All bicycle packs come in the same order. From the top, you get your two advertising cards, Ace to King of Hearts, Ace to King of Clubs, King to Ace of Diamonds, King to Ace of Spades, and finally the small joker followed by the big joker. Magicians (and no one else) call this new deck order.
Not all decks, however, are arranged in this order. The first trick printed in Card Mastery by Michael Macdougall, first published in 1944, requires all the values in each suits to be lined up in sequence. He also noted that some decks could be in a different order and the magician may be required to count off the cards to create the proper set up.
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