Hello again, all pre-orderers!

This is update 3, which may be the first for those among you who only recently placed your pre-order. (The automated confirmation email that you would have received, is not geared towards a pre-order so please ignore any delivery timescales it mentioned.)

I was hoping to reach the required amount of pre-orders by end of September, but we're still not there with only two days to go. However, those of you who read my previous email know that I've decided to still go ahead with this. Thus, you'll all be receiving your decks for sure!

The printing company producing these decks is upgrading their machinery during October. I hope to get them on the phone tomorrow, to find out more about when they can schedule in Spirit Carrier oracle. A while back I ordered a sample deck from them, and whilst they've always been fast with their turn-around, I've still not received it. I mainly wanted to check the additional card trio, just to make sure they come out right. When I receive the sample deck, I'll post photos on Instagram & Facebook, as well as in my next update email.

Which brings me to the subject of additional cards. My intention with the 3 new cards was to bring the number of cards from 75 (1st edition) to 78 (2nd edition). But of course, just to complicate things, two more cards "made themselves known" to me. This poses a problem, because of my strong sense of absolutely having to include them. The printing machine only produces decks up to 78 cards, I'm told. So to up the amount to 80 cards per deck would be hugely beyond budget. Still, because I now NEED TO HAVE the cards titled In Visibility and Phoenix Rise, I'm exploring alternative ways to achieve it.

What this means in real life:

1) The ones among you who already own the 1st edition deck and placed a pre-order for the additional 3 cards, you will now receive 5 cards.

2) The ones among you who placed a pre-order for the full 2nd edition, will receive a deck with all the original 1st edition cards, plus these 5 new ones - a total of 80 cards.

If you look at the five cards above, you can see how those could be a reading in itself, can't you...

I'm of course also in the process of writing the guidebook entries for these cards. The trade-off here will be that when I send the 5 cards in an envelope to you, I will replace the separate guidebook print-outs with a digital PDF file. You can then print them at home, to keep with your original guidebook, or you can just refer to the texts in digital format if easier that way. This way, I can consolidate the shipping cost and keep it within the parameters. I thought adding brand new cards instead of guidebook pages is way more interesting! (Or, you can certainly pre-order the guidebook as well, where the entries for these 5 cards will be with all the others.)

Another thought that crossed my mind is that I could do a quick 2-week Kickstarter on the 2nd edition deck still, to get the funding to the level it would need to be. I'd rather not, but it's a possibility I'm considering. Because I already have nightmares of people contacting me later about how to acquire these extra cards, yet they're only available now for those who pre-order! Kickstarter might reach those who didn't realise this 2nd edition is on the way.

My own house move is still a few weeks away, so in order to fund the production with less pre-orders, I need to wait until then so that I will have access to funds to cover the rest of the production cost myself. Luckily, even if I wait until the end of October to start the production, the timescale will still let me start sending decks out to you at the end of November - as per the original schedule.

That’s all for now, I'll let you know when the production is on the way 💕

Many thanks for being part of the Spirit Carrier tribe!

~Mia

PS.

You’ll be receiving these group emails only during this pre-order phase and through to production completing. I won’t be bothering you unnecessarily, but thought it’s nice for you to periodically hear from me and how things are going. Any questions, just reply to this email and it comes directly to my inbox.

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