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Playing face to face with friends is the best part of magic. I've proxied 30+ edh decks on my laser printer. I still money on real cards, but increasing my ki

by piyh 3y ago

Playing face to face with friends is the best part of magic. I've proxied 30+ edh decks on my laser printer. I still money on real cards, but increasing my kitchen table meta diversity with proxies was a great move. Building infinite budget Slivers, having perfect mana bases, and exploring jank to cedh power levels are what I've wanted from this game all my life.

PNewling 3y ago
Woah, did you have to hand cut all of those decks or how did you do that?
- starkparker 3y ago
  Can't speak to OP but a Cricut or budget equivalent cardstock cutter is a M:tG hacker's best friend. That and an unlimited supply of Modge Podge. A guillotine or rotary cutter and corner punch are probably faster but nothing's more satisfying than a whole deck of precision cut cards.
- piyh 3y ago
  I did it by hand with a scissors. I was losing my sanity every night for months trying to keep my newborn from crying. Printing tons of decks, cutting and sleeving was the kind of thoughtless work that fit in that time period.
water-data-dude 3y ago
I’ve done the same thing. I’ll eventually buy the cards, but I don’t want to buy cards, playtest the deck, and then find out that I want to replace this slightly expensive card with this other slightly expensive card. My friends are ok with playing against a proxied deck, in part because I keep the overall price of the deck reasonable (since eventually I’ll probably buy the cards if the deck isn’t an absolute dog). I made my proxies with some card-stock with a grammage of 300 g/m^2 which is roughly what MTG cards have (had to grab a big pack from a craft store, but that’s ok since I’ll find a use for the rest). I have a guillotine paper cutter, which made things a LOT easier than when I did this in college, and I also had a little corner-rounder-punch thing that made the final product look way better than expected. I have an inkjet printer, so they didn’t look perfect or anything, but they still looked a lot better than expected! And when they were in sleeves the “feel” was pretty close too!

by piyh 3y ago

PNewling 3y ago

Woah, did you have to hand cut all of those decks or how did you do that?

starkparker 3y ago
Can't speak to OP but a Cricut or budget equivalent cardstock cutter is a M:tG hacker's best friend. That and an unlimited supply of Modge Podge. A guillotine or rotary cutter and corner punch are probably faster but nothing's more satisfying than a whole deck of precision cut cards.
piyh 3y ago
I did it by hand with a scissors. I was losing my sanity every night for months trying to keep my newborn from crying. Printing tons of decks, cutting and sleeving was the kind of thoughtless work that fit in that time period.

water-data-dude 3y ago

I’ve done the same thing. I’ll eventually buy the cards, but I don’t want to buy cards, playtest the deck, and then find out that I want to replace this slightly expensive card with this other slightly expensive card. My friends are ok with playing against a proxied deck, in part because I keep the overall price of the deck reasonable (since eventually I’ll probably buy the cards if the deck isn’t an absolute dog). I made my proxies with some card-stock with a grammage of 300 g/m^2 which is roughly what MTG cards have (had to grab a big pack from a craft store, but that’s ok since I’ll find a use for the rest). I have a guillotine paper cutter, which made things a LOT easier than when I did this in college, and I also had a little corner-rounder-punch thing that made the final product look way better than expected. I have an inkjet printer, so they didn’t look perfect or anything, but they still looked a lot better than expected! And when they were in sleeves the “feel” was pretty close too!