Hey guys,
First off I just wanted to say that Alex, your gif is HILARIOUS. The cheek in the expression made my day lol.
Anyhow I'm glad you guys are pumped. I am too. In case you guys were wondering this deck was NEVER supposed to have metallic inks. It was a last minute decision to add them in when I began creating the custom court cards. I understand that the "cool thing" now is to have shiny inks and ridiculous tuck cases. Those things are something I enjoy as well, but use them sparingly. A slight hint of gold tints the back and the suits. The only place where the gold really flaunts itself is on the court cards. Even though we are outsourcing and paying another production plant to produce our tuck cases, discretion is used even on the boxes to remain quite minimal with tasteful uses of gold and embossing.
I do apologize for anyone that was expecting fireworks in a bottle, but this deck had to be perfect - and to me gaudiness was not perfect. Maybe that's just the architect in me. MORE WHITE! If you guys want more gold, I hear there's a deck called the Monarch? Just kidding.
Anyhow it does seem to bring me to my next point. It seems that people are assuming that those are uncut prints of the actual cards. They are
actually uncut proofs. Normally proofs are cut before sent. Since it requires two different factories to create our decks, the USPCC sent an uncut sheet because they had no box to put it in. I guess this makes it super rare huh?
We do ideally look forward to starting production by week's end. More waiting? Yeah I feel ya. But quality takes time. For the record if it does make you feel any better apparently the USPCC said that in their entire existence of business, this deck has literally taken more hours than any other deck has ever taken to produce and is also their most detailed deck to date. In fact they were beginning to get a little "irritated" with me at how "perfect" I needed things to be. True story. So please be patient. You guys have been there since the beginning. Hang on just a little bit longer to stay with us 'til the end.
-Chin
