Comments on: Cheat your way to Victory: Win the Red Artifice Collection

By: Fiftin

Fiftin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:27:19 +0000

I’m currently working in the recording of my clip for the contest, but I am from Spain, and it is quite difficult to find people who are willing to participate and speak english. Can we film it in Spanish and send it with subtitles?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:09:04 +0000

IT is laughable to hear you say ” and yes, it saddens us to see so many on ebay”, Ellusionist has never been shy or seemed sad about mentioning “oh, these black ghost first editions are always on ebay for 300.00″ or “get these now before they skyrocket in value”. The fact that they have been sold on ebay for such large amounts of money is what makes them desirable. Ellusionist was well aware what they were doing in selling 3,000 of them under the conditions they did. You all knew they would end up on ebay, and then you could swindle kids into buying your stuff, so they can have “one of those decks everyone wants” which, honestly are no different in handling than the other artifice decks. They all handle the same, and all seem to draw a bit of suspicion the same. And by the way, no serious card player with half a brain would allow a deck into play with “ARTIFICE” written across the box. But, your target market looks past this because ellusionist says “they are super cool”.

By: Jake Steele

Jake Steele — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:18:32 +0000

Hi Ed,
Thanks for the comment. It was unfortunate how the release of the Red Artifice panned out, and we have certainly marked that up to learning, to prevent similar problems in future.
The Red Artifice deck was never meant as a deck to be sold – it was always to be given away as prizes and in promotions – just like the Black Ghost First Edition and Gold Arcane before it. Due to Public Demand however, we decided to release 3,000 of them for sale. What people do after they’ve bought them is up to them – and yes, it saddens us to see so many up on eBay. With those 3,000 gone, we are doing as originally intended with the remaining stock. Giving them away as prizes to contests such as this, and as gifts with purchase. As you say – rewarding the real customers. We do have some more plans for the remaining stock, so there will still be plenty of opportunities for you to get your hands on some, but they will always be as a promotional item, and not released as before.

By: Ed Stephens

Ed Stephens — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:22:00 +0000

I love the Red Artifice cards as well as the original and enjoy doing buisness with Ellusionist. But I got to be honest, although I realize that they are a limited edition, it really sucks that as soon as they were available they were almost instantly gone. Now in order to get a deck you either have to get the free gift which will cost you well over 300 dollars or try and win a contest in which the winner will get a good hand full and more than likely just put them on Ebay like the rest of the jerks out there that bought them up just to make a quick buck. I would have been the first to buy a few decks and actually use them maybe keep one or two sealed for collecting, however I was in the ER with my son who was very ill. Now I just see these thing all over ebay and the like. How wbout this Ellusionist how about instead of just giving them out on a first come first serve basis just for poeple to turn around and make more money than you would off of them try giving them out to people who have been loyal costumers to you, people who have done alot of buisness with you and have sunk alot of money into your company. Go ahead look through and see who has actually invested in you and who just baught a few decks here and there……reward the real costumers.