I never said to delete your UC profile if you have an opinion. What I said was you should delete your UC profile if you're upset that Paul made this deck. But as you yourself just said, "No one is upset Paul made this deck." So if you're going to call me out, please do a better job reading what I type.alric wrote:And when did having an opinion merit having our UC profiles deleted and banned from collecting cards? I thought you were better than that, vasta41. At least you were in the past.
Our opinions of what transparency is must differ. IMO we shouldn't even be having discussions like this (unless of course it's obvious and egregious which I think we can all agree this case is not) and Paul is not hiding anything; nor are some of the other designers you speak of. Every single deck creator here will tell you that all printing companies print extra decks (as much as 10%?) and the actual number down to the very last deck is different with each deck. If at the start of a project the creator says, "I'm going to print 1,000 decks" and USPCC send the creator 1,078 decks, some extra run offs, some dinged, some with glue exposed on the tuck, etc. I don't expect the creator to have to release a statement after the project is over stating that there are actually 1,078 decks. To me the 1,000 is as forthright as possible. So if you find it relevant for creators to disclose every last deck, even the screwed up ones that couldn't even function as a dogs chew toy, then I completely disagree with you and think that's a very demanding and high-strung way to be in this hobby.alric wrote:The bottom line is that if Paul and all the other designers gave full transparency for all their LIMITED decks, then we wouldn't even be having discussions like this.
Now if Paul, for some magical reason, had 1,000 AND ONLY 1,000 Chancellor decks but decided to re-tuck 50 of them, then like I said above, that's a totally different conversation (did Paul lie or deceive people?). I say it's not a big deal, you say it is- who cares? Either way what's done is done. The point is if the only way that he could produce this product was to dive into the Chancellor decks then I'm sure as hell happy he did.