club special, diamond back, just found out the finish is cambric. and on the flap it says No.92
The vast majority of Bee decks are Cambric finish, diamond back, #92 Club Specials!
I have a few "everyday" decks for when I go out of the house. The ones I carry the most are a deck of Split Spades Lions blue (the stripper deck version) and the USPC edition of Bicycle Guardians. They're cheap while still having a nice custom look to them, and I keep spares on hand at home most of the time. I usually get the strippers for under $5 and the Guardians I recently reordered for less than $3 a pack.
Other decks I like to pocket would be red and blue Tally Ho Circle Backs, my red and blue Bee "casino sample" decks and Karnival Death Heads. I'd carry the Death Heads all the time were it not for the flimsy box they come in - I'm thinking of swapping them out into a leather deck case. Strange that a plastic deck described as tough as nails has a box that's barely stronger than notebook paper.
When I go to work or perform at the hospital, I have a cheap camcorder case that looks sturdier than it is. The padded interior can hold a maximum of about 3 bricks of cards. I might use some of the space to hold Pure Smoke in a half-brick box. It has zippered compartments, into which I put spare Pure Smoke cartridges, batteries, WOW sleeves (one gimmicked, one plain) and a dessicant pack.
When I travel, I've been known to carry over a hundred decks in a locked briefcase, or twice that in two briefcases. Made for an interesting time at the TSA checkpoint in Fort Lauderdale last year! That's when I was still obsessed about carrying my entire collection. As the collection has grown, this has become a very unrealistic plan of action; now I would take one briefcase packed with some good magic and maybe eighty or ninety decks I was going to be away for a week or more. Much of what I'd carry would be trick decks, gaff cards, etc., and there's maybe 20 or so "regular" decks that I'd take to go with them.
I stop using a deck when the cards are worn, filthy, creased, torn, etc. At least, I stop using them as regular cards - when that happens, they become fodder for torn-card tricks and the like! Either that or I hand them down to my fiancee's son - my future step-son.
