Yeah, what would the top card related stories be??
• Artifice and Red Artifice
• Infamous Gold Monarchs
• Smoke & Mirrors v6
• White Lions
• David Blaine Variety box
• LTD. Deck
• Infinity Deck
• The Blue Crown
• Kickstarter (Actuators, Vortex, Apollo, etc.)
• All of the Merz Decks
Apollo wasn't a Kickstarter project. Merz67 deck's are in the section of the newspaper with the funny anecdotes, so they're not really news.
I would add:
The New York Magic Project's biggest release to date, the white Arrcos
The partnership between T11 and USPC - cheap Guardians for everybody!
Pure Smoke - one of the hottest gimmicks of the year, to be sure
the plethora of holiday sales, contests, releases, etc.
The massive end-of-year deck glut - a bubble in the market may be approaching. It's one thing if a dozen artists are making their personal projects, but when the "majors" are releasing decks both new and vintage, mostly rare, practically every week, that can be a problem for the market as a whole.