#magic proxy card

[gregor-never-leaves-the-house]

Another proxy made with just toys. The child allowed it even. Ragavan is one of those cards I wouldn't play myself because it's just too effective. But you have to admit a monkey pirate is great.

[lmigi]

Oathkeeper and Oblivion [Kingdom Hearts - Party Time]

Artist Credit: Kagachi_118 & Shiyu-artpainting

My friends and I prefer to play Commander using pre-con decks, as that way the less invested of us don't have to contend with those of us that have enough time in our days and motivation to spend crafting bonkers decks.

My personal favorite pre-con is entitled "Party Time", centering around the idea of having a "full party" on your team. As my favorite pre-con, I decided to customize the entire deck by making proxies of each card as a Kingdom Hearts themed deck. I was surprised to have found so many perfect matches for KH characters/ideas and the cards in this deck.

First up, we have the Commander, "Roxas, the Key" as a proxy of "Nalia de'Arnise". Admittedly, this proxy probably had the least association with its base card, but his presence as Nalia will make sense with further posts of these cards.

Second up is "Sora, Chosen by the Keyblade", a proxy of "Jazal Goldmane", which is a very clever reference to Sora's concept art as a sort of lion-boy. His ability to buff all creatures based on how many are attacking with him really exemplifies his "my friends are my power" mantra throughout the games.

Note: you'll notice that for this deck I opted to not use the "Legend Crown" frame around the names of Legendary creatures, this was intentional so as to maintain a cohesive aesthetic between all creatures, legendary and non-legendary alike, as even the non-legendary creatures will be represented with singular KH characters.

[whiteweddingparttwo]

@punkitt-is-here said they were playing Magic The Gathering, and that inspired me to make this custom token for the Witness Protection card!

[pride-knightess]

They did my girl Freya dirty, so I gave her the glowup she deserves.

It mimics the style of the other full art cards in the Final Fantasy set!

Art by the excellent Horace Hsu

[sohkrates]

Punk Magic

I like Magic the Gathering. I started playing in high school, as a sort of replacement effect for my love of Pokémon cards ('cause those were for kids and when you're a teenager there is nothing worse than being perceived as being younger). I was not great at it. I loved the slow, ponderous flyers in blue mana, specifically drakes, which were pretty much always outclassed. I sucked at deckbuilding but it was still a fun thing to do with friends.

Then several years passed and I never touched those cards. Then the commander format became a thing and all my friends were playing and I've pretty much been at it ever since.

But in the last few years while I enjoy Magic I have become, at best, unimpressed by the company that produces it. There's a lot of reasons for this and I'm not here to go into them in detail, but I find myself reaching for cards and game modes that are, frankly, beyond my ability to afford. I think large parts of this game are beyond most fans' financial means. Magic Arena is an absolute joke, limited printing of format staples mean you can't keep up without significant investment, and different booster packs and limited packs like secret lair make this game feel more like a video game full of randomly seeded lootboxes than something printed on cardboard that the company actually controls.

But I said I wasn't gonna get into all that. Instead I want to talk about how I've been enjoying Magic the Gathering recently:

It's a new format I'm calling Punk Magic.

Punk Magic is all about using up those cards in your collection you are never going to touch. The ones that lay in white cardboard rows and old deck boxes. The ones that you love but never make their way into your commander decks. The cards that are just one more power or toughness away from being playable, from resembling the all-stars that you see across different formats.

Punk Magic is full of single player mini games: betting on mana racing against other punks, competing in junk fights in improvised arenas against booster packs of random cards, and going head-to-head against the Wizards of the Citadel, those vile wealthy mages who rule all the lands around you and charge you bonkers rent for the privilege.

Each mini game awards you coins you can spend on zining spells: taking parts of Magic cards and pasting them onto other cards for powerful spells, as well as unlocking special abilities to augment your chances at success, and even making custom spells that break the Laws of Spellmaking.

