78 cards at 2.375" x 3.75", packed in a hinged tin measuring 2.625" x 4.125", with an instruction booklet tucked inside. The whole thing is about the size of a deck of playing cards and lives comfortably in a coat pocket, a glovebox, or a bag.
What you get
The full 78 — 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor with the complete court in each of the four suits — plus the booklet, which covers how to read the cards and gives interpretations. The tin is the packaging and also the storage; it closes properly and holds up to being carried around, which is more than can be said for most tuck boxes. No cloth or bag included.
About the cards
Flat vector cartoon art: bold uniform black outline, solid unshaded color fills, no modeling or texture anywhere. The bears are drawn in the classic gummy silhouette — two arms out, two stubby legs, dot eyes and a small nose — and everything else in the frame is rendered in the same deliberately simple hand. The look is closer to a children's picture book than to occult illustration, and it's consistent across all 78.
Card faces carry the title in a banner at the bottom edge, Majors numbered in Roman numerals. Backs print a four-by-four grid of red, blue, green, and white bears on a yellow field. That grid does not read the same inverted, so reversals are detectable from the back.
Bittrich is German by descent and grew up in Canada, and he presents the whole enterprise deadpan, styling himself the Gummy Bear Oracle and claiming a straight face about wild gummy bears still surviving in the backcountry. The humor is dry rather than cutesy.
Provenance & tradition
Rider-Waite-Smith structure, kept faithfully. Twenty-two Majors in the standard sequence, four suits of fourteen, and Minor Arcana that reproduce Pamela Colman Smith's scene compositions with bears in the human roles. The Ten of Swords is still a figure face-down under ten swords. The Six of Cups is still the exchange between two figures. This matters more than it might sound: it means the deck teaches. A beginner can lay this next to any standard tarot book and the book will describe what's on the card.
That combination — accurate RWS structure inside a joke premise — is rarer than the shelf suggests. Most novelty decks reassign suits or invent cards, which makes them unreadable from any reference and effectively decorative. This one is a working deck wearing a costume.
Who this is for
The travel deck. Small enough to carry daily, cheap enough that you won't grieve it if it goes through the wash, and durable in the tin.
Also the deck to hand to someone who is afraid of tarot. The imagery disarms people who find traditional decks ominous, which makes it useful for reading in public, reading for skeptics, reading for family who'd be uneasy around Deviant Moon, and reading with kids and teenagers. Working readers keep one for exactly this reason.
And a good gift. It's funny on the shelf and functional in the hand, which is an unusual combination at this price.
Not the deck for someone who wants gravity in a reading. It will do the work, but it will not stop being funny while it does it.
