Hopefully logic will prevail and we'll all realize that getting someone to pay $50 for a deck of cards is the greatest magic trick of all.....the magic of marketing. The magic of actually making you BELIEVE that the cards actually feel better when it is in your hands. Now THAT ladies and gentlemen is real magic.
Again...one of those things that only matter to a very, very select group of people. Bust out them $100 cards to laymen and tell them how much you paid for it and not only will they NOT be impressed....they'll laugh at you.
Jerry's have 2 purposes:
1) To make money for the people who are smart enough to market this...which there is nothing wrong with that at all...it's the basis of our capitalism.
2) For an insecure magician to show off to another insecure magician as a way to say, "See how serious I am?".
The greatest hypnosis of all is to make someone feel better or believe they are better by simplying paying more for an object that has no functional value.
OMG Thank you so much for that post. Finally a voice of reality.
I'm so sick of hearing, "Nuggets are the best feeling cards in the world" or "They feel way better than any other cards" or, "they are the best cards in the world."
They are horrifically coated USPC's standard stock cards that were mass produced for 50cents a box. If they had intrinsic value as the best cards in the universe, (And USPC do produce premium quality cards at a higher price than the norm) they would have been priced accordingly at the time. These were cheap, mass produced cards. I own some Nuggets, and I can confirm, that yes....they are cards. Are they any better or any worse than the mean standard of any deck of cards produced by the USPC? NO! Are they worth 50 bucks? NO! They have collector value, fine, whatever, but don't act like you're not getting ripped off. They aren't even rare enough to justify that kind of pricing as collectibles.
The problem with capitalist thinking is, consumers seem to believe that you 'get what you pay for' and thus convince themselves that spending 50 bucks on a deck of cards, or more for that matter makes them the 'best deck of cards ever'. Sorry, that's not true. I've heard it about white Centurions too. "They are so much better in feel to black Cents." BS guys, I have both, they feel identical, they are exactly the same in stock, except for the color of the back of the cards.
So yeah, if you're going to buy these cards, recognize that you're doing so because they are a collectible, not because they are 'the most amazing cards ever produced that feel way better than any other type of card in the whole universe' because even if that were the case, $50 bucks for pasteboard covered in a semi toxic coating is a big ask.
Though I suspect there are enough 15 year olds with dads credit card and an innate ability to believe hype that will be all over these and continue to perpetuate this myth as they try and make themselves feel good about the stuff they could have bought instead.