Ted,
A complete reply to your last post would take my several pages and all day to write. I doubt my boss would look favorably on that. I have given a great deal of thought to this topic and eventually hope to set forth my theories in some written form. I would welcome your input on this project. I would point out just a couple things-1) We also have evidence of 25 cards sheets of caramel cards. That possibility has intrigued me for some time now. 2) Forgive the repetition, but if you look at your lists of the thirty toughest cards (which I substantially agree with) they simply could not have been printed in the same quantities. Hall and B. Brown, for example are at least ten, if not twenty, times more common than Walsh or Shean. No calculation of survivability rates can account for this. I would love to compare notes with you on this topic, but perhaps that would best be done off line at this point. My email is
edhans@monkberry.com.