That was the point I was making. Maybe you read that one sentence as if I had a questionmark or something; we're on the same page here, I'm guessing.

I'm not sure WoTC totally understands it though. They probably saw that paper Slivers decks from TSP were selling for $30 and thought people would pay that for their foilies. OTOH, part of the reason the slivers deck was $30 was that SCG and co. had to buy boxes of 12 decks at a time and needed to give people a reason to look at the storm or white weenie decks as a good deal in an attempt to sell decks consistantly across the board.