I'm a big fan of MERCS and MERCS Recon. Thank you for helping make those games the wallet bruisers they turned into for me. Also nice job on the Conflict dice.

I'm glad you are happy with where things sit. While I disagree with certain choices on the deck, I have many issues with your campaign that make it impossible for me to back you on this venture. Even so I wish you success. Best of luck with your campaign.

If you are curious about facts of USPC quality. Why not go right to the source and ask USPC? They have all the information looking for.

Your revised card back has a lot of interest to the eye. The center element has a nice draw to it, I see the compass initially due to the yellow. Nice and bright. When I look across the rest of the card back it's an pleasant eye feel. Looking back toward the compass there is a little, oddity. It has to do with the negative space within the compass, the tones and dead space there. As you refine your design, maybe consider touching that area up just a bit. Over all I think your redesign is nice and you're headed in the right direction with it for sure.

I prefer the one with the proper indices, Option . I would recommend bumping up or down the color of your font and pips or something else to add some clear contrast against that faux staining on the cards background. Easy visibility is one of the hallmarks of a usable deck. Doesn't mean you need to change your style or anything like that, but altering color or something, to disturb the current low contrast of the two wouldn't be a bad idea. It's easy to think that's red this is brown, good enough. Which in some cases it is, but no, not really. Vision problems of all kinds would have trouble as is, color blindness being one of them. Going off the shape there was easier with the shield as the suit indicator. Thought I would bring it to your attention. Definitely going in the right direction including standard shape pips without losing any of the flare since your other pips are still in there. It doesn't look bad at all.

Something interesting, your card back went from the field being monocolor to colorful while your center element went from colorful to monocolor. I'm curious where you'll take it from here. My eye doesn't notice the compass initially, I look straight at the red spots on the field first. You've effected a change in how we'll initially see your back design. Maybe something to keep in mind as you move forward. There is still a void happening, being a WIP of course so I can't comment further at the moment.

More access with lower price per deck and people complain? 

Thought I would chime in here, I should probably keep my mouth shut though haha. If we've said it once, we've said it a hundred times. There is no such thing as a rare modern playing card. Chase decks aren't limited or rare or special in any other way than being, Chase decks. They're for FUN. It's a great time getting a chase deck in your hands for the first time. If a company decides after years of slow rolling said chase deck to lift the gates for a moment and give access to them, well that's a beautiful thing. Instead of one or two of that chase deck, you can have more with ease! If you already have the chase deck, well you had the pleasure of the chase and the reward, now you get the pleasure of more on the cheap. If it's someone who hasn't had access to the chase deck for whatever reason, they can get in on that and enjoy the deck as well. The company gets to unload a portion of it's years old deck stock, making room for some other things. Those other things will be coming around the corner and maybe it will be a new chase deck. Something for more fun as they attempt to mix it up a bit.

Personally, I'm not one for getting bent out of shape over a chase deck. No matter the chase deck and I do have a lot of them myself. I get more bent out of shape when a deck costs $10 instead of $6, if I buy a brick I'm not getting a deal I used to get. Rather I'm paying what they should be sold for to begin with. (Talking to the big bois out there who  usually put out the chase decks.) Griping about that is pointless though, kickstarter shifted things. Accepted it and moved on.

Collecting playing cards is going to forever be a Luxury Hobby. I think it's a great hobby and I have a fondness for some decks that outweighs my fondness for my cat. It's still a Luxury Hobby. Kind of have to accept that aspect of collecting playing cards, especially when it comes to chase decks.

PS. This week, some repairmen stopped by to look at my furnace.  They saw my card display and were totally blown away!  We ended up talking about card collecting for almost 45 minutes... long enough that they were late for their next service call! 

Those look fantastic. I like how you've set them up higher than the floor, quite nice. Great Godzilla box set btw.

Haha, I know how that goes. I always find it interesting how playing cards are instantly relatable and that people have so many stories they want to share as they're asking questions about decks.

