The Artifice series may have had its share of over-running the course of its life, but the DM line has done this in roughly 12 months. Unfortunately it just has no more appeal, and I'll be comfortably leaving these alone.
With the Artifice line, it was a single basic design offered in a handful of colors, with the "Tundra" deck (a.k.a. Artifice Ghost) being the biggest departure from the basic formula. One deck line, a handful of colors, period. Not terribly sexy after all this time, but at least you know what you're getting when you buy an Artifice deck.
With the Madison decks, including the one he created with Theory11, it's been a disjointed series, one after the other, with a string of names that at this point just blend right into each other - Dealers, Hustlers, Players, Rounders, Butchers, Bakers, Candlestick Makers, Tinkers, Tailors, etc., ad nauseum, and with inadequate differences between them to generate enough interest at this stage of the game. The only name that actually stands out now is Limited, and that's not even an original Madison deck design, it's just an older design with his deck's faces slapped on it - and to me, it wasn't even an improvement on the original face design, which itself was simply USPC standard faces with Artifice indices and a visually interesting color scheme. At least the earlier designs bore some passing resemblance to classic deck designs used by many Las Vegas casinos or at the least popular with card players. This "Hustlers" design - I don't know what the heck it is, other than a 10X maginification of a corner of the Dealers with the most bizarre border set-up I've ever seen.
