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Sorry for the weird question, felt like someone in this community would know how to deal with this.

I bought 5 packs of Dragon Shield Dual sleeves on CardMarket. They arrived fast and all packs were perfectly sealed. When I open the packs, 3 of the packs are defective. There's a black stripe on the top/bottom of the sleeves, which effectively mark them. These sleeves simply cannot be used. The other 2 packs seem decent, albeit with small defects on the side of the sleeves. Not big enough for me to complain, I think. They all come from the same batch.

I feel bad asking the seller for a refund, I don't think they had a way of knowing the sleeves were defective. The packs were sealed and the batch number is only visible after you open the packs. But maybe they have some sort of way to get the money back from their distributor or something? I have contacted them to see how to go from here but no reply so far.

I saw that Dragon Shield also has a contact form for defects but they warn me that since I didn't buy the sleeves from their store there is a very low chance they'll actually do anything. I submitted the form anyway to let them know that this batch is likely defective.

Who should provide compensation for defective sleeves? The seller or dragon shield?

EDIT: seller replied refusing any compensation, Dragon Shield has not yet replied. Lesson learned: I'll order from Amazon next time instead of throwing money away.

EDIT2: today, July 8th, Dragon Shield replied and offered me a full refund as a voucher for a purchase on their website, free shipping included. They stated that the manufacturing process of the Dual Mattes line makes this problem hard to avoid, though it was particularly bad in my case. I recommend avoid the "Dual Matte" line altogether.

Cheers!

Current decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/S75B70WYkUKS88clwjAkJw

My SO's bday is at the end of July and they've asked me to build them a deck. Most of their deck's are pretty high power so they requested something silly and different. I've gone over the commander/idea of the deck with them and they love it so now I'm just trying to touch it up before I order cards. With all of that out of the way here is the basic idea of the deck.

The deck is looking to give its opponents as many creatures as it possibly can. To this end it runs many creatures that give opponents tokens like [[Varchild's War-riders]] , [[Hunted Phantasm]] , and [[Ox Drover]] as well as ways to flicker them to recur those effects. It also runs cards like [[Alliance of Arms]] that can produce a ton of tokens quickly.

The next thing that the deck wants to do is pillow fort to not die at the hands of what it created. [[Pramikon, Sky Rampart]] is here to help with this, and the decks flickers make sure the direction can be switched to not ruin the game for one player. The deck also runs [[Propoganda]] , [[Windborn Muse]] , [[Ghostly Prison]] and similar cards to protect itself.

The deck makes tokens itself and can win with [[dragonshift]] when the opponents are beaten down enough. [[Storm Herd]] is in as another late game finisher. It can also win pillow-fort stlye with [[Azor's Elocutors]].

I'm trying hard to make sure the deck stays fun to play against. We play with the same pod every week and I don't want to give my SO a deck everyone hates. As long as the deck doesn't shut down the game completely I know it will be popular, the guys are very into goofy/unique ideas.

I'm not the greatest deck builder so I'm looking for feedback on the balance of different cards ie lands/creatures/draw/pillow-fort. I'm also looking for any cards that would be fun and fit the deck that I've missed. I'm trying to keep the budget around $100.

Thanks for reading!!

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