There is a second version with the tuck embossed.

Photos and description are courtesy of Matt Hessler.

Genuine Bicycle Playing Cards This deck follows the legendary 130 year old Bicycle tradition, while enhancing both the look and the feel. Each poker size card features a full color variation of the standard Bicycle faces.

Improved Playability Standard size black indexes with four differently colored suit markers; green clubs, yellow diamonds, red hearts and blue spades. Easily recognizable suits help to speed up the play time of any game by visually separating them with only a glance. Perfect for Texas Hold'em, Rummy, Hearts, Spades, and any game that traditionally uses multi colored decks such as Bridge no-revoke, Italian Machiavelli, and German Skat.

High Durability Made with the highest quality casino grade (Bee) paper and finish available from the United States Playing Card Company. These cards are meant to outlast every other low cost deck.

Bonus Cards 56 cards including a special "Black Maria" card and the rules for playing the game of Hearts.

Cards Feature a Gold trace of the Traditional 808 Designed Back that can be used in any standard 52 card game and even includes 2 Gaff cards to do a magic card trick called Million Dollar Monte. The jokers are fun looking court jesters done in colorful clipart. The Ace of spades is done in a 3 Dimensional cube design that mimics the US Playing card one they had on the Bee Cambric back cards in the 2003. Cards measure standard poker size 2.5" x 3.5" regular index and are made with High Quality Bicycle Playing Card Stock.

Earlier this year The Magic Firm offered our first custom deck: Bicycle Insignia Back. It exceeded our expectations and hit its funding goal in just 16 hours. It continued to dominate and we unlocked the beautifully minimalist White edition. We came SO CLOSE to unlocking additional colors. We've printed and delivered the original run and couldn't be happier. To say the Black and White editions turned out great is an understatement. We love them, and the responses we've gotten have been through the roof. Based on the feedback we've gotten (and let's face it, our own desire to hold them in our hands) we've decided to do a new campaign for the Insignia Back deck with the classic Red and Blue colors. We will be using the exact same colors that US Playing Card uses for their Red and Blue Rider Back Bicycle decks.

Earlier this year The Magic Firm offered our first custom deck: Bicycle Insignia Back. It exceeded our expectations and hit its funding goal in just 16 hours. It continued to dominate and we unlocked the beautifully minimalist White edition. We came SO CLOSE to unlocking additional colors. We've printed and delivered the original run and couldn't be happier. To say the Black and White editions turned out great is an understatement. We love them, and the responses we've gotten have been through the roof. Based on the feedback we've gotten (and let's face it, our own desire to hold them in our hands) we've decided to do a new campaign for the Insignia Back deck with the classic Red and Blue colors. We will be using the exact same colors that US Playing Card uses for their Red and Blue Rider Back Bicycle decks.

Bicycle Insignia Back is the first custom deck of playing cards from The Magic Firm. Printed by the US Playing Card Company, the Insignia Back deck embodies a timeless feel. The iconic Bicycle logo adorns the card backs in a classic casino-style placement, creating a simple elegance that makes a bold statement.

Bicycle Insignia Back is the first custom deck of playing cards from The Magic Firm. Printed by the US Playing Card Company, the Insignia Back deck embodies a timeless feel. The iconic Bicycle logo adorns the card backs in a classic casino-style placement, creating a simple elegance that makes a bold statement.

The most limited deck ever released by Theory11, with less than 1 gross being sold. This deck is not an officially released print run but rather the result of a mistake in printing. During the implementation of metallic gold to the deck the execution of printing was not up to standard and the full run was trashed - with the exception of a gross. This deck should be considered an "error" deck rather than a full public release deck. For those looking for the Gold Monarchs featuring hot foil gold on the cards (rather than just metallic gold) please refer to the later edition here: https://www.Portfolio52.com/deck/3690/view

An unlimited SILVER edition printing of our critically-acclaimed Monarch Playing Cards, widely respected as "the world's finest playing cards."

In 2011, we released the original Monarchs, featuring gold foil, navy blue paper, and elegant, sleek, minimalistic design. A triumph of form and function, the designed was featured on Luxist, The Die Line, Hollywood motion pictures, and high fashion publications.

Today, we present a new, unlimited edition: Silver Monarchs. Dressed in white, and printed on FSC-certified paper with embossed, silver foil. The Silver Monarchs are fit for a king and as striking as ever.

Limited Edition Gold-on-Gold

The box is just as breathtaking as the cards within it. For the first time, Monarchs are printed with gold foil on gold paper, deeply embossed and - now more than ever - truly fit for a king.

 

Gold Foil Card Backs

Unlike ANY other Playing Cards

For six months, we’ve been keeping one secret closely guarded. In collaboration with USPC, we began testing an experimental new process, for the first time applying gold foil DIRECTLY on the back of playing cards.

The cards are then processed with Bicycle’s most durable finish - resulting in a card that spreads, fans, shuffles, and tears just like a normal playing card. Based on research at USPC, they’re 400% more durable and 30% more flexible than any other foil application. Scratch them, twist them, tear them, bend them - the foil doesn’t come off.

The Green Monarch box is uniquely composed of two layers - it’s the most durable tuck case we’ve ever made. Monarch playing cards are Made in the USA on FSC-certified paper derived from sustainable forests. The cards themselves are printed with vegetable-based inks.

Version One: First Printing- Thick gold band around deck.

Description and gallery photos taken from Theory11 website:

Premium, designer playing cards produced in collaboration with Steve Cohen, "The Millionaires’ Magician,” star of Chamber Magic®, a headline show at the prestigious Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.

In August 2013, we began a quest to create playing cards fit for display at the legendary Waldorf Astoria, the gathering place for royalty and the ultra-wealthy. For the past 14 years, Cohen has performed Chamber Magic there, in a private Waldorf Towers suite, for sold-out audiences including Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, and the Queen of Morocco. In 2012, Cohen became the first magician in a half-century to sell out Carnegie Hall.

Available in Crimson Red and Ming Blue, the cards are produced in the USA using FSC-certified papers derived from sustainable forests, vegetable-based inks, and starch-based laminates.

Featuring court cards licensed from Fournier in Villareal de Àlava, Spain, the Jacks, Queens, and Kings have skin tone faces - joined by an elegant, debonair Joker and Ace of Spades.

This deck features playing card jargon on almost every surface, and comes in two colors: a warm set with reds, yellows, and oranges, and a cool set with blues, greens, and indigos. The Table Talk Deck features original artwork on the tuck, card back and the Ace of Spades. These decks were printed in the USA at the United States Playing Card Company and printed on premium stock with a quality finish.

This deck features playing card jargon on almost every surface, and comes in two colors: a warm set with reds, yellows, and oranges, and a cool set with blues, greens, and indigos. The Table Talk Deck features original artwork on the tuck, card back and the Ace of Spades. These decks were printed in the USA at the United States Playing Card Company and printed on premium stock with a quality finish.