The Honeybee Deck was the first-ever custom deck created by Penguin Magic in 2015. Designed by Randy Butterfield, the original Yellow deck sold out in a mere two days! A few months later we debuted the Black edition deck, which also sold out quickly.

Original Sold-Out Honeybees

Now we are happy to announce Honeybee V2 via this Kickstarter campaign. If you read no further, here is what you need to know: The V2 design is very similar to the original Honeybees, but the card backs are now BORDERED instead of borderless. We are making the V2 Honeybees available in both Yellow and Black during this campaign so that you can choose one, the other, or both.

New Honeybee V2 Backs (Render)

Each of the V2 standard decks has a custom honeycomb back design. Instead of a diamond Bee pattern, the deck features a beautiful honeycomb complete with 2 realistic honeybees walking on the back. You can almost taste the honey as you gaze at the backs!

Honeybee V2 Bordered Yellow & Black (Render)

V2 Ace of Spades and Jokers (Render)

We also have custom Beekeeper Jokers, a custom Beehive Ace of Spades, deep high-roller red on the Heart/Diamond suits, and custom colors and textures applied to the court cards.

Court Cards with Custom Color & Texture (Render)

Along with the Honeybee decks, we are offering a beautiful t-shirt (Small through 3XL) and custom coin! These items are available as individual pledge tiers, as well as add-ons. To add on a shirt to your deck pledge, add $20 in the US and $27 international. To add on a coin, add $18 in the US and $20 international.

Honeycomb T-Shirt (Render). Add-on $20 US or $27 Int'l

Honeybee Coin (Render) Add-on $18 US or $20 Int'l

We have several amazing stretch goals planned. Once we hit our core goal, we will be printing the V2 Honeybees in Black and Yellow. At $15,000 we will be adding custom seals to each deck. At $20,000 we will unlock the METALLUXE version of the Honeybees. This amazing deck has its own unique design and will be printed with Gold Foil on the cards themselves using USPCC's fantastic Metalluxe process. The tuck box will be incredible, utilizing black paper adorned with multiple colors of foil. Only 1,000 Metalluxe decks will be created, and they will not be available as add-on items.

Metalluxe Version - Stretch Goal (Render)

We will be giving backers the opportunity to vote on the included gaff cards once we hit our stretch goal of $25,000.

We will be printing the Honeybees with the United States Playing Card Company. The Honeybees have always handled like a DREAM and the V2 are no exception. They will be printed on embossed Casino-Grade Bee stock with Grade-A "Magic" finish for ultimate fanning, spreading, durability, and longevity. They will also be traditionally cut (the blade goes through the face side) which makes table faro shuffles and other gambling moves significantly easier to accomplish.

We know that many of you will want to add-on some decks in addition to your base pledge, and we have tried to make that as easy as possible. Simply refer to the add-on chart and add the combined amount of your desired add-ons to the dollar amount of your base pledge. You will be able to specify your desired add-ons during the BackerKit process after the campaign has ended.

Thank you so much for your support, we can't wait to deliver these beautiful decks!