The new deck order of the Phoenix Deck is slightly different to the Bicycle decks that you may know.
When you look at a deck of cards it starts with the two Jokers and the last two cards are the blank card and the Poker Bingo.
But despite of that you will see that it starts with the Ace of Spades to King. Then comes the Hearts.
And then - reverse - the King of Diamonds to the Ace and King of Clubs to the Ace. This is already optimized for the Tamariz Stack.
What is the Tamariz Stack? It's invented by the great magician Juan Tamariz from Spain.
With his stack you can go from new deck order to Tamariz Stack with four faro shuffles, overhand shuffle and then a partial faro at the end.
I will show you how to do this with the Phoenix deck. Usually the Tamariz Stack would work the other way round:
Top card on the face would be the Ace of Clubs then Ace of Diamonds to King and then the other way round. It would be exactly reversed.
One by one reversed. I surprised Juan Tamariz that with this set up you can also get into the Tamariz Stack.
I will show you how. If you're already familiar with the Tamariz Stack and how to get into it you will see the first step will be exactly the same:
You have to do four out-faros.... I did the first faro. What you'll notice about the set up of the Phoenix is the stay stack order.
A Stay Stack order means that no matter how many faros you do it will always stay in a certain stack. The first and the last cards are mates.
As you see Ace of Spades, Ace of Clubs. King of Diamonds, King of Hearts, etc... Mates, until the center where the red Aces meet in the middle.
Let's continue doing some more faros. That was faro number 4.
If you are familiar with the Tamariz Stack you will notice that it's exactly what you need, only reversed.
You will continue going to Tamariz Stack by doing an overhand shuffle of 26 cards in your other hand.
With Tamariz's you will just bring this back to the top. With Phoenix, because everything is reversed, all you have to do is to place this on top.
And you are done! Now you're exactly where you would've been when you would have started with the original Tamariz Stack new deck order
having the Ace of Clubs at the bottom and the 9 of Clubs on the face. You have to do one final partial faro at the King of Diamonds.
When you look at the cards, cut at the 4 of Clubs - because this is the top card -
and you have a deck perfectly set up in Tamariz Stack. Take the Poker Bingo card and you will see
it starts with the 4 of Clubs, 2 of Hearts and will end with the Ace of Hearts and 9 of Diamonds. That's the Tamariz Stack.