Perhaps it's just me, but I'm failing to see how version 2 is any different than version 1, let alone better. Two different typefaces for the indices, only some pips are custom, and he's dropped clip art on existing courts. Court cards have a vaguely "wanted poster" effect around the court characters, while the spot cards are clean and devoid of this effect. Wait, that's not aging, it's barbed wire...
If I grabbed any three random decks from my collection, threw them at a wall then picked up enough cards to make a full deck, it would still look better than this. It really looks like he was trying to create two or three different decks at once, but dropped the plans on the floor, mixed them up and this was the end result.
He's got some interesting ideas, but they're mashed together and not well-executed. I'd offer him my services to help with the design, but I doubt he'd listen to a word I had to say, based on his old Facebook days.
