Why does Daniel make a point of calling the current Madison Rounders "Black Edition"? I know the theory11 Artisans are also known as "Black Edition".
Have you ever thought that maybe he wanted too? I'd do that if I were him. It makes the deck have a certain finesse and an increased professionalism.
Unless he has no control of his brain, of course he wanted too. I highly doubt it has anything to do with finesse and increased professionalism. My reading into any choice of word only gives an alternative opinion for the sake argument. Either it came out thinking nothing of it or It was leaving the door open to the existence of another color. Unable to confirm or deny that fact basically tells me what I want to know.
Guys, it's really very simple. Jake/Xntrix, an employee of Ellusionist who would know these things, said there's no other color of Rounders on the release calendar. So there are no other Rounders. Will there be in the future? It could happen, just like purple Artifice decks happened. But the fact that it's not on the calendar makes it sound as if it's not even at some point in production or design, either.
As far as "leaving the door open to other possibilities" - that door is no more open or closed than it would have been if the deck didn't have any edition name on it! It's not finesse, it's not increased professionalism, nor is it an implication of future versions - it's MARKETING, plain and simple. He could call it the Peanut Butter edition, but that doesn't imply that Jelly, Jam, Wheat Bread and White Bread editions are in the works. Or there could have been NO edition name on it. None if it matters. It got the name it got to make it appear more attractive when being marketed in order to increase sales, without which no for-profit company will survive.
When T11 released the "Black Stingers", they were simply called Stingers. It was when the Red Stingers released that the black ones were retroactively given that name by the people buying them in the collectors' market to make them easier to tell apart. Some even call them "White Stingers", though that group tends to be in the minority since the red ones are also white. Didn't matter one bit that the first ones weren't called "Black Stingers" in the first place. When Ellusionist released the Masters Edition decks in red and blue, I don't think it was originally the game plan to make the Shadow Masters edition - but here it is, in all its glory. Same for when T11 released the "version 1" of any of their decks that had more than one version. They never were called "version 1" until version 2 was in the works. We didn't start calling the original Bicycle Steam Punk deck the "copper Steam Punks" until the USPC "brass" version, then along came the Silver Steampunks, the name of which implies that some person or people at USPC and/or T11 who are in charge of these deck names also identified with the other decks by their metallic coloring.
The converse also holds true. Who here has the Bicycle Limited Edition Series decks #1 and #2? Are you holding your breath waiting for #3, or any other decks from the planned ten-deck series? Or the Vintage Series - you think there are any plans on the schedule for the remaining six backs in the series to be released? The naming convention implies there will be more, but there aren't, and it doesn't appear that there are any longer any plans to be, either.
The names mean bupkiss when it comes to determining whether more varieties of a given deck will exist. It has everything to do with sales and the preferences of the people making these decks.
