I know cards. Citizens are on the new standard stock. I can feel a huge difference as opposed to everyone else
I don't mean to argue, and I'd love to learn more but I don't see how this is possible. Sure, the USPCC is constantly updating and replacing their technology and machines so new cards will be printed differently than old cards.
From what I understand though, there are only a few different options for stock that the USPCC provides with under 10 finishes (I could be mistaken but last I heard there was a casino quality stock and a regular stock).
Contraband and Citizens are both small runs compared to the gigantic runs or Bicycle and Bee. I think that it is unlikely that the USPCC has created an exclusive stock, or way of treating stock, just for Citizens. So unless I am mistaken (which I very well could be), if a run of Contraband and Citizens were printed around the same time the stocks would likely be the same.
All of that doesn't really mean much because, as you stated most people cannot feel the difference anyways. If that is the case then the biggest differences between the two are the designs, the stock used in the boxes and the unique card holders Theory11 has designed for them.
I wonder if Lyle, JB or Andrei could jump in and settle this?