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?
I’ve seen using mpcfill.com to make your list of desired cards, and then using the built in export over to makeplayingcards.com.
About proxy legality, outside of sanctioned events even Wizards is cool with proxies (they refer to them as playtest cards, not to be confused with actual playtest cards created during development) existing, so long as they are different enough from real cards they can’t be considered fakes (typically done with either a different backing or adding some text to the bottom) and retailers don’t make products for sale using the copyright symbols (colors, tap/untap) without permission.