Wizard’s greed? They aren’t the ones selling Gaea’s Cradle for $800. If everyone just prints proxies then Wizards is done and no more new sets. Also no card stores so have fun playing Magic at your kitchen table where you don’t really need proxy fetch lands to have fun anyway.
Hell yes!!!!! It’s awesome to see someone else using this method! I’ve been doing this for ages! Although I use slightly different options in mtgprint, i.e. I find black corners gives the prints a cleaner look unless you want to spend the time snipping all the white corners off. PRO TIP: You ask someone working there about printing on card stock instead of regular printer paper. That way you can put the proxies directly in the sleeve instead of using bulk cards as backing.
@@fasterbuilder11depends on the card stock. I just personally print regular paper and buy those Bicycle brand playing cards made out of thin plastic to put my prints on.
Graphic designer here. Never done these myself but I would use 250 - 300 g/m2 (grams per square meter) uncoated paper. You can print the paper on both sides (you just have to find a backside pdf in the right dimension and align them with the frontside. You need a bit of photoshop skills for that since the webside doesnt give the backside of the cards). Make sure to include trim marks. After you cut the cards you can take them a level further and use a corner cutter to... round the corners duh. Ask for that at your local graphic studio, it should be a couple of bucks. You should have wonderful proxys after that :)
@@noobemperor5149 If you use 350g the card will be way too thick, I use a full deck of 325g proxies and my deck was about 30% taller than all the real decks at the table
This is awesome! I play magic with my Little brother and 50 euros for premade Commander decks seemed eccessive, but this is a game changer thank you so much i never tought of this ❤️
Thank you for this. Tired of scanning at home lol. Didn’t know the pdf website, etc existed. I’ll sub just because this is concise and perfectly explained.
Best thing I've done, buy some 120lb cardstock, go to your local office store with self service printers (I use office Depot) bring the paper in, give it your PDF file, print a whole deck for less than $10. I wouldn't suggest scissors, get a pepper slicer, if you wanna be fancy get a 3mm corner cutter punch, then sleeve it. Feels real, looks great (besides the white back of the card)
If you give the sheets a black background and play with dual matte dragon sleeves you dont need to cut the radius of the corners or have a pesky white cresent at the corner of your cards
But how will you know where to cut exactly? Maybe you can cut a bit wrong making the card uneven, tho you can avoid this with just lightly drawing your line and afterwards cutting
Thank you so so much! I was thinking I could find images, size them, then do this myself. The website you gave saved me an unbelievable amount of time plus I love the ability to easily choose between the different art on the card. Can't thank you enough
Depending on cost your local library is also a decent spot with what is most likely a solid color printer. I usually take the pictures home and cut them out there with a pair of scissors.
If you are looking to upgrade your home printer, the Epson Eco Tank models let you add ink directly instead of using cartridges. This can dramatically lower costs as printer cartridges are the biggest expense for home printers.
When I go to print these, they show that it will print in color but doesn't. My printer is able to print images and should be printing these in color but it isn't. Please help
I did exactly that but the image on the paper appears smaller than the real cards =( i asked a employer to print it to me. Do you think he decreased the size ?
actually this happened to me too. but when i used my own printer it worked perfectly well. i believe its some settings the stores or i dont know maybe because they cant print on the whole paper
I shrink them down just a little and put a cheap pokemon card behind it with the pokemon line underneath it. It has a yellow border so I can identify it easily. I have the real card in a little box and can swap it out easily for real play while having a deck that my friends can play.
This is especially good for 93/94 old school, 93/95 old school, vintage and legacy. Where decks can reach up to $90,000-$100,000 Good thing I kept all my cards from 1993 and 1994 though! $$$$$ And as a photographer I have all these tools at home
Very important when you hit print in the website MAKE SURE your paper style is not a4, make it Letter 8.5x11.0 in so you do not get the website advertisement on the paper sheets!
Just put an order in through staples and they called and told me it was trademarked material even when I the art is on public domain. I can physically do it myself but Staples refuses to print for me.
@@moxcardboardtv8797 I've worked at the "kinkos" Now "FedEx Office" and he is correct. The corporate policy at that shop(and as I've heard from other similar print shops) is they won't allow employees to print copy righted material unless you can prove that you own the right to print(example you are taking an online course and they give you .pdf files to study but you want to print them to use for note cards or whatever readying etc. then you can show you were given the rights to use the files for yourself). I've never seen any policy that said it would stop someone from self-printing on the machines in the shop though. This all comes down to the fact that the company doesn't want to walk that grey line legally because it could open up grounds for potential lawsuit since the company makes money off of printing for you, but isn't paying any agreement fees to the licensed product(book, artwork, etc.)
Silly question but will taped out have the upcoming fallout expansion? I’m not into magic but I’d like to get these cards and I don’t mind if I have to make proxies since I’m on a budget. If anyone knows it would be most appreciated.
Please answer me. I live in a place where we don't have MTG cards. What's the best site to get high resolution pics of MTG cards. I want to make proxies so bad.
I have to ask. I really am getting into the cable when I test a variety of texts, and I have crap ton of basics from old days that I don't use anymore. Is it bad to just make a deck full of proxys to play test as long as it's not CEDH level? In my main decks and reuse a couple for cards I don't want and I don't have the money to afford to really get the deck together, but I would love to make a bunch of fun decks like tribal decks or janky decks. Sometimes I don't want to buy the same card 50 times more to keep smoking in LOL. I only play Commander casually, do you think it would be okay to do it this way
Yeah don't worry about it, if your playgroup is cool then you're good. MtG even specifies "playtest" cards are okay. I think people begin to think proxy = counterfeit and that is far from the truth. The CEDH comment is also true, there are probably more CEDH lists with Mana Crypts online than there are actual Mana Crypts in circulation.
Hello, do you have a referral to someone that makes very good looking proxy sets (Beta/Arabian Nights/Legends/Antiquities; etc?) I've been out for so long, but like the nostalgia feeling without paying the nostalgia premium lol. This would be for my personal collection only. Thank you kindly.
this is the only way i still play. except i use another site that allows me to upload custom card images so i make fancy custom proxies of cards that are newer.
Easiest way to handle those is probably to print both sides individually, sleeve them separately and just grab the backside from outside the game when it is needed.
Question. I'm new and I have decks I want to try out. I don't want to spend 1k on a deck, I also won't be playing in tournaments. Whats the issue with a proxy deck? Mind you I'm only a week into the game. Please don't bash me lol
Like even now I asked my friends that have played forever how they'd feel about me playing a proxy commander deck. Response is it isn't that expensive. Or I've got $30 decks that are good.... Like I just want to play and actually compete with the group rather than get stomped wondering if I should've spent $400 on a different deck..
@@callmeanti6985 ask them how much their decks cost and proxy a deck in that price range. They shouldn't expect you to spend hundreds of dollars to join a hobby. Your friends are wrong $30 decks are shitty.
I feel like it's bs that because you spent 1k on a deck a person like me who really only wants the social interaction has to do the same. I'd rather not play
This is exactly the type of thing I hate with proxying; low quality, difficult to read cheap proxies. If you're going to proxy, please just order legit proxies off something like MPC. I do not care how good you think your HP Deskjet 5300 or the FedEx printer is, printed off, paper proxies look like absolute shit.
@@MQ-F find another hobby, simple as. part of the game is that rare and overpowered cards are, rare! if mommy wont fork over some cash, you dont belong
@@humboldtdoomer866 the fact that it's actually crazy, they're robbing the shit out of people, to get "official cards" you have to pay extra for that? 🧐 shit can get more dumber than this too. Everyone should have access to cards, they don't have to be expensive.
