Jerry's are ugly. They're popular strictly because of the handling, and the magicians who used them for their handling. Ironically, they were also popular because they were insanely cheap back then...
The Big Gun decks are utterly plain-faced, not even a custom Ace of Spades. So what, they were FREAKIN' CHEAP.
Lushbob: it's not often that closeouts like that happen with collectible decks. Most often, they just sell out, period. Think of it like this - a clothing company makes a bet that a particular design will be terribly popular, and it's made as a limited edition. They sell a few, but it's nowhere near as popular as originally thought. They sit on store shelves, week after week, with few takers, while many of the shops selling them are charging retail or above based solely on the fact that they're limited editions and scarcer than most. In the end, the new fashions are coming out and the old stock has to go; anything that didn't sell out gets closed out at deep discounts. Sure, you could have waited for the price to drop, but what if this turned out to be the next Smoke & Mirrors or something? Even if they were moderately more popular, these would have sold out and there would have been no closeout sale in which to purchase them at discount.
I get the feeling that, unfortunately, USPC won't bother to continue the Victory series based on how this one ended up.