Punk magic is also a multiplayer format. Build a cube you can draft with friends, and let them change, destroy, and add cards so the cube is always evolving. All you need is some scissors and glue, and some markers to let you and all your friends become adept spellmakers.

Want to play commander too? No worries. Make a deck then zine a spell to represent your commander and play in free for all or head-to-head.

Worried your zined spells will be too powerful? So too are the Wizards of the Citadel, who stick wanted levels on powerful cards, banishing them to the citadel jail until you decide to free them, or break them down into parts that can live on with other spells.

My own cube has evolved in many ways through testing. There's the tried and true archetypes like cats, elves, and red/green ramp, but also oddities like lizard/wurm tribal and black deck wins. It's messy and unbalanced and represents my time spent in this hobby and will reflect the tastes and art of my friends and I couldn't be happier with it.

And now the rules are free for everyone to enjoy.

So what kind of magic will you make, punk?

[riftdancing]

My FC leader (Rex) has us all contemplating our latest financial decisions. Cardboard should not be so expensive. Help. I fell asleep last night and dreamt about magic cards. I DON'T EVEN GO HERE OKAY?!

...He's going to make sure I know how to play this game in the next year. The worst part? I'm not entirely unwilling. Still... I made full art magic cards last night of some members from our RP group. What is happening to me?

Anyways. These are dope and I really wanted to share.

Blink, Siyoh, and Mihli are all my characters. Koret belongs to @gatheredfates Rex belongs to ...Rex. He doesn't do social media. ♥

Excluding Koret's cards, all screenshots were taken and edited by me (Koret's were taken by Sea). Templates for the cards were created from scratch by me using an assortment of tools.

[affinityforanime]

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 Once you thaw out that turkey, do you prefer roast or deep fry? 🍗 And then pumpkin pie for dessert!

[thepaintedsable]

More Alts!!! For my Magic: The Gathering "Rat Bomb" deck!

Couple of lands, and a few other things here and there. None of these have been thumbnailed or preplanned, so not all of them are homeruns. I do like how sunken hollow turned out, though, and I really enjoyed drawing all of the swamps. :) The main trouble was the color scheming to make sure the mana cost kinda matched the overall color theme of the card.

[actual-haise]

Since Yugiri didn't get a card in the FF set I just decided to make a proxy of Yuriko for her since I wanted to test that deck anyway

Tried to emulate the borderless full arts for the set since I wanted to use official art SHE'S SO PRETTY

[autumnscottageshop]

I couldn't help myself and made a Neko Atsume redesign of Cat Collector ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

[mckitterick]

DIY Pog idea

make fun use of those old cards cluttering up the house!

(DISCLAIMER: don't try this at home)

[lmigi]

Descend Below Hyrule Castle & The Triforce [Zelda Proxy Project]

Artist Credit: Laenarra

Here we have two more support cards for my wife's all-proxy Zelda-themed Commander Deck:

Descend Below Hyrule Castle is yet another mana ramp card, but this one references the discovery of Ganon under Hyrule Castle.

The Triforce is a obviously a three-mode instant, depicting the wielder of it in Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, Princess Zelda herself.

[dune-the-spicening]

The Banana tokens for my Kibo deck

[dualbasilisk]

Edgar Markov as Marceline the Vampire Queen! The art is the Marceline and the Scream Queens cover 1E by Colleen Coover

[gregor-never-leaves-the-house]

It only took 4 different decks, about 8 losses, milling my entire library (except for two cards) and returning every creature to the battlefield, but I did it. Princess Twilight Sparkle made everypony win.

AND THEN I FORGOT TO PUT THE PONY ROBOT TOGETHER ARRRGGGHH

[necromanticalscience]

Okay so I did googling about mtg decks for Locked Tomb but most I saw were a deck for a specific character.

But I found a good partner commander combo, that has mostly correct subtypes and whos mechanics represent the lyctor body-defending-itself-in-the-river thing pretty well I think:

Tormod, the Desecrator for Harrowhark

and Ghost of Remirez DePierto as Gideon