I enjoy Magic the Gathering, but I hate that it’s leashed with copyright and patent stuff, and basically pay to win with Wizard’s bogus artificial scarcity. You take a look at classics like Chess - no one owns Chess, it’s public domain. Consequently we get a continuous stream of gameplay variants, as well as all manner of Chess sets with virtually any feature and style of art you can think of.

But I realized that even though proxies are kind of a gray area, that doesn’t mean I have to treat them like they have less value than “official” cards. What if there are proxies with truly inspired design and artwork, for example? If people are putting their time and heart into these, why not boost that?

Does anyone here know of any great MTG proxies?

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So this is something I’m kind of versed in. For starters, there are a ton of places to get cards printed with the same look and feel of mtg. printingproxies.com was my go to when I still actively played. They let you do custom cards and also let you do altered backs which I use to make double face tokens.

    If you’re looking to get into tourney on them, there’s a few Chinese counterfitters that operate out r/bootlegmtg last I checked. They have some pretty advanced techniques and can even clone the little foil badges. Last I looked, the only genuine tell is that they have black core instead of blue so they’re darker if you shine a light through them.

    As far as the fun, I actually used to run a custom commanders game in my local circle that was very popular. You make your own commander and your other players vet them. This has turned into a combination mtg/RPG where we have character sheets that define what card can be our commander in the card game and then the spells in the deck are our spells in the RPG.