Grateful Dead Liquid Blue
A funky deck celebrating the Dead.
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.
Grateful Dead Liquid Blue playing cards designed by Ian Bohorquez and Paul Roidoulis, USA, 1992. This is the second of 3 Grateful Dead decks.
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By Lev Golinkin
United States • Member since May 26, 2026
I'm a US-based author and journalist. I've been collecting playing cards since I was about 8 years old, when I got mesmerized by the various decks that were used in Soviet Ukraine, where I'm from. I collect mainly European decks such as those by Dondorf, Grimaud, and Piatnik. I love courts above all else, and am drawn toward historical and artistic decks.
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