The Beetle Backs / Back Design

Back card design for The Beetle Backs playing cards, Crimson Standard Edition.

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The Beetle Backs, presented by The Gentleman Wake and designed by Widakk Design, is the culmination of a two-year long effort to create a deck of cards perfect for Collectors, Players and Magic Enthusiasts everywhere. Classic and beautiful, evoking turn-of-the-20th-century style and elegance and the finest modern handling and playing card printing techniques, The Beetle Backs also tells the Kafkaesque tale of an embattled entomologist deep in study of his chosen field; the Dynastinae subfamily of scarab beetles. 

The Beetle Backs cards have 6 unique editions:

Crimson Standard Edition, Cobalt Standard Edition, Prestige Edition, Dynastinae Edition, Prism Edition and Legacy Edition