Well, I backed it for one deck just to see how the campaign played out. 83% funded. Curiosity gets me sometimes!
Let's just see where this ride goes...

Definitely some odd circumstances surrounding this one...Sometimes I wonder if people post an idea just to see what happens, then pull it once they realize that there is a good chance that they will have to turn their "Just to see what happens" idea into reality!

I'm already a backer for SiShou as well!! :-)

I'm fairly certain that I'm addicted to cards!

Ha! Mine just showed up! UPS

Sine the brick is to commemorate play more cards day, I'm sure that the intent is not to send out special cards that we will keep, but rather for us to be ambassadors for Bicycle and to give the cards away (since they didn't technically cost anything) to encourage others to put down electronic devices and rediscover and play more card games. More people interested in card games=more people interested in cards overall=more business for them, and more unique decks fir collectors/cardists/magicians due to an expanded pool of new buyers! To that note, I think that I will hand mine out at my office.

In a nutshell, changes by the ISP raised prices for concurrent user connections to the point that it was no longer feasible to run as an un-sponsored site without ads. Ths all apparently happened over a very short period of time. The person running the site couldn't/didn't want to (understandably) bear the increased burden alone.

www.unitedcardists.com, a playing card forum similar to this one.

I just wanted to stop in and say hello! Some of you may remember me from the UC forum, although I hadn't been a memeber there for long before it went down. I have lurked on both of these forums for quite a few months. I joined US because I ran across it first, adn didn't want to be on two forums posting the same things twice to many of the same members, so I just opted to stay on there and keep lurking here.

I am a pure card collector. I love to watch flourishing, but seriously doubt that I would even be able to perform the simplest tasks. I love magic, and buy many tricks from E, T11, and Penguin, just to play around with them. I never attempt to perform them for anyone, they are just for my own amusement but even so, I always honor the magician's code and never reveal what I know to anyone. I LOVE knowing how the tricks work, adn enjoy being fooled! I can watch most tricks now and figure out how they are done, but I truly appreciate the skill and imaginitive thinking that goes into creating these tricks and I buy the ones that I especially like to support the artists and companies. I first got into collecting on a serious scale through these magic companies.

Being a pure collector, I never open the decks that I buy (yes, sad, I ageree) unless I ahve a lot of them and they aren't super rare. I but them as art pieces, with no intent on every selling any of them (much to my wife's dismay!). There really aren't a lot of decks that I won't buy at least a couple of.

From the time that I was very young, I remember being fascinated by that weighty card box in my hand. The size, the slight rattle of cards inside, the feeling opening a new deck and fanning through the cards, Just something about it speaks to me. I don't know how, adn I don't know why, but I'm sure that some of you know those feelings. I still go through my collection weekly, scrutinizing each and every deck, wondering about the artwork inside. Maybe it's nostalgia, but something about having the decks just does something for me psychologically. It's so cliche, but it is a magical experience. Yeah, weird...I know. :-)

I look forward to being able to give back to the board and the members as they have given me tips and information over the months.

Have a great day!

BiggerDee

Very nice, I will be in on these!

I swear, I just need a big bucket of money out in front of my house. Card designers and companies can just come by, drop a few decks in, and take some cash. That will make it much easier than having to order! :-)

I find this deck very interesting. I received the pre-release notification about it a few days back, and I have been wondering about the details of the back story and what the deck looked like. I know that Aloys stated that only 850 decks would be in "store stock", but I'd love to know a total production/distribution number. The "x" number of decks will be "released" and availability for a "limited time only" statements tend to make me lose a bit of enthusiasm for a release such as this. I don't buy as an investment to re-sell, but I do love the challenge and reward of obtaining truly rare decks. Vague production quantity numbers leave so many doors open. Obviously this will be popular in China and surrounding areas, I just wonder about the interest of the standard collector.

From what I understand, yes, you are correct, but technically with the collector's item being the storage box for the two decks!

The question will boil down to this...will it be two decks and the box for $50, or $75 ( or more)? What will be ya value of that little box, albeit cool and a really nice design, to casual or serious collectors? I'm sure that it will be a polarizing subject!

I don't know if there will be gilded decks, or just standard ones, as part of the deal. I got the impression that was all still being worked out, but there has apparently been a great deal of interest in the set as a whole.