Hello again!

[Samurai007]

    Name:  Samurai007, or my real name is Tom
    Where you are from: Northern California
    Are you a Cardist? Magician? Collector? a combination of the 3?:  I'm a collector and I enjoy the artwork.
    What got you into the arts?:  Several years ago I started writing a Role-playing game (like Dungeons and Dragons, but set in a fantasy steampulp Victorian era) that uses a deck of playing cards instead of dice for determining the success or failure of actions in the game.  In that era, cards are a gentleman's game, but only ruffians play with dice!  While doing research and play-testing the game, I naturally looked into the availability of cards and what's out there, and discovered the recent explosion in collectable card decks, design studios and artists creating unique and interesting art in the form of cards.  I started buying a few decks with the excuse that it would look cool and add flavor when I was play-testing my game, and before I knew it I had several hundred different decks!  (By the way, I'm still working on the game, I have 130 pages written and still going, I hope to publish it later this year!)
    How you found out about the forums. We are always secretly curious:  When UC went down a while back, it looked like it was done for so I looked for a different card forum and found this place.  UC is down again (switching forum software I think), so here I am again.  Hopefully with new ownership all around the relationship between sites will be improved.

So, that's my intro, hi all, let me know if you have any questions for me!

[Don Boyer]

Hopefully with new ownership all around the relationship between sites will be improved.

You have my personal assurance as Head Administrator that all the rivalry nonsense is in the past and best left buried.  I've been welcoming UC expatriates for some months now, particularly when things were getting a little hairy toward the end of Mike Ferrante's reign.  You could be coming here from Jules Verne's trip to the Moon or from a hole in the ground for all that it matters - what we care about here is that you love cards as much as we do and it appears you met that prerequisite with flying colors!

It's good that you came when you did - there's some exciting things happening around here with the new management and you now have a front row seat!  You've probably noticed one of the first changes - a board dedicated solely to vintage playing cards, as well as "The Source - Card Collecting 101".

Please make yourself at home and if you have a question, it's a good bet that someone around here has the answer, so please feel free to ask.

[52plusjoker]

Welcome S...007
Good to see you here and we look forward to your contributions. We are trying to have a good relationship with everyone, and all sites, that are interested in playing cards - whether old or new, standard or special designs. So poke around as Don suggested and enjoy.

[Anthony]

Welcome Tom, nice to have you join the community 

Enjoy!

[Mada257]

Welcome! Good to have another Nor Cal card enthusiast. I have no doubt you will enjoy your stay.