The latest custom Bycycle deck is the Karnival Deck available from the ever-inventive Owen Packard of Big Blind Media.
http://www.bigblindmedia.com/karnival.htm
Oh
my... what a thing of beauty.
These cards are made by the USPCC and are of classic Bicycle quality. They handle a dream... that's enought about the USPCC.
The artwork is by renowned French artist Sam Hayles and they are truely creepy. The back design is NOT you typical negative, blue, green, black or silver version of 'ol fashioned Bikes...no, no, no. These are bespoke (no pun intended) original bits of pasteboard art and lovely they are. The printing gives the cards an aged feel without it being laboured. The artwork is gothic and dark but still looks classy. Karnival is the perfect name, I'm just expecting the Ghost Train from "Something Wicked This Way Comes" to sound it's whistle in the distance.
The tuck case (also original) has a nice bar-code-proximety tool to be used, one of the creepy jokers holds another cards identity should you choose to point it out, if not it won't be noticed. All ofg the cards have a very subtle but easily seen one-way design easily seen in ribbon spreads but in no way obvious to any spectator and finally an everso helpful DB card is included.
Check out the prices as well...about a fiver (GBP) with all sorts of shipping and bulk buy deals.
Treat yourself to a class-A deck and support one of the best magic companies out there!
If we can hit that bullseye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate!