Hey guys!
I can assure you, the faces will be well worth it. There's reasoning behind us doing the solid backs, and Evan has pretty much nailed most of it.
Any comment on how your deck's back is identical to HOPC's NOC deck? NOC comes out Tuesday.
It's an unfortunate coincidence, but I can assure you that we both came up with the idea independently. We received quite a few designs for the Mystery Deck back. After seeing the designs, they really just didn't deliver what we want the deck to say. They had no message. They were just designs that would be forgotten.
We then decided that the focal point should not be on the backs of the cards. The spectators don't care. What the spectators care about is the fronts, so we decided to take away any distractions from the amazing front artwork (which is DEFINITELY unique in our case) and create a blank back. What could be more mysterious? Cheesy skulls and ghosts? No.
So around a month ago or so we decided it was settled. We were going to be bold and be the first company to do a solid colored back. At this time the HOPC had posted the pictures teasing the colors of their backs, although no one knew at the time what they meant.
You can imagine my surprise and disappointment yesterday when I discovered the intentions, and that's when we decided to reveal our backs to cover any bases in the future of people saying we copied them.
While we may not be the first to do a solid deck now, hopefully we will be the first to do the solid black. Even if not, I feel our faces are extremely unique, extremely creative, and definitely scream "Mystery".
Let me know if you have any questions and I would be happy to answer them. We're thinking of doing something pretty cool in the next week or two to really get people geared up for the deck and give them all of the information they could ever want or need.
