The Red Artifice was originally created as an exclusive deck for use by Ellusionist artists and staff. Due to high public demand it instead became the first Limited deck offered for public sale. Of the 5000 decks printed, only 3000 were sold - the rest were held in reserve for gifts, prizes and promotions.

These are genuine playing card sheets - pulled off the presses at the United States Playing Card Company before they had a chance to be cut and packaged in boxes. There are only a very few number of these sheets available.