New Bicycle Crap

Bicycle has decided that it would like to get in on the "reversed card" game after the success of Ellusionist's Black Tiger Decks, so it has put out FIVE new decks of cards on its own!

The five decks are pastel blue, pastel pink, pink, purple, and pink/purple. Although the pastel blue and pastel pink decks are simple reversed decks (think Black Tigers with light blue or light pink instead of black), the pink, purple, and pink/purple decks feature a new back design and a new one-way design for the court cards. They also feature different colors depending on suit, a modification Bicycle has never tried: in the pink and purple decks, the black-suited cards are a darker shade of pink or purple than the red-suited cards and in the pink-purple decks, the black-suited cards are purple and the red-suited cards are pink (making the identification of a card's actual color easy from the side).

Some online magic stores (like the Magic Pro Shop and MagicShop.co.uk) carry the pastel blue and pastel pink reversed deck, but I haven't found ANY online magic store that carries the new pink, purple, or pink-purple decks that feature all the touches of the redesign. So, if you order these babies from eBay, you'll be way ahead of all your magic friends (don't worry - you can thank me later).


If you want to see what all these cards look like, check out these pictures:

Pastel Blue


Pastel Pink


[Click here to see a bunch of photos of the new pink and purple cards.] Pink + Purple Cards



Pink-Purple (check out the court cards and the back design!)

Links on eBay*:
PASTEL BLUE: Link!
PASTEL PINK: Link!
PINK + PURPLE: Link!
PINK-PURPLE: Link!

* Two quick notes:
(1) Although I put some links in this post to eBay sales, these are by no means the only sales of these cards nor are they necessarily the best deals. You should shop around eBay first before bidding on any of these cards. Just search for "bicycle cards" or "bicycle playing cards" and look through all of the results to see which variants are being sold and what the best price is that you can get them for.
(2) Check to see if the decks you're buying come in a box or not. I bought 4 pink-purple decks and they came in cellophane (no box); when I checked the site, I realized that the seller had noted that in the ad copy. So know what you are buying!