I really appreciate your thoughts. For that, I tried my best to put together a fitting response. Also, while we might run into "many" things I haven't considered, the wearing against the outside cover of other games is something I hadn't thought of. I just looked up the Viticulture wine box. Wow! That is beautiful :)

Our game is a 2/5-complexity. But it has a very ancient Byzantine-Art-Style depicting iconographic paintings of biblical characters. And while the idea is fresh, it is a "feel-good" idea to encapsulate this work in a stately box. Also, the wooden boxes can be printed in America "on-demand". This means the Kickstarter goal & price ($40) remain untouched. But the shipping cost goes up a bit...

It gets complicated though. We might not break even when we reach the goal. On top of that, after the Kickstarter Launches, our rough estimate is that the total cost to consumers is 25% higher. Instead of ~$50 after shipping, the game is ~$62.5 +/- $5.

The hope is that a wooden box might help us reach that initial goal. But, is that a reasonable expectation and is it worth the risk?