Yes...Here is some advice I give every kickstarter and none listen but I'll say it again anyways. Get off your lazy butt and at least try to call a card printer besides USPCC. The Magic Castle produced a nice card through Carta Mundi, maybe you can too? You will never know until you ask. Here is what I do know though....USPCC will NOT open up the door to their web press for you. They might tantilize you with options like "The Magic Finish," or an "Aristocrat Stock," but neither of those seem to work as well when they are not given the treatment an pampering of the Web Press. Thus you wind up with a card that isn't any better than a Bike, or Bee, or even Maverick, that you can buy for $2.00-3.00 at a big box store.
The way the small run market is, you then need to turn around and sell your cards for prices ranging between $7.00 and sometimes even $15.00! Do the math....I don't want to pay an extra $5.00 - 13.00 for your vainglorious art project. Unless you are a friggen Picasso you had better offer me something more for the price!
So if you are determined to jump on the latest magic fad(producing your own deck of cards) do us a favor and try to offer us something a little more. Try to sweet talk USPCC into using their top line press and if that doesn't work call another printer. They are competitors after all! Let the free market do what it is supposed to. And maybe, just maybe, a little competition in this kickstarter craze will force USPCC to start setting pricing that will make the end product either cheaper, or of higher quality. Some of us actually DO care as much about the quality of the card as the look and we are kind of sick of kickstarters trying to sweet talk us into believing that their trashy deck is worth $15.00!
