How to make custom Magic the Gathering Proxies | Complete Tutorial 2023

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Hello everyone! Welcome to a long awaited and highly requested video.
In this video I will be covering a complete guide into making custom Magic the Gathering proxies and alters.
This will include creating the cards from scratch using cardconjurer, finding already made cards on mpcfill, as well as post editing, color enhancing, using makeplayingcards for submitting your order to print and finally showcasing the finished results of the alters and proxies printed. :)
Email: thecommanderduo@gmail.com
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MPCFill (downloading premade alters) mpcfill.com
Makeplayingcards(Printing your alters) makeplayingcards.com
GIMP (Post editing your alters) www.gimp.org/
How to run Cardconjurer locally on your PC | Follow the guide in this link
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Intro/Discussing Cardconjurer 0:00-3:30
cardconjurer/Designing card 3:31-11:05
Custom Set Symbols/Watermarks 11:06-14:20
Post Cardconjurer detailing 14:21-15:42
Gimp art overlaying/editing 15:43-20:03
Additional Cardconjurer Designing 20:04-25:34
MPCFILL premade cards 25:35-29:30
MPCFILL Cardbacks 29:31-30:25
makeplayingcards/getting cards printed 30:26-42:40
Showing printed cards: regular, glossy, foil 42:41-47:04
Wrapping things up/showing custom alters 47:05-49:43

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1 авг 2024

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@thecommanderduo 11 месяцев назад

For anyone who doesn't know how to access cardconjurer, there is a link in the description on how to run it locally on your computer.

@triggerdude 11 месяцев назад

Hey buddy I need some help.

@thecommanderduo 11 месяцев назад

Join our discord I would be happy to help. @@triggerdude

@johnrider1169 10 месяцев назад

Where I will find your discord?

@johnrider1169 10 месяцев назад

Because I need help to

@christopherpoet458 9 месяцев назад

@@thecommanderduo You are aware cardconjurer is back, right? It isn't catered to MTG like it used to be but the template system lets you still go for it. You just have to upload assets yourself now.

@paccmman5506 2 месяца назад

Thank you man! this is such a good tutorial! I just finished ordering me and some family some cards. I ordered 270 cards using s33 cardstock, gloss finish, shrink wrapped for a subtotal of $97.95, $20.99 standard shipping (lowest shipping cost) and a $7.30 sales tax for a total of $126.24 for those of you who want a update on prices. I am in the US.

@SengokuTheGouda Год назад

This is gonna be a life saver. I mainly just want to make a bunch of lands, because I like full arts, and I have this compulsive need for every one in a deck to be different >.>

@kariballote8953 Год назад

This is SUCH a good video holy shit. Thank you so much, the amount of resources and knowledge passed down it's insane.

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Thank you, I tried to cover everything in enough detail to where anyone could come back and reference this video from start to finish :)

@shadette0823 10 месяцев назад

Cardconjuer looks different when I go to the website

@JustinWedekind Год назад

Best mpc vid to date

@fabiomogicato9405 Год назад

I'm so ready for this. Thank you, you really are the best :)

@Swashbuckling13 6 месяцев назад

Upvoted for showing me the trick to double click on card backs! Thanks for that.

@s.shadowwe3012 Год назад

Best tutorial out there!

@scovillemtg Месяц назад

Thank you for this! I didn’t even know about this website

@buberoini 9 месяцев назад

Yo holy crap this video is beautiful. This will save me sooooooo much money, thank you so much!!!

@haroshunmcdermott3250 Год назад

very helpful, thanks for putting in the time

@deevad8119 Год назад

Briliant. Thanks a lot !

@robertschack6341 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much. I was actually looking to pay someone to do what I could do myself. You saved me 🎉

@shoresy6927 Год назад

Thank you for showing us the actual creation

@reapernail Год назад

Thank you for all that you do. This helps out so much for making proxies and I actually use them as fun hand outs when I have tournaments with my friends.(I'm not selling the cards just handing them out, 1 per person) your old video I reference alot and I stopped when they took cardconjurer down. I'm glad there is still a way to use it. I'm now going to try to pop out the art and the pixels comment will make that alot easier.

@thecommanderduo Год назад

I love that idea, and you're very welcome.

@bear7577 Год назад

do you know how to still use it?

@kelp-ist3469 10 месяцев назад

Cool, I've wanted to make a pixel art theme for some zombies like those old arcade games with the little blasters but didn't know where to customize the card so I can make it look all cool without ruining the text

@fortress8471 Год назад

Thanks ive been wanting to make a titanfall themed edh for a while. ive started making some cards using this and its been going great

@caseyl5001 9 месяцев назад

Man I’d love to see that sounds badass.

