Having travelled the world for years in search of the perfect card finish, the fruits of DMC’s extensive travels are finally here … the ELITES V5: PHANTOM FINISH.

Using a slightly thicker stock, this finish is both more robust and long-lasting than many of the slimmer cardistry decks of today, and promises a much firmer handling of the cards. When coupled with Phill Smith’s world-famous ‘Optical Marking System’ (which now includes full four-corner markings, Juan Tamariz’s genius MNEMONICA numberings and a unique one-way back design), we believe this is truly the most powerful, comprehensive and usable deck ever created for magicians. The deck even arrives in Mnemonica stack, ready to go right out of the box!

With a LIMITED 1st EDITION run of just 1000 decks (printed in cobalt blue for the very first time), this deck marks a pivotal transition in the timeline of ELITES playing cards – now deck of choice to many thousands of professional magicians worldwide and voted by United Cardists as ‘The Greatest Deck for Magicians’ available in the world today.

Included within each deck is a language-free instruction card that clearly explains the marking system, a two way ‘crib’ card (that allows you to glimpse the full Mnemonica stack with ease) and two custom DMC jokers, one with an inbuilt card reveal. As with the previous ELITES V5s, the card faces have also been upgraded to an ultra high-definition rendition of the standard faces, and also feature a uniquely brilliant one-way marking system on the cards’ indices themselves.