even though they are doing something good with this charity deck, I seriously doubt they printed 30,000 of these. They are probablly sending the procedes of this deck to charity...which means if it costs them $5.00 to produce then they send the extra $5.00 to charity. Actually they could be sending less but thats a different topic all together. In short, they are in business to make money. They aren't gonna make a run of these like the Monarchs.
To quote the web page at T11 selling the cards:
"100% of the proceeds from each deck purchased at theory11 will go directly to charity: water. Join us. Support charity: water."
Not 100% of the PROFIT, but 100% of the PROCEEDS. Meaning they're eating the cost of the deck and giving all the cash they take in for this deck to the charity, period.
Their own staff has no idea about what's happening there. The side of the Steampunk deck on the teaser from a few months ago said Theory11 very blatantly.
@Munro: Lance commissioned his design first, and got some legal hassle from T11 and USPCC. I think that's why he went with the name Actuators over Steampunk, but don't quote me on that.
I thought somewhere in the history pages theory 11 said that the steam punk deck was not theirs even thought there was a pic before this with the words 'theory 11' on the side of the tuck box.
Actually, the page states this:
"A joint creative collaboration between the United States Playing Card Company and theory11. Produced by theory11 and designed by Alex Beltechi in Romania."
Remember months ago, when T11 redesigned bicyclecards.com? A collaboration was announced with T11 working hand in hand with USPC. It was at the same time that the Guardians came out with USPC packaging and became part of the USPC's regular line-up and not just a T11 deck anymore.
I think based on that statement that it's the same thing here. As I see it, the deck's really a USPC deck that T11 worked on with them/for them, and it will also be regular USPC stock, like the Eco Edition, Tragic Royalty, WSOP decks, etc. And just as T11 is simply selling Aristocrats made by USPC and didn't "make" them, they're selling the Bicycle Steampunk deck as another USPC deck, but one that they helped design. This would make the statement that it isn't one of their decks true.
