I found a couple of links to playing cards history and trivias.
Not exactly magic but it would make for great patter material I think.
Now you can tell the story about why the 9 of Diamonds is known as the Curse of Scotland.
Here they are:
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/playing-cards/and
http://www.wopc.co.uk/
Thanks, Aloy. Good information for cardicians everywhere.
Thumbs up.
i love to read them. ;)
thanks
:D I foresee using some of that information as patter in the future. Thanks.