Any status on its printing?
Extremely unlikely. One person backed it for $10, it has about three-and-a-half weeks to go and an $18K goal, and that one lonely backer wants to pull his funding because it's clearly unlikely to reach the goal, but with "flexible funding" you still fork over the cash if the goal isn't met. And that doesn't even take into account that it's on a far less popular funding site than Kickstarter - that flex-funding crap is probably a good reason why. What few projects I looked at, a random sampling, ALL have flex-funding.
I can put up a project that I want to open a diamond mine in Africa "somewhere", set a stupid-high goal, miss the funding mark by a longshot, and anyone foolish enough to back me in the first place forks over their cash so I can buy junk food and playing cards! Some of the projects don't even actually produce something or have any creative value - one couple is raising money to adopt a baby from an expensive private service (probably too picky, want a kid their own skin color instead of one from a public orphanage that's less likely to get adopted) and another was to raise money for a guy who blew his knee out playing basketball, can't work and now needs expensive rehab and help with the bills.
I should start a project: help a starving magician achieve his dream of not starving. Your reward is all the goodwill you generate with your donations. Extra money goes to Asian "masseuse" hookers - just kidding, but you see where I'm going with this.
Poor dude's not getting his $10 back.
Not likely, no... Yay, flexible funding...
Well then. Guess that's a resounding loss for unoriginality. Would have figured they would have gotten a few more bucks, but I guess this was such an obvious ripoff that nobody was impressed.
Thank the gods! Also that flex-funding crap probably makes people skittish.
Yep, not getting an Artifice/Arcane ripoff anytime soon.
It looks like they didn't even try to hide it. It's so blatantly obvious, if I compare the back to the artifice deck I keep close I can actually see exactly which lines were copied, slightly altered, etc... Ridiculous.
Ironically, if he came out with this just a little earlier, say a year or eighteen months (of course without the Artifice ripoff, but there's other art to copy, right?), he might have gotten the project off the ground - or at least come up with more than one backer and $10. We collectors are a fickle bunch and have mostly had our fill of black with Gothic imagery.