Gorgeous photo Anthony, wow.

My Golden Gatorbacks arrived last night. I haven't spent any time with them at all, aside from four minutes with a tuckbox. I'll get to them later this week, I hope. I think these will be my second favorite Gatorbacks though, I love the Green Gatorbacks just the perfect color for the deck in my opinion. These tucks are great though. Fence sitting folks out there, if these are still available, grab some up! I really don't think you'll be sorry you did.

I like the story book theme with the tuckbox, have always found those to be charming in their way. The front of the tuck in this case is a little plain I think, could use some more window dressing or less for more drama. For me it's in the middle at the moment. This deck wouldn't be to my taste because it hits on several key things that tend to make me shy away. First the faux aging background noise on the card faces isn't something that has ever really be a draw for me. Second and much bigger are the Pips, these aren't traditional and don't follow the shape lines of traditional very well. This makes the deck harder to use than I would like it to be. If there was a way that the interesting icons you've chosen could be worked into more traditional pip shapes I think the deck would benefit overall.

I don't understand the Joker image, is the man sneaking up to smack the bear or is he friends with the bear and going to put it down? I like bears, so I don't like the cranky chap with the axe much for wanting to smack the bear. The aces are banners with full bleed art on the bottom of the card face, this is generally a no no in the playing card world because of the cheatability of full bleed card faces as they become warn and used.

For me the card back is going in different directions. You have the novel border which I do like, a map with faction markers, interesting and engaging. Then you have a black frame around a much less detailed center element of a world. I'm sure there is a story being told there, but why not show us something more detailed they're fighting for rather than this world which isn't as engaging as the map frame around it? Drawing our eye to the center I would think then that prime real estate be used to it's greatest advantage. I don't feel that's the case here.

It looks like you have developed interesting factions. I hope you explain them on the campaign page because I, like 99.99999% of everyone else, am lazy and won't likely seek out further information from alternate sites about the factions there in. I need it all laid out before me in a clear and easy to understand way. Speaking of which, are the spades factions undead people or just blue people? It's unclear the JoS appears to be a Ghoul while the QoS doesn't look like a Ghoul. Whatever they are I think the Clubs fellas started the conflict due to finger envy, they're rising up against the five finger men.

Hello Stan, this is more a card game than a deck of playing cards. Looks like a great idea for a card game though. I'll scoot it on over to the game discussion area.

Has anyone found some locally outside of their local magic store?  Even if you don't live near me, I'm just curious to know.  Maybe there's places I'm overlooking.

I'm in the Western US. Outside of a Magic store, only twice and both times were at antique shops in very small towns that sold all kinds of various items. They had a few choices of playing cards to cater to their poker playing crowd. From what I gathered at both stores they were similar situations. Small groups would go in and ham it up, kind of like a once a week hang out sort of thing they had the decks for those fellas. Each shop had a few Bees and Tally Ho near the knives/firearms/WW2 areas.

I've also found 1 deck of STUD at a candy shop on route 66 once. No idea how or for who. The young lady running the register had nothing to offer in terms of information about the STUD other than to charge me $2.99 for it. She was a font of information when it came to salted licorice, jelly beans and most importantly knew where they stashed the Sen-Sen. Curiously enough, the antique shops who had some small measure of gambling related items (Novelty roulette wheels and that kind of thing) didn't have any playing cards at all. I have come across some bridge sized playing cards in Mom & Pop owned crafting stores too but no Tally-Ho.

I love Tally-Ho circle backs, they're my most used deck by a mile. I know how you feel about never being able to just walk into a store and pick some up.

wow a super nice deck! will definitely on board when it's time!

It's time now, these are selling and shipping as we speak.

Hello Akicer and welcome to the forum! Over 200 decks is a very nice collection by my estimation. Looking forward to seeing what you have to say as you join the conversation. If you have any questions at all, be sure to ask, we're a friendly bunch here.