So does anyone have any ideas on how to get a birthday gift exchange started? I feel like for the first person it will be hard to convince people to send decks. "Hey, so send decks to this dude, and we PROMISE we will send decks to you in 9 months as well."
I love the thought of it but see no practical way to apply it in a fair, evenly-distributed manner.
Unless...perhaps you could make it available to your frequent steady posters only, since they're more likely to be trustworthy enough to make a fair and proper exchange. This also keeps some schmoe from wandering in, claiming it's his birthday, then abandoning the account and making a new one with a new birthday. I tend to set the bar too high on things like this - assuming you like this, Alex, what would you choose as the minimum rank/number of posts?
Actually, now that I'm thinking of this, you could run into issues with people simply being unable to afford gift giving...
So here's the simplest way to manage it: make some friends and swap with them! Just like real life, only better!