These are interesting cards, but I am curious.  What is it that pushed the price so high?  I see nothing special above the usual $9-11 cards offered.

Thanks

Curiouser and curiouser.

Didn't think they were Aussie.

Very impressive efforts!  I am sorry you are out of my price range, but good luck.  Looks like you will sell out soon.

It looks like I won't be able to actually see what I am buying before I commit so, regardless of past work, that kills the deal for me.  I don't need to spend money on something that everyone else likes when I may not.

No Sale

Clearly others will buy these decks based on reputation, well deserved I might add.  But is there some reason he only chose to show 3 cards from both decks?  I kind of like to see what I am buying.

You are right, of course.  But I hold my cards close up.  Getting old, you know.  And the feel is also a big part.  I also collect Tarot cards for the art.  I never use them.  There size is less of an issue unless the art will be lost.  And I have passed on decks for just that reason.  Oddly, I have seen some Tarot images smaller than the versions on a poker deck.

Go figure.

And if this deck was the usual KS project at $10 delivered, I would go for it just for the Queens.

Some principles are worth standing up for.

I am hardly that experienced with collecting cards nor with Kickstarter.  Many others here have years more than I.  However I can share with you my own experience. 

I took a look at the last 9 projects I chose to back and 3 are $9, 2 are at $10, 3 are $11-12, and only one is $15.  That project was with an experienced starter and it had a totally tricked out lenticular tuck box.  For me to go above $12, I need a lot of confidence and a very interesting deck from a top quality printer.  If your deck were $9-10 I would jump on it but at $15 I really come to a dead stop.  Even the Prism: Night Playing Cards came in at $11-13 and had a lot of tricks and effects that really made me stop and look, including a full range of color effects.  While I am immediately attracted to your art and card back, there is just nothing there that pushes it out of the $9-10 deck range.

To put it simply, it is not the $5 more than I think the deck is worth.  I can afford $5.  Most collectors can.  It is just that at $15 my brain says I don't want it.  At $10, I cannot live without it.

Thanks HankMan.  I missed MPC.  How is their quality?

I get that.  It just strikes me as a remarkably low cost for a project.

Hopefully we will hear about others in the series before they sell out as well.

See here: http://www.collectableplayingcards.com/magicians-anonymous-playing-cards-playing-cards-p-47954.html