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= Fontaine Cards =

Design of Fontaine Cards
The Design of Fontaine Cards is very simple, there is only two F upside down with each other on the back of the cards. And it change the color and design of everything else every edition. At first it only changes the color of the back and keep it simple, but later on, so many people saying there is no design in the cards and he just simply want to make money, So he start to design all the different back instead of just changing color of the back.

History of Fontiane Cards
The first deck of fontaine cards is a red fontaine created by Zach Mueller in 2013 Who is very good at Cardistry, He was very boring on that Friday,So he use Photoshop casually put two F on the back and printed out.Then he use this deck and recorded a magic trick video on youtube, surprisingly turns out so many people comments loving it and ask him to print more and sell them. So he printed 2500 deck of Red Fontaine and sell it 15 USD. That's when Zach Mueller use Fontaine Cards to make his first money. Zach than use the money start to create this brand of cards. There is at least one new design of the Fontaine, and time goes by, more and more people start loving this extremely simple design, And Fontaine cards now become one of the best brand in playing cards. Zach said"My future goals are to keeping getting better at cardistry, create even crazier moves and routines, push my cardistry onto platforms it's never been, make more dope Fontaines and dope clothes, travel with my homies, make more videos, more tutorials, more projects and explore new skill cultures to adopt new ways of thinking. "

Marketing of Fontaine Cards
Because Fontaine cards is super popular in Cardistry community, And it always being limited number of the decks, so the prize of Fontaine card resell is very insane. The First edition Red Fontaine is worth 400 USD in 2020 even the release prize in 2013 is 15 USD. Every time 10000 Decks will sold out in 1 minutes. So many people will buy so many decks and sell them much higher prize. More and more deck is selling, so more and more trading is going on, Many people dreamed want a Fontaine card. Zach notice that so he start to make more and more edition, at first only 1deck per year, and then, 3-4, in 2019, he release 15 editions of the Fontaine cards.They even release the blind deck, That have 6 kind of cards in the box, the limited number is 3000-500 decks.People are crazy about it, because there are so many reseller want to just buy the cards and sell it, and the blind decks if appears with the 500 edition, that will also worth 300 USD. Fontaine almost become a luxury cards.

Other brand working with Fontaine
Scince the Fontaine cards be famouse in Cardistry comunity, Fontaine start to work with other company and have a unique design. Something super wild happened. A friend of a friend named JD asked Zach to get coffee, and he pitched Zach the plot of a movie he was making. It was called SLEIGHT, and was about a drug-dealing 20 year old who does magic and cardistry... and has super powers. His sister gets kidnapped by his drug boss, and he has to use his magic, wits and powers to save her. he asked Zach to teach the main character some cardistry. and after a few sessions with the kid, JD asked if he could use Fontaines exclusively in the movie. Zach said yes. And there a Sleight Fontaine came out. The it works With "Chinatown market","Guess","The Good Company","Carrots","Ripndip","Brain dead".That is all fashion company that doing clothing, Gives fontaine so many good designs.

Fontaine Group
Beside Zach,there still some people who doing really good in Cardistry and good friend with Zach, They keeping making new cardistry video and make all the people see the skills of them and the Cards they use.

Sometime the new deck releasing Zach will also ask other people to do the cardistry and he is justing filming, and when there is cardistry-con championship, He also will offer the cards to the final competition.

Fontaine Cardistry competition
In 2020, Fontaine cards is doing a casuistry championship, That it is not every year cardistry-con, it is simply Fontaine cards competition over the world. Ever cardists will show one move and pick up 8 people doing the competition. But they have to use one of the Fontaine cards, and the champion will get 10000 USD pries, compare the every year cardistry-con gives champion 5000 USD, Fontaine Cardistry competition is much more attractive to the cardists.

Reference
1.Zach Mueller Fontaine origins

http://www.fontainecards.com/fontaineorigin

2.Fontaine cards youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/user/zachmonky/featured

3.cardistry-con

https://www.cardistry-con.org/about

4.Cardistry infomation

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