i like the art but they are never going to make it for $5,000. It's one thing to set your sights low and hope to make enough to fund the deck, but as mentioned so many times - in the end it'll cost you $10K - $12K to produce and ship. What happens if they reach $5,001? (Granted Posthumo made $39K, but this is a different audience)
10% to Amazon & KS = $500
10% taxes in general = $500
5% no pays = $250
10% shipping = $500 (assuming the quanity of decks equals the goal level)
Money left over to produce the deck: $3,250
I love the art but I agree, there is something just not right about the design. Someone put their finger on it and tell me. Regardless, I'm pledging on the deck, my 5 daughters love faries! (My son tolerates them as he does with all things related to having 5 sisters)
Consider two possibilities: 1) he's using some of the excess from Postumo to make this, or 2) he's just using a really inexpensive printer - believe it or not, they're out there.
Gendron did exactly the same thing with the Postumo deck - it had a $1,000 goal, a pittance. If this is about $9 average per deck, he needs to sell 556 decks to meet the goal (again, assuming he offered nothing but decks). At USPC prices for a project in the 2,500-5,000 deck range, an on-the-high-side estimate would be a little over $2,000 to make all those decks. There are a number of printers overseas, largely in places like China and Taiwan, that can make a deck for a lower per-deck price and are willing to take on smaller print runs. Some printers I know of would cost LESS THAN HALF of what USPC charges while still delivering a good-quality product, minus the fancy name branding, shipped right to the major port of your choice.
So given all of this, he has a comfort range within which he can work if he doesn't make it to USPC funding.
Ladies and gentlemen!
We have found it! The absolutely most gimmicky reward for a playing card project!
A FREAKIN POKER TABLE
Man I wish it were a craps table, i don't play poker (at least no one will play against me). 
Actually, gang, wouldn't the most gimmicky be their $10,000 goal - everything but the kitchen sink AND a trip minus airfare to New Orleans to hang out with the artists?
Despite the fact that practically no one will be interested and have the cash to pick up one of those rewards, it's good to have pie-in-the-sky stuff like that. Think of it like this: if you want the moon, the sun and the stars and you only ask for the moon and the sun, you're very unlikely to get everything you want. Once in a blue moon you WILL find a backer for a project who wants in on that level and is willing to pay for it - but if you don't make the offer, you'll never find that backer, at least not at the level at which you could get him or her to commit.
Don't get me wrong, many aspects of this deck are beautiful taken by themselves. I think the problem is that nine different artists (!) does not make for a cohesive style. There's just something off about it.
Now if Brian Froud were to do a fairy deck on KS...
I agree that there's a lack of a cohesive style in the art and it's a little jarring. If you can't get one artist doing all the work, at least get all the artists in agreement as to just what a fairy looks like. With the "clan" structure, you could even get some agreement in terms of what a particular fairy clan looks like, much like how different tribes of elves, orcs, dwarves, etc. from something like Dungeons and Dragons have cultural and at times physical differences in appearance.
Randy, I agree about the dieline on the tuck box. If one wants to show off the box art, then show it without the die at all, then show it as it will appear after running through the press but before being assembled.
Collector, I'm in agreement in that the frames on the courts aren't needed and take away from this design rather than contribute to it.
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