Thanks Don - the artist is working on the latest rendition with all value / pips uniform. He started yesterday - hope to see the updates early next week.

Getting closer to something that I like a lot more than when I started. Thanks for all the comments / advise. All was taken into consideration and we are shooting our prints tomorrow and will have a big update right after.

Hello all - the team has been heads down working hard on the updates to the cards. I hope to have a finalized direction soon as I don't want people to get more confused about this project than they already are! Trying to make the cards as clean as possible while showing off the artwork... pretty much decluttering right now.

Hello everyone and thanks for taking the time to read this. I'm super stoked to be part of this community as I think there are a lot of great attributes to it. I'm new to this side of the card world... I used to just think cards were cool looking or played well - I had no idea that there was a ton more to them than that! So many great stories.

I come from the sneaker world. I created the largest sneaker magazine in the world 11 years ago. I sold it last year but it is still being printed in the US and in China. My focus now is more in China than anywhere else as the opportunities are vast. I created the magazine from scratch... kind of like the first deck of cards I created. I didn't know anything about creating a magazine - no idea on who was a good printer / programs / photography.... But I knew it wasn't rocket science. I bought a magazine that I thought was comparable to the industry I was in. There was a great Japanese magazine and from the US I used Watch magazine. I took these into the printers and said this is the quality I wanted. Of course the first issue we made a ton of mistakes - but we learned from them and the next issue was the real deal. I assume the cards I'm working on will get better over time as well.

As for cards. I have around 100 decks. Some have been in my family for many years as we have ALWAYS played cards. From poker to rummy to euchre to kings in the corner - if there are two or more people at the table - deal them out! I'd like to take some of the things that I've learned from Jordan Brand and Nike and apply them to the card world. What does that mean? Well... with your help we are going to find out!!

Anyway - I just wanted to say hello to everyone and I look forward to learning form the masters._steve

Shebhnt -  I very much appreciate your constructive criticism. It is funny - I bought a number of decks from KS and most aren't playable for me (usually the numbers / letters are too small or they blend into the background too much). I'm going to have my artist work on this right now to see if we can update these some before they go to press. We have four weeks - which sounds like a lot but I'm sure it will be here before I know it._steve

Hello all - ! This is Steve - I'm part of a small team that put these cards together. First off - thanks for the feedback. I feel all of the comments from "is it appropriate" to "needs tweaks".

I want to give you just a little background as you guys don't know me from jack. I started a forum in 1999 called ISS Forums which turned into Solecollector.com. When I started the forum I had 700 members (within 3 months) which I thought was great. I sold Sole Collector last year and when I sold it we had 400,000+ members and 5 million uniques per month. The site is dedicated to sneakers - we interview people like MJ / Kobe / LeBron as well as designers from the big brands (and small ones). What I have learned over the past 11 years of working with the collecting community - RESPECT! Forums are such a great place to be educated as well as to give information / feedback. I wanted to buy a new watch a few years ago - first thing I did was go to the best watch forum and started asking questions. I truly respect the people who take the time to educate the "newbies" as well as provide information about the latest and greatest cards.

So - I'm a newbie in the sense that this is my first deck of cards that I'm creating. Now I have a nice start to a collection of cards... I have more sneakers than card but I have a feeling that is going to be reversed before you know it. As for the hurricane cards... well - I hate hurricanes. I have a house in Key Largo that is made out of concrete and really don't have to worry too much... just put the hurricane shutters up. But I have a boat (sailing catamaran) and man - it super sucks - have to tie it down - take the sails off - and of course 90% of the time the storm misses us so it was all for nothing. But if you don't do it - you'll get hit square in the nuts.....

Hurricanes are serious things and I hope that the cards reflect this. I don't take the death and distraction lightly. I wanted to pay tribute to the hurricanes but also wanted to educate people with this deck. On top of that - there is a very special card in the deck, the Queen of Diamonds. This card is dedicated to my friend who owns Category Three Bar... his wife of 30 years passed away of breast cancer. I told him that we were going to do a deck of cards based on hurricanes and I told him I wanted to interview him about why he chose Cat 3 for the name of his restaurant. He didn't know that I had made a card dedicated to his wife and in the video you can see his reaction when he first saw it. Pretty much brought us all to tears when he said "yep, that is her... that was when she was going through her hurricane." Chokes me up even typing that...

On a much lighter note. This is my first deck of cards and I have a great team around me that helped create these cards as well as a small team to ship them out. We have our second deck in the works right now and I'm going to take what I've learned here and apply it to the next project. I will tell you this - the next deck is 100% ridiculous..... I truly believe even the hardcore collectors will be stoked....!

As for this deck needing tweaks. It is tough - we worked so hard on these cards and we had to stop and hit the print button at some point in time. The cards aren't done - they are still being tweaked.... and I firmly believe what will be created will be top shelf!

Any ideas / comments / please let me know. I have thick skin....!_steve