What’s more important to you, the art or the stock? I suppose we could all put percentages on how we feel about it, but I know I’m hugely more interested in how cards feel. I want a thin flexible plastic card with some nice texture - cards that you can hear, but riffle like butter and without effort.
If you can put some nice looking art on the front and back, great, but that is so secondary. I’m probably 80/20 stock/art. Maybe 90/10.
The reason I ask is I’m baffled when smaller vendors, like faded spade most recently, and desjgn, switch stocks. I guess I got a feel for why it happens with desjgn’s very open struggles on his latest release. Dealing with card printers can clearly be a challenge. But from what I can piece together, this is at least his 3rd different stock in four releases. And faded Spade has now released two different cards on two different stocks. I would think they’d avoid changing stock at all costs. To me, the stock IS their brand - it’s what guides my purchase. But I guess what I’m pieceing togetger is maybe these guys are more interested in getting their art into our hands, and if a different manufacturer can do it more quickly, or cheaper, that’s who they’ll go with.
What do you guys shop for - the look, the feel, or some combination?
If you can put some nice looking art on the front and back, great, but that is so secondary. I’m probably 80/20 stock/art. Maybe 90/10.
The reason I ask is I’m baffled when smaller vendors, like faded spade most recently, and desjgn, switch stocks. I guess I got a feel for why it happens with desjgn’s very open struggles on his latest release. Dealing with card printers can clearly be a challenge. But from what I can piece together, this is at least his 3rd different stock in four releases. And faded Spade has now released two different cards on two different stocks. I would think they’d avoid changing stock at all costs. To me, the stock IS their brand - it’s what guides my purchase. But I guess what I’m pieceing togetger is maybe these guys are more interested in getting their art into our hands, and if a different manufacturer can do it more quickly, or cheaper, that’s who they’ll go with.
What do you guys shop for - the look, the feel, or some combination?