Grateful Dead Liquid Blue

Skeletal royalty reigns supreme in this second vintage deck dedicated to the Grateful Dead (see here for the first). Designed by Ian Bohorquez and Paul Roidoulis, the cards have a 1990s black light stoner aesthetic. Nonstandard suits are in use: spades are moons, hearts are roses, clubs are wheels, and diamonds are suns. Having to get used to an unfamiliar set of suits and colors makes this more of a novelty deck than one for playing.

There’s a stained glass flavor to the courts, which maintain international pattern aspects such as the Suicide King and One-Eyed Jacks. Cavorting skeletons in motley make up the jokers while the back is an abstract spacey design. The deck originally came in a velvet drawstring pouch with the card back design on it.