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I'm a fan of Buyworthy, I've ordered from them about a dozen times, but I think in trying to start partnering with artists to help produce decks, choosing this one may not have been the best first step. Time will tell, but all the same issues from the first drafts are still present. The courts are standard, the artwork isn't any more interesting or less basic than when it was stick figures, and the theme is still heavy handed and executed poorly. It still reminds me of little more than a young teen's DeviantArt artwork after getting their hands on Photoshop. But none of that is the worst part, the worst part is the heavy focus on the word 'Faith' to represent the theme. The first thing that word brings to mind is religion, which represents the opposite of the themes in this deck, so immediately there is this glaring and insurmountable disconnect between the title and the content which never should have made it past editing. It's such an easily avoidable error, Hope or Belief would have been the obvious choices if they wanted to stick to a single word. Although this may have happened due to a language barrier, I don't know.

It's not a deep theme (unless you're a Harvonsgard, even though it's completely against what he believes in), there are countless ways to execute it and ways it has been executed in other mediums over the centuries, I'm not sure why this was the one which was chosen. The core underlying idea is a good and worthy one, it just doesn't reach the surface. The motivation to support new artists is a good and worthy one, but there needs to be some guidance and curation to make it work. Others may feel differently of course, but I can only see it as a missed opportunity for something potentially unique and special from the perspective of and incorporating the culture of a developing country. The only positive I can give it is the jokers, I like them, and they do more to represent the style and theme than the entire rest of the deck.

Theme makes zero sense. Period.

This is the experience I had upon viewing the campaign page and shortly there after. Your experience may be different.

I caught myself looking at this with my head tilted to the side. I was wondering what was going on, then I was wondering why I was wondering at all and clicked out of it.

Yeah this is just a bad deck. Theme is not only poorly executed but improperly explained. The jokers are nonsensical. The art style is, someone said it earlier, reminiscent of a teenager's DeviantArt page that he'll one day look back upon, cringing.

Also, I get that he wants to make a political statement/take a moralistic stance and thus criticism is difficult for him to take, but the creator acted like a child on UC when he posted on the drafting page. This projects still needs an immense amount of work before anyone takes it seriously. This is what happens when you are combative with constructive criticism.

Backs are cute, I get that they are making a statement one which I generally support. But it really needs to get some custom courts to be a gucci from me.

Fes wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:15 am This is the experience I had upon viewing the campaign page and shortly there after. Your experience may be different.

I caught myself looking at this with my head tilted to the side. I was wondering what was going on, then I was wondering why I was wondering at all and clicked out of it.

Relatable.

I was totally confused. They had a bunch of people on IG who were helping promote the deck...to the point I thought I was missing something. Like I was supposed to realize how amazing this deck was...and I just wasn't seeing it.

Full disclosure: I say this as a critic with zero actual artistic talent.

KingfisherZero wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:38 pm I was totally confused. They had a bunch of people on IG who were helping promote the deck...to the point I thought I was missing something. Like I was supposed to realize how amazing this deck was...and I just wasn't seeing it.

LOL... just your typical Instagram circle jerking.