Don, thank you for the welcome!
Oddly enough, I found out by asking! We had talked about it on UC, so I contacted D&D about it. They stated that it wasn't part of their package, and suggested that I get in touch with Stranger & Stranger. I did, and the person there gave me the heads-up. This person had obviously answered that same question before, and I got the strong impression that it was already in the works to do a very limited (their words) release. That should be easy to accomplish. The artwork, stock selection, test runs, et cetera, were done initially for their employee handout, or whatever the initial boxes were used for, so it would just be a matter of having a larger print run done. I wish that I had more details, but tats all that I have heard so far, although I was told that I'd be kept in the loop when more details were released.
I'm purely a collector, so my decks will never be opened so the beatifically detailed tucks ( I personally LOVE the tax stamp like seal!) in a matching detailed box is icing on the cake for me! I was very excited to hear that info from them, especially since I wasn't even confident that they would call back! I'll believe it when I see it, but I am very optimistic that we'll have something soon! I just hope that it's not priced like its solid gold!
I do agree that $25 is steep for a deck, but when you really think about the number of artists that contributed, as we as the probable production cost of the deck itself, it's not totally unreasonable, whether you choose to buy or not. I'm in for a few. I've bought far pricier decks than this one! Heck, you'd think that I would be skinny based on how little cash is left for food after all of the new cards are purchased every month!!
