Its cool though that he gets them printed. Are they really USPCC?
If they weren't, they couldn't be Bicycle decks, now could they?
I personally think that with every new design, Merz is getting better. Now don't stone me for saying this. I would rather have 1 Vortex deck than 10 of these. And don't get me wrong. I hate his way of making money and stealing business from those working hard. I just think these are more appealing than the first Trace decks.
I read that statement as "this new heaping pile of crap looks MUCH better than that other one he made before - and it's fresher, too; look at the steam!"
I might, just might, have agreed with you, were it not for his most recent "animal" deck releases. But truly, they're all crap using found clipart and requiring little to no skill or artistry to create.