In August 1998 Wizards of the Coast released a poker deck box which includes two complete poker decks plus two advertisement cards which promote other Magic products. These decks featured the Wizards of the Coast logo on the one Joker and the Ace of Spades. On the frontsides, the Yaquinto Printing Company, Inc is mentioned.

It consisted of 52 standard playing cards plus 2 jokers for a total of 54 cards and again used regular Magic backsides. In 1994, those signing up for 'Legend Membership' received a Magic-backed poker deck printed by Yaquinto Playing Cards, among other items. One newsgroup posting describes the decks being printed after Alpha (late 1993), and given out just after Antiquities was released (March/April 1994).Īs mentioned in the Duelist Companion #20 (April 1996), DCI membership was previously split into two levels. They are distinguishable from the DCI/Yaquinto decks by the presence of the 'Made in Belgium' text on the Ace of Spades and on one Joker. They have standard Magic card backs, yet the faces are of one of Carta Mundi's standard poker decks.

The decks were printed at about the same time as Alpha by Carta Mundi. In 1993, or early 1994, Carta Mundi presented Peter Adkison with a box of about 200 poker decks with regular Magic card backs These were distributed among investors, employees and distributors as business gifts.

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