I could easily agree that E will run some other kind of special between now and the end of the holiday season - and possibly yet another next week or the week after to catch after-Christmas shoppers as well as clear out some merchandise and make room for new goodies. But just looking at the numbers makes me inclined to think that BG1E won't be a special. Based on the numbers given mid-year and since, here's my estimates on their rare giveaway decks:
BG1E: in the ballpark of 700, plus or minus a few dozen.
Gold Arcane: perhaps 2,500, maybe a little less.
Red Artifice: less than 1,700. (3,000 were sold in the first day, the only time one of these baddies was purchasable so far.)
LTD: unknown. Maybe over 4,000, plus or minus a few hundred. Largely depends on how many large-enough orders have been placed so far this season.
My guess - totally a guess - is that they're going to stretch out the supply of BG1E by only using them in the $350 and $475 prize brackets. Let's face it - it draws big purchases. They have other decks to draw the smaller ones, and the LTD will be the new go-to deck for contest prizes but E's been swearing up and down it won't return as a purchase premium. So you'll see the odd "sale" of Red Arts and Gold Arcs as you have in the past two weeks over the course of the coming year, but the BG1E will be reserved for the whales.
It makes sense to me, even though I know everyone here wishes it was the easiest thing in the world to get. Does anyone else have a logical theory (and not a wish fulfillment theory)?