Quote from: leangyan on August 05, 2018, 06:23:41 AM

Hi Don,

Here is the rarity scale. Created by user named Magikfingerz on UC and I liked it. Hope it gives you bit more context.

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I think we need a new term to describe decks with relatively small, one-time print runs. "Limited" is just too broad in its technical definition (basically "finite"), and its use can thus vary greatly among deck producers and collectors. I've scoured thesaurus for something that might fit, but I haven't come up with anything so far. Perhaps just add some sort of prefix or extra word to the existing "limited" to differentiate them?

Perhaps we could create our own rarity scale, like coin collectors use:


R8 = 1-3 known (estimated), 'Unique or Nearly Unique'
R7 = 4-12 known, 'Extremely Rare'
R6 = 13-30 known, 'Very Rare'
R5 = 31-75 known, 'Rare'
R4 = 76-200 known, 'Very Scarce'
R3 = 201-500 known, 'Scarce'
R2 = 501-1250 known, 'Uncommon'
R1 = over 1251 known, 'Common'

Regards,
Sunish

Anyone who thinks that a deck printed in numbers fewer than 5,000 is not very attuned to the industry as a whole, solely the card collectors' end of it.  By this scale, the Bicycle Rider Back in red would be an R1, but so would the Bicycle Black Ghost First Edition, a very scarce deck that, when you can find it, trades for around $100 these days.  The equally-as-rare Gold Arcane deck would also be an R1 on that scale, as common as Mavericks or Streamlines, when there were only 5,000 Gold Arcanes printed and one sold on eBay about a week ago for $62.  There's nothing about this R-scale that even indicates important factors like how the Bicycle Black Ghost 1st Ed. and Gold Arcane were never actually made available for sale, per se - the producer, Ellusionist, simply gave them away either as premiums to customers buying certain dollar amounts of products or, in the case of the former deck, originally only available as gifts to well-known magicians in the community.  Would YOU pay $62 for Streamlines or $100 for Bicycle Rider Backs, new and mint-in-sealed-box?

Magic_Orthodoxy, my advice is ditch the silly R-scale and just go with actual numbers of decks made, period.  Zero confusion, easy to understand, period.

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