Card Gear: 56Sealed

Card Gear is our monthly feature dedicated to discovering new inventory, setup, and accessories used every day by card designers, cardists, magicians and collectors. The concept originated from the popular social media site, Instagram: #passthepockets. Whenever one of these hashtags come up on the social news feed, there's always something new to discover, no matter who that person is.

This month, we have the EDC of 56Sealed. For the past 5 years, Ryan has been living in Chicago and works for a Proprietary Trading Firm as a Risk Manager. He picked up cards collecting to occupy his down time at work. Researching, tracking down, and acquiring certain decks is both challenging and rewarding!

You can often find Ryan sketching out plans for the next deck display build or researching the back story for his next deck review for Hocus-Pocus Magic. If he's not with his cards, he's probably cooking out, enjoy some drinks with friends, or trying out the newest restaurant in town! His goal for 2017 is to bring a product to market that represents his creativity and allows him to share his passion with the community! Ryan's gear (Italics are Ryan's comments):

+ Jetsetter Playing Cards (Everyday I make sure a deck of open cards in hand).
+ A notebook and something to write with. (These are my essentials and I feel like I forgot something when they are not with me. My daily planner keeps me on track and my notebook allows my brain to run wild! I take notes about ideas and make sketch about future projects and builds. I highly encourage everyone to try keeping a small notebook with them for a month and write down any and every thing!)
+ ID
+ Debit card
+ Transit card
+ Keys
+ Cash
+ Flash drive (for work and such).
+ Iphone (Not shown. Currently my only picture taking device)
+ A magic related book (to be fair I just finished reading the Al Flosso book; The Cony Island Fakar, and haven't picked up a new one yet!)