Bicycle cards are great. Just great. Good enough to get decent practise with, good enough to perform with and one doesn’t get too precious about them.

They do bring out novelty decks on occasion.

These are lovely Dragon backed decks. Comes in a variety of colours. Of course I went Green.

I love how the courts and aces are standard apart from the colour.

I have no fuckin idea what this is about. A mystery deck from Merchant of Magic.

Looks to be another one of those Cutsey things designed to sell pencil cases to Manga fans.

The cards are pretty decent. Clearly for cardistry.

Theory 11 do produce some lovely cards. This is my favourite deck. This deck *in particular*

This is a well loved and carried about deck. The very few tricks I know so far were learned on these.

The tuck case is beautiful. Embossed with gold – this one is quite worn.

I love the design

Between two evils, you must always choose the lesser one.

Oh I love this deck.

These are a work of art. Theory 11 tend to have very good cards, my favourite being Monarch (in green of course)

Also available in white, two jokers and a double backer.

For showing off or flirting. The Ladies dig a deck of cards.

How come you’re single, Stephen?

Shut up. Is this your card

These really are lovely. Designed by Joshua Jay so they will have cardistry and magic in mind.

Two blank faces, two jokers.

This is another deck where even the Tuck case is lovely. The cards feel nice and spread smoothly.

I love the little differences in colour we get with these.

Here we have pretty much the industry standard for magicians bicycle playing cards.

The standards, red or in this case blue. Best bang for your buck. Good quality cards and if you pay more than a fiver for a deck then you are being had. You wouldn’t be so precious about them as a more expensive pack so happily mutilate them to make gaffs etc.

They are available in a variety of colours, i love the green rider backs on account of being a big mad mick.

These come with gaff cards pre made, so tricks in mind of the designer then.

Basically buy a brick of these, The Royal Road to Card Magic and get very frustrated 🙂

These were a lovely gift ftom a chum of mine, Jessica.

I’m not exactly sure what era they are from. Fairly recent I’d say.

The cards are on USPCC stock so if you’re familiar with Bicycle brand these will feel much the same.

No jokers but three wild cards and an advert card.

These are really cool in my opinion. Jessica clearly took care of them.

I must get one of those display cases.

A deck of cards designed to celebrate the Historic Gas Lamp area of San Diego

These cards are designed by Jeff Trish https://www.behance.net/Jefftrish and distributed by Art of Play https://www.artofplay.com. I got them from The Merchants of Magic https://magicshop.co.uk/ as a mystery deck

The cards are gorgeous to hold and look at. Maybe a bit of colour on the backs? Nevertheless beautiful. The tuck case is a work of art in itself.

There is a lovely effect when you combine the two jokers together to reveal one whole picture.

Deck comes with a blank face and a double-back for the cardists and tricksters amongst us.