@Draqson Год назад

What I think needs mentioning is the bordering - If you're trying to have borderless cards and you use Card conjurer with no further adjustments you'll have 1500x2100, MPC will cut out a bit too much from the border - at 16:30 he mentions that cards have 1632x2220 - if you have a programm that simply changes canvas-size (Not the size of the picture itself) to add black borders, it'll remain borderless and fits well. I mention it here, because I had to experiment to get the right* resolution done... (*I used 1650x2250 and it's barely too much - less than 0,5mm black border) If only I had seen this before I ordered my last cards... 1632x2220 seems to be the perfect fit.

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Yeah that’s a fair point. I made this tutorial assuming people would always add the margin border because it will always fit that size 1632x2220 with margins. I also learned if you want to do borderless the margin you add is the first one that puts a full border around the card. I tested it and it won’t have any black around the borderless frame and won’t cut anything out.

@go1988 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for mentioning this! Even when I add the margin border in Cardconjurer, the card that I download is still 1500x2100. Changing the size in paint will probably change the image itself, not the canvas as you mentioned? Would it work in GIMP to change just the canvas to 1632x2220?

@brittdaniels3150 Год назад

Nice to now, mite look in to it, latter thank you.

@leeeneas8529 Год назад

Vid goes burrr

@Krbasshead 10 месяцев назад

I Started making cards recently and the real hard part is the type of card stock to print on. My printer has no issue with 300gsm paper but it’s so thick. This method seems so cheap it may be the way to go.

@olynxv240 4 месяца назад

Thank you for this tutorial, you really help me to make proxies easier. Like and subscribe!.

@brentdeacon9218 10 месяцев назад

Hi mate, I would suggest you looking into Raster Masks as they allow you to do a similar thing but a bit more accurate in my opinion, great video though

@Modest7787 11 месяцев назад

Bro does love his overlord

@samanthacamargo 10 месяцев назад

Is there a way to easily add custom card backs on mpc fill?

@TheMLGNimmo 10 месяцев назад

the website looks different on your guide than it does for me, seems to have way less stuff on it than yours does. :(

@tommyjohnson9190 8 месяцев назад

It’s bc card conjurer was taking down by Wizards a while ago so he created a version of his own just look up old card conjurer

@dashelculbreth8213 6 месяцев назад

How would you add margins to a card? Like if you found a cool custom proxy but it ends up lookin like that mana crypt.

@Schwaeen 10 месяцев назад

i created a card on mtgcardbuilder but when i want to print them on makeplayingcards the cards are just always to big. do i have to create the card on cardconjurer?

@Balduvian Год назад

hi, can anyone tell me how to add phyrexian font on card conjurer ? i tried but when i copy paste its just some random font and not phyrexian.

@shoresy6927 Год назад

The red dotted lines creeped me out. I thought I did something wrong but thats how it looks on yours too. I see it cut the extra margin off in preview. Idk why the red dotted lines though... it makes me think that anything outside it would be cut

@shadowhyena1015 5 месяцев назад

how do you fix the margin for the cards I tryed and couldnt get it to work

@LukasFriedrichs 2 месяца назад

I ordered my first 18 cards, they look fine overall, but the regular frame seems like 0,5 mm too narrow. I used the 1/8 inch margin… how can that be?

@dathamster5875 5 месяцев назад

Is there any chance you can upload the actual jpeg of the Eren vorinclex?

@fps_disrupt2080 4 месяца назад

As of April 2nd 2024 the website is completely different from this video and I can’t even do anything compared to what you are doing. Is there a way to fix this or am I just out of luck.

@messiket616 Год назад

Fucking sick tysm

@BOODROCKA 11 месяцев назад

I really appreciate you showing the in depth process. Ive tried to follow the reddit post to install OG card conjurer but its still not working. Do you know of a video to show the whole process?

@thecommanderduo 11 месяцев назад

Join our discord and I can help you! I'm Jadus Natah when you get in, just PM me.

@animeking1357 Год назад

Super cool. I definitely want to print some proxies sometime for those really pricey cards. What I'd really like though is for someone to do one of these but for Yugioh cards. There's plenty of custom Yugioh card makers but there doesn't seem to be any tutorials on how to print them on MPC. I've got a handful of fully custom archetypes that I'd love to have as physical cards. Got a link to the artist of those Zelda arts used for those lands?

