Nah. Ed Nash had the art, he had USPCC print the proofs; the only remaining thing he needed to do was give USPCC money. He didn't. His backer tiers were similar

Nah. Ed Nash had the art, he had USPCC print the proofs; the only remaining thing he needed to do was give USPCC money. He didn't. His backer tiers were similar to other card deck backer tiers, so it's not like he didn't get enough money from the Kickstarter. He either kept the money or (more likely) spent it on some other aspect of his promotion business earlier, in the hopes that he'd get the money to print the cards from somewhere else. Kickstarted card decks are really simple and low risk as long as you have the art. USPCC does a couple of dozen of these every year.