Thanks for the clarification.

Nobody can give you an estimate when they will sell out. At least nobody without knowing the size of the print run. Seeing that they sit on the shelf for a while now I would say there is no hurry to get them but maybe there're only a few left and they're gone as we speak.
A holofoil Gatorback from DB was already teased so,  if you miss out on them there will be at least one more edition of the Gatorbacks - but who knows when and for how much, lol.

Why are there three threads created for one and the same kickstarter deck? Pretty redundant.

Welcome Laura,

what a nice story. I bet there're some awesome gems in that collection. Feel free to share some pictures and you'll find some great fellows in here that can give you infos on a lot of them.

The link shows "404 not found". Seems like Cardistry Touch took it down.

Most definitely welcome.

For the part with the black and gold, I've read it but wasn't sure what to make of it. Will it be gold metallic ink or my guess is cold foil since, you wanna go with Cartamundi? Or did you just use Cartamundi for prototypes and go with another printer? Does it mean everything what is white in the prototypes will be gold? Some mockups/renders would be good, especially if you wanna run a kickstarter campaign.

Stay safe and stay healthy my friend!

Thanks a lot. You as well.

Looks definitely like the artwork for a successful project. I know some collectors that will definitely be in for a brick of these decks.

First of all, congrats on being funded already. Well deserved seeing the artwork of your portraits cards.

A few thoughts though:

1. the back design should be clearly visible in the campaign. If I didn't overlook something there is no picture of it at all and you can only have a short glimpse of it in the trailer and the picture where it is covered from the tuck box render.
2. While the artwork is superb on itself, I wish it would be playing card art.
What I mean by that is - not taking anything away from the beautiful art itself - but there is something that makes a deck of playing cards exceptional compared to just art printed on tiny pasteboards. Things like a two-way back designs and two-way courts for example. Would be awesome to have this combined with your art skill. Maybe we'll see a V3 of this deck
3. Who prints the cards? Some collectors are interested in print and stock quality and the producing company is as important as the artwork to them. It should be mentioned where the cards are going to be printed.

Just a reminder for the folks that aren't desciple-like following Lotrek (are there collectors like that? lol). Lotrek has a mystery deck for pre-order on his website. It's called Crypt and he plans on never revealing pictures of it, ever. The pre-order started yesterday and is up for 72h. So if you want a deck you have until early Tuesday to order one for the hefty (most certainly justified) price tag of $110. Last chance to ever order it will be on the 10th of April but then it will be priced at $130. After these two pre-order windows eBay will be your best friend.

An interesting project. It is always a pleasure to see different designs from all over the world.
One question that immediately popped up for me was, why is the spade index inverted? Not a good choice imho, since it makes hearts and spades harder to distinguish.

Super thorough response. Thank you very much, Don.

Definitely, that's why I posted here. Seeing that the producer himself posted about his project, I figured maybe he wants to bring some transparency to the situation instead of just doing promotion.