Fred do you like the madison rounders deck ?
What do they have to do with anything? Other than that the Rounders were more original than this - Madison at least had to make a logo and alter some courts to look like his friends...
If this guy is hoping to introduce custom cards, I hope his artistic talents are greater than what we've see so far. Because up to this point, any kid who can play with Photoshop could have made this deck. I doubt he'd make his February delivery date. I mean, seriously - we're talking about a project creator who couldn't even be original in his tier's copy, opting instead to plagiarize from a different, more popular project. He calls this "retro" - retro what, exactly? He copied a deck design that came out earlier this year, for cryin' out loud... So, what counts as "retro" today? June? April? Last Christmas?
It's also pretty clear that he didn't pre-vet the design with USPC, since there's no USPC "fine print" anywhere on the box, not even on the bottom, the usual home for the fine print. And I think he's making a big assumption about how quickly his decks will be made in the first place, since he clearly doesn't realize the backlog that begins over at USPC heading into the end of the year, combined with their holiday closing period. If he waits until the beginning of November to contact them and get the ball rolling, he'll be lucky to have a signed contract by December, and likely won't see it hit the printing press until the New Year. His cards would probably not be ready until the end of February at the earliest. And that's without creating a single custom court card.
I'm curious to see what "creative" ideas he uses on his "custom" courts. I'd guess he'll take standard courts and paste some anarchy symbols into the design, and perhaps on the large pips as well. Ooooh, "creative"...