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Tom Garden is the artist!

@animeking1357 Год назад

@@thecommanderduo Thank you!

@dylantchopourian9838 2 дня назад

Anyone know how to add the enchantment icon to the bottom left, for flip cards? Like Eskia, god of the tree

@tengenuzui102 Год назад

Que tipo de papel vc usa ?

@kadestockton4463 11 месяцев назад

Tried to run this locally and holy shit I am so confused. I may be too stupid but I followed the instructions through the posted link and can't get it to work. Don't understand all the coding parts...

@deevad8119 Год назад

Hi, thanks A LOT for this. You unlocked so much :p There is something I can't figure out though. Is there a way to remove the black border at the bottom of the frames ? I'd like to have my cards completely full art. If not, is there a way to modify/create a frame to import it after ? Thanks in advance for anyone helping me.

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Yes there is! I found a way to do it on cardconjurer. If you’re not already, join our discord and message me. I can create a small video on it :)

@oceansetcorcoran750 10 месяцев назад

As the artist and not the tech person please PLEASE I beg for you to explain how to get the card properly sized to for when I want to use the file to buy on MPC. Either I am over thinking it or something is not adding up for me. I can't seem to get the cards text to fit within the red lines even remotly close! I am working on downloading the cardconjurer to my computer thinking that will change the outcome but I am so stumped.

@thecommanderduo 10 месяцев назад

Would be more than glad to try and help you! Join our Discord and DM Jadus Natah, that is my username and I can help you from there. discord.gg/dW2akK86

@caynay Месяц назад

great video. two questions: 1) why put saturation higher on cardconjurer? will it not be vibrant enough? 2) did you ever have to upscale the DPI of pictures uploaded to MPC. i think cardconjurer saves your png as 96 DPI and MPC says at least 300.

@thecommanderduo 19 дней назад

Sometimes I just like the extra color pop with the saturation but its by no means necessary. I would say no, I have submitted some really high res upscaled cards that are about 30mb per card and they still turn out the same as something that's much lower res. Their printing only go so high. They just want you to have high quality card images so that they don't turn out really blurry and such.

@Zeke8762 Год назад

Ooooo are you back using the new card conjurer?

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Better, the OG Cardconjurer.

@Zeke8762 Год назад

@@thecommanderduo woop, can't wait.

@killerinstinctsmofo Год назад

Can you show how you run Cardconjurer locally? I have followed the post steps multiple times on that Reddit thread with no luck. I've asked a question on that thread with no one attempting to answer it..

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Did you do the WAMP method? That's how I installed it, once on windows 10, and on Windows 11 with no issues. I saw they have a couple other newer ways now too.

@VictorDiGiovanni Год назад

Photoshop generative fill solves ALL the artwork problems. Just add more to top and sides.

@shoresy6927 Год назад

Got my cards in. Are yours thinner than the regular magic cards?

@thecommanderduo Год назад

I don’t really notice them being thinner. They might be, but once in sleeves you won’t be able to tell the difference.

@barakaafrobama6519 Год назад

Okay so this is a bit of a big question, I don’t have the resources to make these atm unfortunately, any chance you make these for people who pay you for them? Like they just put in their suggestions and whatever images they want used and you make some custom cards and send it through to them for a fee of however much? My only problem is I don’t have any computer to run this on and it seems wildly different using it on my phones web browser. If not then all gucci bro thought I’d ask tho

@thecommanderduo Год назад

I cannot legally charge as a service as I don't own the rights to Magic or the artwork but I could totally do something like that and you could just tip me for that. If you want to talk more, feel free to join our discord. There should be links in a bunch of our other videos!

@kriji Год назад

Is there someone who can describe me how you run the conjurer on a mac? I don't get this docker-thing done. At the point I should run the "make-command" it doesn't work.

@thecommanderduo Год назад

I installed mine with the WAMP method. I haven't done any other methods unfortunately and I'm not sure if it's different on mac vs windows.

@GustavoSantos-xo9mu 3 месяца назад

how much for each card?

@bear7577 Год назад

How do we still use the OG cardconjurer??

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Check description.

@mr_matic4500 6 месяцев назад

Why are you adding the 1/8margin? Is this mandatory for the card to look good after it's printed out?

@broadWayy 4 месяца назад

If you don't add the margin, it turns out like the Mana Crypt at 37:07 (the edges get cut off)

@insaa9639 10 месяцев назад

Can i play tournamets with proxys? Or is only to play with friends?

