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“AS A MAGICIAN, your job is to perform,” said Dan Buck, 32, who, along with his twin brother, Dave Buck, helped create and popularize the performance art of card shuffling known as cardistry. “Why not have your own custom deck of playing cards?”

When the Southern California-based Buck boys started showcasing their card illusions more than a decade ago, just a half-dozen or so notable new decks would debut annually. Now, with the popularity of card-design projects on Kickstarter, there were probably “85 decks released last…