Official trailer (and yes, you can actually see the cards )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4HejliUyRY

That is a sweet a$$ trailer if I ever saw one!

Jackson's Sherlock Campaign.

I have backed nearly 40 projects and that one was one of the most fun, and most exciting ones to be a part of. Secret teirs, and a lot of drama that came with them, google chat sessions with Jackson, a metric digital ton of comments and discussion on the project page, great assisting staff, tons of awesome updates and add ons. It was a stellar campeign the whole way through and had me checking back daily to check for opened up teirs and new comments.

Just to clarify, are we voting on the best deck that happened to be crowdfunded, or the best crowdfunding exercise that happened to be for a deck?

Heretic Playing Cards by Requiem Team

I personally dislike the "theme" of this deck, but the brick box is by far the most beautiful I've ever seen!

Seconded, if it hasn't been already!

To be clear - I'm not complaining about the pricing or even the differential - I'm not one of those whiners - I conpletely respect the perogative of the owners to sell at a price of their choice and the power of the free market to determine if that price is "fair" and/or the success of the sale.

I'm just curious if there are any differences between the two decks other than color, that's all. The price difference indicated to me that there could be a difference, but it turns out I was wrong - oddly, the "superior" deck (ie metallic inked greens) were cheaper than the "inferior" deck (supposedly identical but for color and the lack of metallic ink). I'm not objecting to or complaining about it - Just curious!

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The blacks look good, word is that the stock isn''t as good though. I am gonna buy a brick and find out.

Oddly, The BLACK will cost slightly more then the green did. 2 decks for $16 & brick (12) for $80. I won't complain.  Blaine has always been fair to us!

Could be because of the stock. Saw DB's comment in Instagram that this is Bee stock.

I'm inclined to agree - the green ones didn't use "casino stock"; they're much softer than Bees.

So the above turned out not to be the case then?

Interesting... So stock, finish, etc is identical?

The fact that the blacks were a fair bit more expensive than the greens in spite of the lack of metallic inks is merely a function of the market/David Blaine's perception of the market? Or am I missing something here?

Boobs instead of guns, I think that's something most woman can agree on.

And I'm guessing many (if not most) guys can agree that both boobs and guns would be better than either one alone! =P

I thought the same thing.  The gold looks better than the silver ones which makes the decision easier to wait and open a gold and save all silvers ones.

I haven't seen either the silver or the gold decks in real life, but in pictures, I think I favor the silver - it's more subtle but still cool looking! I find the gold a bit too "in your face" relative to the silver... That being said, I'll still be picking up some of the gold decks as they're still pretty cool in my book! =)

Sure, they could do the math and figure it out, but in the spirit of openness and honesty it would be a nice gesture and it shows you're treating your customers better than the average project creator.

The way it's currently shown is neither opaque/closed nor dishonest. It may be a bit difficult for people who can't do simple math or use a basic calculator, but the implication that it is dishonest seems somewhat unfair...

The plain-Jane version presented here is just fine - if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

If everyone subscribed to this logic, we would not have the wonderful variety of custom designed playing cards that we have today... After all, good old Bikes aren't exactly broken... So much hatorade...=P

Yeah, definitely don't even consider using this deck for a poker game (or any game with money involved) - you might not walk away from that game...=P

This is making me think of the classic video game, Frogger.

It does remind me of frogger! It also sorta makes me feel a bit dizzy when I look at it...

a) I like the look of this deck, even if it is rather derivative/too similar to those that have come before it

b) I'm not pledging for it because I don't like skulls (and yes, there have been far too many decks with skulls in them of late), so a deck has to be spectacular for me to be interested if it features skulls as more than a tiny background element

c) I know Don is the head honcho around here, and I readily acknowledge that he knows more about cards and card design than I'll ever learn - mad props to him for that. However, I must say that having hung around these forums for a while now, I do feel that he is very quick to judge, and unnecessarily rude and sarcastic when he doesn't like or agree with something. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, and I do acknowledge that he runs this place, but it's just not necessary to be as rude and offensive and sarcastic as he sometimes (often) is, nor is it necessary for him to put people down so often just because their opinions don't match his/their ideas don't fit his fancy. It's especially sad to me because he often uses his superior knowledge and/or status in the community as leverage in his put downs. This, from my perspective, is the cyber equivalent of a guy in real life who is bigger and stronger than another kid beating him up and/or mercilessly making fun of him because the other kid is smaller/weaker than him and can't do much about it, especially because the big kid has lots of friends/supporters everywhere.

Point c above is a bit of a rant, and I hope I won't be penalized too severely for expressing my opinion, though I fear I may be. It's been bugging me for a while how Don treats people/projects/whatever which he doesn't like, and I guess this is where I throw in my two cents... Please don't ban me/exile me/declare me persona non grata here...=P

I actually really like how the greens feel!

So hey, I have a (dumb) question: How many different versions of gatorbacks are there? I know of the green and black... Any others? Red, for example?