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sounds like a plan, how about vancouver since our dollar is worth nothing these days (so traveling to the US is extra expensive lol)

Lotrek mentioned to me this morning that an update on Qalif will be coming shorlty.

My top 10 Lotrek Decks:

1.Golden Oath
2.Arabesque Silver
3.Icons Imperial
4.Damask Blue
5.Black Patrons (White is just as good)
6.Icons Signature
7.Royal Silk Red
8.Icons Anniversary
9.Crypt
10.The Entertainer



11.Fable
12.Liturgy Black
13.Venexiana Gold

Great list!

I feel compelled to express my top10 Lotrek decks:

1. Venexiana Gold - it’s where my obsession for Lotrek started, and it also took me a long while to finally secure a copy. But for the whole time I was buying by the thousands left and right, Venexiana Gold has always been my deepest desire
2. Blue Golden Oath - I know I should just say Golden Oath and call it a day but I have a weird fascination for the Blue one. Maybe it’s the missing tuck, the fact that it gets straight in your face with the ace of spade, the stock color or the numbered carat I dunno.
3. Crypt - I love the mystery, the anonymous brown paper case and when you open it, Jesus. First time my jaw dropped to the floor, I love the intricacies, the multiple foils, the details, everything.
4. Blue Damask - when you spread first time and you feel the cards under your fingers, it feels incredible
5. Arabesque Silver - before being obsessed with Venexiana Gold, I was obsessed with Arabesque. Again the intricacies, I was blown away by the pictures, it was something I never saw before and I remember looking on Amazon where I found the three Player’s versions. Young me was very satisfied back then but once I got Gold and Silver years later, oh boy.
6. ICONS Imperial Reverse - the tuck is luscious, the story of the deck makes me shake a little when I hold it in my hands, even through the carat case. It’s probably the most valuable deck I own, and maybe this has some influence on the placement.
7. Qalif - I have to, despite the randomness that might give most of the time a flawed deck. Aside from that, the deck is gorgeous and has a “heaviness” that I like.
8. Royal Silk Red - (Gold/Silver) - of all the Royal Silk variations, this one is as close as it gets to perfection.
9. Tale of the Tempest Prism - what can I say? I like shiny things.
10. Venexiana Signature Editions - just for the hand drawn jokers. I’m just that easily impressed.

Thanks Jason, I’m really loving reading these!!!

Are we now sharing Top 10 Lotrek decks? Alrighty, guess I'll share mine - although I am not able to majority of older Lotrek decks, because I discover Lotrek too late, so here is mine:

My Top 10 Lotrek Decks

1. Qalif = Haven't got the deck in my hands yet, but since it shares the same artworks as Mystery III Craft and seeing Willow's photos, I fell in love with the color scheme
2. Mystery III Craft = The amount of details are just very amazing. I definitely amazed on the amount of patterns I see done in hot foiling.
3. Royal Silk Purple = The cards are ALL Gold foil, the artworks, the patterns, everything in gold.
4. Tale of the Tempest Dynastinae = From the tuck box to the cards, the craftmanship is exceptional. While it suffers a reprint (ya know the story), learning the technique in producing the cards intrigues me.
5. Tale of the Tempest Wylenti = The beauty of this deck lies on the patterened borders as well as the inverted back done in gold foil. And what makes this special: the deck was available in the campaign for killer cheap price!
6. The Golden Rule = Love Lotrek's artistic rendition of the old Shakespeare deck. I only owned the Standard one - must be nice to see the Foiled edition...
7. Silk Players = The gold ink plus the shiny gold gilding (so shiny you can see your fingers reflection) is so bling bling blong.
8. Sanctitimus = Love the back design - how it almost resembles Christianity art tome (still hoping for Lotrek to create another Christianity art deck very soon).
9. ICONS Anniversary = Getting this is sort of my redemption of missing the OGs.
10. The Charmers Playing Cards = Classic playing cards designed for magician Kellar O'Neil. One of the Jokers is interesting, hot foil silver to be like a mirror. Although mine has the missed registration, so the foil for that mirror didn't sit in the frame.