One of us one of us, gooble gobble gooble gobble. 

Looks more like the person is marketing the bumper stickers, hats & tote bags than the 2 decks of cards.  Sorry to say but this project is doomed for failure.

Quote from: badpete69 on February 10, 2014, 07:59:24 PM

Just got mine today.  they look pretty cool. Hopefully he will relaunch the next deck in the trilogy

And hopefully change the design. I hated how some cards didn't have a background since they weren't in the area of the map and how the back design was too similar to Propaganda.

+1 agreed 100%.

Picked these up off ebay, from what I can tell they're a '59 vintage.  Z code on the AoS with a 1 tax-stamp.  They're very nice condition, the only issue is that they came from a smoker's home. 

Thanks for the encouragement.  I like that USPCC released a commemorative deck, but it sure has made searching for an original one all the more tedious.  An eBay search used to take only a few secs to check through, now you have to go through 20 different listings to see which one is pictured.   I've been looking for one for years and have seen them only twice.  First one I saw was at a gunshow and to say the dealer was proud of his items is an understatement.  His belief that because half the tuck was missing along with most of the cards automatically meant that it was carried by Hal Moore himself.      It's very possible that particular deck was carried in the field and that's why some of the cards were missing, but what's more likely was that the guy distressed the pack himself and came up with his wild stories to improve the price without any actual providence.  The second time was at a friend of a friend's place and he didn't want to part with them at all as his father gave them to him.  I know I can relate to that, my father served in Vietnam and I have a few things from that time and there's no way on earth I'd give any of them up for any price.  Heck, the first deck of the Desert Shield version I got was a gift from a friend of mine that was stationed in Kuwait during DS and I wouldn't sell that one either because of its providence. 

As you said, the differences between the three versions are slight, though easily sussed out.   Thanks again.

... an uninspired design with "inspirational" quotes in the Aces...

   Don't know why, but that's about how I feel.  Dazed, able to do nothing but munch on a carrot because of the sheer beauty of these cards.  I hope I'll be able to get in on the LTD editions.  I'll be going in hard on these.  I come from an Army family and have a lot of friends that served as well. 

Looks like an awesome deck, I haven't bought anything from D$D in a long time.  This will probably break the streak.

Two Russian decks.  One is about bridge size, the other is slightly larger than poker size.

I also try to buy at least in pairs so I can open one.  I liken it to a car that just sits without being driven; what's the fun in buying a deck that someone puts hours upon hours into the artwork just to stare at the tuckbox, or worse yet, hide the deck away in a storage box, never to see the light of day?  That said, not counting vintage decks since this isn't The Cellar, and going based on resale value I'd say it's pretty even between some of the Fed 52 series decks, Blue Bloods and even the Firehost decks (which also go for a fair amount on ebay at times).  So, around the $50 mark. There are a lot of decks I have that I won't open though because they are IMO too valuable and as such drift into the investment art category. 

I do have 2 of the black unbranded limited edition Fed 52s which are going for crazy numbers, maybe one day I'll take a peek inside but I really doubt it.   

Wow, great Karma.   

My original guess is already taken so I'll go with:

Jack of Clubs

Even though it's not really my cup of tea, for some reason I keep getting drawn back to this, which I guess means that the artist in one form or another succeeded.  The more I think about it and look at the artwork, the more it all grows on me.  The only thing that is really bugging me at this point is the grammar on some of the cards.   

I've also been watching the development of these since the beginning, well, I was more or less lurking in the background, silently saying, "my precious" while drooling over the deck's development.  To say I'm glad the day's finally here and they've been launched is a gross understatement.   I came close the the $1 pledge as I was able to select it but not process it.  Guess Sparkz was hitting F5 faster than I was.     Still was able to get in on the early bird  and got an uncut on the side.  Just hope that the Grail deck is able to get printed as I do like the white more than the black.  But that's not to say the black isn't phenomenal in it's own right. 

Ya know, some of these decks wouldn't be all that bad if they got artists to contribute good work.  I have some friends that are amateur artists, and their work is pretty damn nice so I'd imagine it really can't be that hard to find people that are willing to contribute good imagery for a deck.  But instead, the project managers always seem to get the "artwork" submissions from the bin of the art class at an elementary school.