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David Blaine's Gaterbacks sell easily at around the £20 mark. However, as far as I know, they aren't marked, they don't come with any gaff cards and other than the foil backs they aren't custom or even on a rare card-stock.
As a fairly new magician, I struggle to understand why such playing cards are as expensive as they are! Fontaine's are very limited, hence their price... are gaterbacks also very limited? What's so special about them?
Simply because it is a name brand that focuses on quality. Looking at the official site they put an emphasis on quality and combine that with a very big and popular name brand you get a higher price.
Having to license the David Blaine name and brand is most likely very expensive and is why you see a higher price on many name brand products.
