I'm going to walmart to purchase 5,000 streamline decks! My collection will be..........AWESOME!!!
ROFLMFAO! I actually *like* Streamlines!
Don't you guys just hate it when magic companies make an amazing deck of cards in limited quantities,then sell it for like 6.99?That makes me so mad!Take the White Centurions for example.Theory11 sold them for a ridiculously low price.Now you have to pay at least 100$ for them!Now,if they made a WC v2,that would be a different story.(awesomeness!)I wish that would happen for every really rare deck!
Given the option of having a chance to buy a cool, rare deck at a cheap price and paying exorbitant aftermarket prices, I'll take the cheap price every time. It becomes a lot easier when you stop and recognize this one unavoidable fact of life - YOU WILL NOT OWN EVERY SINGLE RARE AND/OR COOL DECK THAT COMES OUT! There will ALWAYS be a new deck, at least until someone outlaws playing cards - then they'll just go underground and be sold at playing card speak-easies...
It sounds like what you're proposing is that the original manufacturers charge the aftermarket price in the first place. Then only the wealthy would ever own these decks and the hobby would die out, fast - you'd have fewer chances of getting them than you do now, assuming you don't have more money than The Donald. (And if you do, what the hell are you complaining about in the first place?) Even if the White Centurions came out in a version 2 release, the version 1s would still be as rare as they were before and still worth a lot of cash because enough collectors actually try getting all versions as well as all makes and models.
The companies designing and releasing these cards won't remake every single rare deck they sell, and I wouldn't want them to. It's like asking a band to play the same song over and over, or a fashion designer to make the same dress season after season; the market would get tired of it. It takes time and money to make these things, and the companies wouldn't be guaranteed a success, either - unlike major Hollywood studios, some businesses make money by being original instead of creating umpteen remakes and sequels.
On top of all that, right now there's a backlog at USPC for all the new decks people are creating. Can you imagine what that backlog would be like if all the companies big and small started ordering version 2s of every single rare and sold-out deck they've made? Can you imagine how tired of seeing the same cards over and over again collectors would become? The price of getting decks done would likely go up as well - limited supply of printing press time, high demand; it would only make sense. That would further jack up all playing card deck prices and not just the rare ones. Granted, USPC isn't the only game in town, but they are the 800-pound gorilla of the industry and have some of the highest production values in the world available for their custom-deck customers. How would you like to see garden-variety Bicycle Rider Back standards go up to $10 a pack?