@thecommanderduo 10 месяцев назад

If you own the real cards as well, usually yes. Depends how high tier the tournament is. I have played with them before, I just bring a binder of the real stuff.

@lorenzogasparroni2449 11 месяцев назад

Hello, how can I get the foil effect?

@thecommanderduo 11 месяцев назад

You just select the holographic option when you're in makeplayingcards.

@Daniel-ge9vn 3 месяца назад

I'm trying to input the art I made in photoshop into MPC and I cant get the cards to resize correctly to upload them into MPC. No matter how I change the size in photoshop, MPC acts like I did nothing to change the card size and still gives me the same borders cut the same way. Does anyone know how to fix this. I have over 200 proxies I've made in photoshop. These printout just fine in the dimension I need for paper proxies. I want to make the cards look more official using MPC. I've even tried other trading card makers and none are as good or easy to use as MPC. The next step for me would be to just buy a high quality printer and use cardstock to print the cards onto. I feel like its stupid to spend that much money when I COULD USE MPC IF ONLY THE DAMN PICTURES WOULD FIT PROPLEY. I might have rigged the game from the start by using a card border from a card on scryfall and I use the original text for the cards off of scryfall from my proxies.

@thecommanderduo 3 месяца назад

I don't have any photoshop knowledge. You may want to try reaching out to reddits or discords that specialize in Photoshop/card altering.

@gabzsy4924 Год назад

Man, this video got be VERY excited about being able to print my cards and designs but after I completed all the steps shown in the video I went to the checkout page and it's 66usd to ship it to Brazil....it's literally the same exact distance to the US and I order stuff from that same area very often paying little to no shipping fees. It made this whole project of mine a waste of my time and energy and I'm so dissapointed...I wanted my cards so bad.

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Shipping charges alone was $66.00?? or it was $66.00 in total.

@Bronkeykong 11 месяцев назад

Could you do a video on how you made them yourself? I know how to acetone the fronts but am a little lost how to get a card image made and transferred onto a card thats been wiped.

@thecommanderduo 11 месяцев назад

In the future I could definitely do that. I need to bust out all those supplies again haha. I'm sure I could though!

@Bronkeykong 11 месяцев назад

That would be awesome!@@thecommanderduo

@TCG9777 11 месяцев назад

I'd pay top dollar for you to make me an alter of my favorite commander

@joejojo5966 11 месяцев назад

can you use prepaid gift cards lol?

@Innate47i1 3 месяца назад

I just did like 300 cards without adding the margin. I want to die. Is there any salvaging this project or do I have to start from scratch?

@thecommanderduo 3 месяца назад

Oof. Well, it depends. If they all have a black border or if they're all extended art it should be pretty easy to fix. If it's full art, its going to be really hard to fix.

@christopherpoet458 9 месяцев назад

Good video. But I am going to note to any interested who see this that cardconjuer is back up, its just not dedicated to MTG anymore. However, the template system will let you upload assets to the platform so you technically can still make your MTG cards.

@gabriel262 Год назад

What are you pressing to copy on Gimp?

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Ctrl C

@pops91 Год назад

Great video as always! But has anyone tried to play with the settings of mpw for the foil versions? I feel like changing saturation or brightness on foils would fix the dull colors on foils

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Yes I did a test batch already. They still came out dull with the overlay of the foil. I cannot get it to look good. Since they put the foil layer process over the card it will always darken and dull it. I would love to see if anyone has found some kind of way to make them look good but I have definitely tried already lol

@alexjones3458 Год назад

@@thecommanderduo the foils you showed at the end that you made personally looked really good dude. I've done the same thing before but my results weren't as good. I think I need higher quality photos for a start but I'm curious what kind of transparency paper you used because the ones I made ended up a little thicker than I would prefer.

@rebeccachambers4701 5 месяцев назад

its ridicoulous it scheaper to print a a custom order full holographic proxy deck then it is to get a regualr edg deck

@MageSkeleton Год назад

This video appears to be outdated as CardConjurer has changed what their site has and is. There is no "import/Save" you CANNOT type in the name of a card and it pull that all up, they DO NOT have all the different card types they've removed all that. Unless your using "the wayback machine" or something to make use of their old database and features the site looks NOTHING like what your working with and it's amazing your video is only 2 months old.

@thecommanderduo Год назад

Sorry I didn't see this comment sooner. Yes if you look in the video I am running it locally and have included a link in the description on how to run it.