@Moon...If their business model is to produce all of the different designs artists present to them...then we all better buy everything they produce right now because they are going to be out of business. As to Fulton's designs, I'm not discrediting the guy....I love the FCJ's...but we have only seen 1 design from him. We haven't seen anything but bits and pieces of this new deck. If you will notice I said I like the design so far....meaning the whole design could be awesome or not be. Like Good@Sabacc said, There is no point in arguing over the merrits or flaws of a deck none of us have seen. Over all...my post questioned the business side of D&D....I was not questioning their value as artists or art promoters.
I'm not gonna argue about the design for the reasons that have been brought up before.
As for D&D, my point is that with the decks being produced by different artists, it's not accurate to say that "Dan and Dave" release a deck a month. Alternating between artists allows them to keep the same working time on a deck as if they were releasing one every 3 months with a single artist, for example. Yet people keep arguing that a month is too short, while in reality it can take much more than a month to see two decks from the SAME artist.
I'll have to agree that the S&M series went a bit too far. But for everything else, I personally don't see a problem anywhere.
The fact that they make money out of it doesn't make it a bad thing. They're a business. Should we expect anything else?