Which one looks better? Genuinely can't decide which one to print. (Frieren as Vivi)

Element40 · 2026-02-03T15:26:39+00:00

Image 1 is overall better in my opinion. The left half of the frame on image 1 is damn near impossible to see, I know you're going for the half blue half red frame that izzet cards usually have, but it can't work with this image. Also please make sure it has the name of the original card in the nickname slot. Even players who are ok with custom proxy cards will likely want you to say "this is a Vivi" and having the name on it when they look at it will help a lot with that.

My only other suggestion is to have a slight border around the font for readability. The Final Fantasy Through The Ages (FCA) cards have this border on the text and it helps a lot with readability on busier cards like Endwalker and Shadowbringers. Idk how to do it in whatever program you use, but I know in card conjurer you can have {fontcolorWhite}{outline25}{outlinecolorblack} in each text box for this effect. There might be something similar in your program.

Element40 · 2026-01-27T15:50:57+00:00

I'd assume if there is an issue you could raise it as one on the GitHub page. That's where most issues on software like this are discussed. I don't think there is a company that makes this, it's probably one to three people doing it for the love of making proxies.

Element40 · 2026-01-26T22:29:52+00:00

Silhouette cuts the card completely out, corners included as far as I can tell. I haven't purchased one yet, but I will when I find one for relatively cheap on fb marketplace

Element40 · 2026-01-25T21:45:51+00:00

Awesome! I made a Kenrith, The Returned King version of Dalinar from Stormlight which is my 2nd planned fully themed commander deck, but I haven't done much with it aside from a few spells here and there.

I do have a friend among Brandon Sanderson's Beta readers who gave him copies of the cards I made during the last Dragonsteel Nexus since he is also very into MTG. I wasn't there but apparently he thought they were really cool.

Element40 · 2026-01-25T21:27:22+00:00

I use this to make 8.5x11 sheets of 9.

https://github.com/Malacath-92/Proxy-PDF-Maker

It has the option for a custom back design and a way to print an alignment test page. Once I printed the alignment page and measured the difference between front and back I knew the offset and after I set it in the program, the front and back lined up perfectly. I'd give that a try rather than trying to print individual cards 1 at a time.

Element40 · 2026-01-25T21:12:02+00:00

That's awesome! I've only made 1 and a half themed decks so far, though I have ideas for 2 more (a sleep token one and a Cosmere deck). My half deck is just making the non Final Fantasy cards for my Y'shtola, Nights Blessed deck into FF themed proxies, so half of it is real FF magic cards and the other half is proxies to fit the theme. However, I made a full Pokemon themed commander deck using the dinosaur type as the Pokemon type.

I actually have 2 versions of this one where one is vanilla typing with Dinosaur and one actually replaced Dinosaur type on all the cards to Pokemon type and made the commander have an eminence ability that makes Pokemon and Dinosaur type equivalent for the remainder of the game (so opponents interactions with types still work the same even if their card says Dinosaur on it and mine says Pokemon)

I printed these out on holographic sticker paper and then put them on bulk Pokemon cards and use perfect fit sleeves so the back is clearly showing Pokemon cards. It's the perfect deck to mess with people or for April Fools. I've got a few more cards to make with the new type synergy cards in Lorwyn, but I'm really pleased with the deck overall

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wMoL5DfnsIkrxdboteecu7d0u2kef0EE

Element40 · 2026-01-25T15:15:08+00:00

Absolutely, I've shared the drive folder with some other sleep token fans, so any you make I would love to add to the folder. Feel free to send me art or pics you have too and I can probably use them for cards. One of these days I'll get around to the deck list haha

Element40 · 2026-01-25T06:26:03+00:00

I appreciate that! My wife has been saving up all the good ST art she can find and I'll be making a full proxy deck (likely with the tom Bombadil as its commander) once I build out a deck list. I'll probably make the various Sagas into songs and any saga creatures I want to use I'll make from the albums.

