Having his own private stash of cards is very smart for futures sales of all of his products as well as his personal branding. It was a brilliant marketing move for the erdnase dealers to be sold like they were.As we all know Madison and E instantly moved 5,000 green decks by packaging one scarlet deck with each brick sold. By "only" releasing 400 scarlets they sold 5,000 thousand greens. I bought a brick myself in fact and like the cards Madison Dealers.Madison is still sitting on approx. 2100 scarlet dealers.
2500 scarlet rounders, dealers and players so that's 7,500 scarlet decks now that we are aware of. Not too rare all things considered. Madison will have plenty of decks to help spur sales for all of his future projects, keep for personal use, give away to friends or to sit on them and see if they ever become more valuable and sell them on ebay one deck at a time.
You'd be amazed at just how quickly a creative card man can go through that many decks. Let's just say that it isn't a lifetime supply! I doubt he'd be putting them on eBay - why, when he can simply sell them from his own website?
Don, is right. Because the Players are a Theory11 (T11) product, scarlet players would never see the commercial light of day. I'm a little surprised that Madison still mentions Players or answered questions about them. I would have thought that to be counterproductive now contracted with Ellustionist (E). It makes me feel like Madison has no issues with T11. Why would he? Madison and E seem to be doing very well for them selves. Not that T11 isn't but T11 seems to be the one that got the short end of stick on this deal.
Madison could, in all likelihood, sell the Players on his own site, along with his other fine magic products. He may have a deal with E now, but it can't be exclusive if he's still selling his own products - aside from Brad Christian, E's performers generally go into deals for a set time period or number of products, then they're off on their own. Some of their older merchandise wasn't even produced by them, like the De'vo videos and the early Ferguson stuff.
Biggest possibility for those decks is that he'll keep the bulk of them, eventually releasing limited quantities to the public either as purchasable or as a prize/premium. I can't imagine he's doing a lot with them now considering all the E decks he's promoting, but it's not like they're going to go stale after the use-by date, right?
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