Do you think they will be released for non black club members? If not, ellusionist may have a new member soon.
Like all new Ellusionist releases, unless specifically stated as a Black Club exclusive, it goes to BC members for twenty-four hours THEN to the world at large. But when something is very limited, there's a chance it'll sell out before those twenty-four hours are over. If the "hundreds" they're talking about are the low hundreds, it could either happen or come close to it.
I'm passing. I have more uncuts than I know what to do with and I haven't purchased a single one! I like them as gifts, but I'm not up for paying for them.
You guys do remember when Jake/Xntrix mentioned that the Red Arcane existed as a prototype but not in the conventional sense? An uncut sheet would fit the bill.
Surely after they first discovered a supposedly misplaced/hidden several hundred uncut sheets in the warehouse they would have gone looking for more treasures.
So, next up would be "Sultan Republic Lost Ark of the Covenant Edition"?
I don't think E would want to release a limited deck anytime soon. Everytime on their facebook page when a new deck is being released half of the comments are along the lines of, "I hope this deck isn't a limited release." It shits me to tears...
Hmm... I've never heard of anyone or anything being "shat to tears"... I'm not even clear on what that means!
But it is only a matter of time before their next limited-edition release comes out. The ones they have at present are running out, with the possible exceptions of red LTD and maybe Sultan Republic Treasury Edition. The last time they even offered rare decks was at the holidays and Black Ghost First Edition wasn't on the list. Now they've completely halted the tiered-gift program in exchange for some future "recognition points" reward program that appears to be months off schedule.
The idea of accumulating points over a series of purchases is appealing, but the idea of tossing your points down for a single gift is kinda lame compared to the old method of tiers. While it was a pain to come up with enough cash to make a big-tier purchase, getting something from all the tiers below as well made it seem worthwhile. Plus we have yet to see the "exchange rate" on these points - we're left to guess whether it's reasonable, generous or stingy until they finally unveil it properly. The way it works now, exchanging points for purchase discounts, seems a bit stingy in terms of the number of points equaling one dollar of merchandise: spend a dollar, get a point; spend twenty points, get a dollar off a purchase. This is simply a limited 5% discount based on how much shopping you've done with them before. It beats a kick in the teeth, but it makes me wonder how many points you'd need for some of the "gifts" they have yet to announce.
If it used to be that you had to buy, for example, $75 worth of merch for a Blue Masters deck, will you now have to accumulate 1,500 points instead? And for something like that fancy new Lucite case with a rare deck in it, formerly tiered at $475 - would that cost (gasp) 9,500? (And include NONE of the lesser-points items?) If so, I might earn that in about ten years at my current rate of points collecting - I've got a lifetime total of under 600 points since the point system started about a half-year ago. It could take me a solid year-plus just to get that Masters deck! People would practically have to buy up half the store to get the points they wanted in a reasonable amount of time. And worse, the Black Club discount I presently get would actually make it take just a little LONGER to get those points, if they're tallying the points based on the total before shipping costs and not the pre-discounted total. The two programs are actually at odds with each other.
Well, enough off-topic ranting, it's time for my meds...
