 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Honey Bee Deck from Penguin Magic. What is this? Basically, it's Penguin Magic's first custom deck release, so it's just pretty awesome. It's great to see Penguin Magic, giant in the magic industry, Magic House, release their own deck of cards and this is a really cool first edition. What this is was designed by Randy Butterfield. He's out with Midnight Cards, if you remember, and this concept, the concept of this was designed by Kevin Riley. Now, so what Kevin's idea was, you know, there's the Bee Back Casino Cards, the Diamondbacks, which is a long-time standard with casino cards. And so Kevin's idea was to take the name Bee and kind of make a Bee-themed deck or a honeycomb pattern deck that's kind of inspired by the traditional Diamondbacks, because the original Bee Deck doesn't really have that many Bee-themed elements aside from the ace of spades and the jokers. And so what this does is kind of takes that concept of Bee Honeycomb, that, you know, that idea, and kind of pushes it forward into a maybe a more modern, more artistic design. All right, so the part of the check case is number 15 and Honeycomb Back says Honey Bee right there in the center. And of course, you have the picture of a bee and it says playing cards right there on the side. One side says Penguin Magic and the other side says Grade A made in the USA. The bottom has some ad copy about P3, Penguin Magic, and then the top has some scroll work and a custom tuck seal. And then just like a standard deck of bees, the back of the tuck case has a frame with a picture of what the back design looks like. That is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards come from the United States Playing Card Company and they are done on their Bee Stock, Casino Grade Stock. Because these cards are done on Bee Stock, that also means that the cards are going to be a little bit thicker than a standard deck of bicycles. They do have a traditional cut, they do have Magic Finish, and if you'd like to learn more about stock, cut, or finish, you can click the link below in the description. The back design is a two-way back design and it is a Honeycomb pattern that is a full bleed, pushes all the way to the edges, just like a Casino Deck should be, just like the Diamondbacks, the original Diamondbacks are. And so that Diamondback element has been replaced with this yellow Honeycomb pattern and you also have a mirrored bee image on the top and the bottom. Now just like in a standard deck of bees, there are some other bee-themed elements. Namely, the Ace of Spades has the bee hive there in the center of the pip. You've got some really nice leaf decoration on the edges and some more at the bottom. So it's number 15 and then right down there at the very bottom, there's some tiny Latin words that say where there's honey, there's bees. Also with this deck, you're going to get two bee-themed jokers. One joker, the text is bolded in and the other, it's just an outline. You're going to get that traditional star in the corners. The picture is a beekeeper and that certainly goes along with the bee-themed deck. Your pips and indices will all be completely standard and easily recognizable for gameplay and magic. One nice element to this deck is that all the color and texture on the court cards has been completely redone and so that makes for a nice addition to this deck. Another great thing about this deck is there are no ad cards. Penguin has included two Gap cards for you, which is really cool. The first of which is a standard back with a cluster of bees on the back. So it's almost like a multiplying bee effect. And then with this card, we have the standard on one side and black on the other. So it becomes like a color changing deck effect. Big shout out and a big thank you to Kevin Rylik for giving us these cards so that we could review them for you. Big shout out to Penguin Magic, love them, want to give them a ton of business. All right, so that's my review of the Honeybee deck being released from Penguin Magic and designed by Randy Butterfield. These cards will probably go pretty fast as this was a limited run of only 2,500 cards. You can purchase these cards at penguinmagic.com. So if you like these cards, I would especially head on down there right now and make sure you grab yourself a big pile of them. As always, we recommend that you like this video just so other people can find it faster. We also recommend that you subscribe to this channel just to stay up to date on the latest in cards and card magic. If you want to follow me on social media, you can do that too. I'm at facebook.com slash magic orthodoxy, twitter.com slash magic orthodoxy and instagram.com slash magic underscore orthodoxy. Thanks. Bye.