Don is still alive on this forum! Cheers.
Ok back to the green deck - some other card guys say, a collaboration between D & D and The Apple Magic Store.....
what do you ya think about them apples?
see what I did there?
I'm reasonably sure that the "Expert at the Card Table" deck, versions one and two, were designed by the Buck Twins or at least they had some hand in its creation. Beyond that, I'm just not certain. I'm reasonably sure that CARC sold the decks. While they have sold other's decks before they created Expert PCC, at the time, they mostly sold their own merchandise, meaning decks that Bill Kalush had some hand in and were manufactured under his supervision by USPC. It is indeed possible that this is not the case, but it seems logical. You could just ask Mr. Kalush - he's got a presence on this forum and he's an officer in 52 Plus Joker.
But that other deck was called the Bee Erdnase 216 and that was all Bill Kalush. I even saw the original deck off of which he modeled his new design - he showed it to me one day at the CARC offices.
BTW: I know the Bee Erdnase 216s weren't first, and I'm somewhat sure that even the EATCT deck wasn't first, either. Kalush produced several Bee decks with USPC - the ENTIRE RUN of them were called "Bee Erdnase 1902," with the number coming from the year that EATCT was published, with the exception of the 216s and the Erdnaseum deck, which was created to commemorate a museum created after the author. I suspect that the first Bee Erdnase 1902 deck predates the first-version EATCT deck, but Bill would know for sure.