to get a price break when they were originally printed. So while I don’t think these will sell out immediately—like the books do—don’t wait too long if there’s one you want.
Enjoy the rest of the month! See you all back here on the first.
