@wdm1219inpenna:
It\'s the full deck of 52, with no jokers; I doubt any were ever made, since the
gameplay of Gambit doesn\'t require them. There\'s no way I can take a picture
of all of the cards at once without a stepladder, and I don\'t think my living
room floor is big enough to spread them all out on anyway. Upon closer
inspection, some of what I originally thought were stains are actually spots in
the cardboard itself, while others are mysterious shiny splotches or scuff
marks. In my experience, on (what seems to be so far) a one-of-a-kind item
like this, it\'s best to just leave them alone.
Well they didn\'t have to be perfect cards- just enough to be seen clearly on TV without any major marks visible. I\'m wondering if the scuff marks/splotches have to do with how the cards were sealed after they were shuffled? The CS cards were put in a giant envelope and taped shut, but it looked like (from the surviving ep) the Gambit cards had some sort of a paper band put on them- I wonder how often they made new decks? (I also remember that on a Perry CS ep a card got damaged when the freeze bar got caught in it when it was moving- they didn\'t necessarlily have to junk the deck, just make a new replacement card). Plus you think they\'d have to have several decks to work with for each taping session (figure they needed 4-5 for each episode, since they used a new deck for each match and each bonus game)...
