Okay, the version I received today is matte and vibrant with squared corners. The one I had earlier was semi-gloss and dull with rounded corners.
The ISBN #'s are the same on both decks. But I really think there are more than two versions of this deck. Silverlyn talked about her matte version being much larger than the glossy, and when comparing mine...they're just about identical with only a 1/16" difference in width which was barely noticeable. Certainly not enough to make any difference in ease of handling.
Both my decks have the 2004 copyright date on them. Marion said her copyright said 2001-2004, and hers is a matte/vibrant version. Perhaps that earlier version has larger dimensions. So it looks like there are at least three printings of this deck. And firefrost seems to have yet another version, which would make it four. (Hers are semi-gloss and dull-colored with rounded corners)
I also noticed, comparing with the images online, the scans seem to show a tiny bit more image, which is cut off along the edges of my cards. Maybe the older, larger version matches the online scans in color and complete content.
The matte, vibrant deck I have now came in a plain purple box, with a cover pasted on the top. The semi-gloss, dull deck came in a box decorated with images of the deck all around. The LWBs are a little different from each other in content, but contain the same copyright date and ISBN #'s. The website and email addresses are different though.
stormdancer... Curious...Where did you purchase the deck? Did you buy it from the Luman site directly?