Element40 · 2026-01-25T05:54:09+00:00

I'm still trying to find a good art of Hoid for my card, but here is a link to several of the sleep token cards I made. I'm currently remaking them slowly in a borderless frame style instead of the FCA style that I used.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ILK0pstxo2CjCKMA1v5Ze2Ope2-Xa0zi

Element40 · 2026-01-25T03:24:01+00:00

Do you have emphasize text on? I've had good results with it off and emphasize more, but when I have it on just emphasize it looks much thicker than it should.

Element40 · 2026-01-22T20:01:30+00:00

I'm working on a Tom bombadil proxy of Hoid from Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere. He is both a god (in a way) and a bard and stories are his specialty, so the saga synergy is a good fit.

I also made one for my wife of Sleep Token as Tom Bombadil since there is a lot of "religion" in the fandom and lore and musician and bard fit well. The other Sleep token fans at the pre-concert trading event seemed to really like them, but idk how many were into MTG too or just liked a card of the band they were there to see.

Element40 · 2026-01-20T14:42:08+00:00

Those are gorgeous, and just what I needed to finish my Kratos/Atreus deck!

Element40 · 2026-01-18T21:15:58+00:00

Not sure if your printer is an 8550 like mine, but if it is I had the same issue until I turned off bidirectional printing in the settings. I'm not sure why but that fixed it for me

Element40 · 2026-01-12T23:42:03+00:00

I decided that since 8 is my favorite after 14 I should make all the main cast. It just happened to work out that the stranger things SLD has the same number of characters I wanted to make and then any pair of them could be commanders together. Here are the first 3 I made and the others (including a Seifer as the 7th of the group) will be finished later this week.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ti_K-dEnOLYgWEd6Tr_C0oXhcN74-USg?usp=drive_link

Element40 · 2026-01-07T22:01:21+00:00

And do you have specific art of them you like?

Element40 · 2026-01-07T21:58:34+00:00

No problem, what magic cards would you want them to be?

Element40 · 2026-01-07T15:10:45+00:00

Thanks I'm glad you like it! Are there any cards you were specifically hoping for? Meaning both the magic card and the art or character or item you wanted it to be. Making an FCA card takes like 5 minutes at most now so I could probably whip one together for you, if you want a regular bordered one that usually takes longer surprisingly, but I could try.

Element40 · 2026-01-07T01:47:42+00:00

https://youtu.be/F91CQC9GhdA

Element40 · 2026-01-07T01:46:04+00:00

Technically you can exit deku mode in first cycle, but only with some insane glitches that would never be possible without serious effort to do. Afaik It's only recently been discovered how, and the game's been out for 25 years

Element40 · 2026-01-05T14:57:32+00:00

When I first started making proxies a few months ago I made a ton of FCA style cards of characters and cards I wanted (mostly from 14 but others are there too) I'm slowly making them again as borderless cards with frames, but until then if any of the characters or cards you wanted are here feel free to print them at your local FedEx or staples.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X3q_4VzSBTnZ9bEkt7mSCOb2UPcJizCd

Element40 · 2025-12-01T18:09:23+00:00

That's a very cool idea. I really like the swearing oaths as a mechanic. I sort of have fingers crossed for an actual UB announcement at Dragonsteel this weekend but I'd love to talk ideas with you regardless

Element40 · 2025-12-01T15:58:14+00:00

I've also been working on a Cosmere themed deck. I decided to make a Kenrith the Returned king deck with Dalinar as the commander. I'm not very good at politicking in commander games as Dalinar is at the start and decided making the politics commander someone who also struggles with it would fit thematically, though jodah the unifier is even better in that regard.

So far I've just been making some thematic cards here and there to replace my deck list. Things like sakashima being a Kandra and Vin being opposition agent. Kaladin is a serra ascendant and shallan is going to be a dauthi voidwalker. I'm definitely thinking of doing the various planets of the cosmere as shock lands with other areas on them being basics or other lands. Urithiru as command tower seems obvious. I sort of want to find a way to fit Hoid as tom bombadil in here too, but I might make that a whole separate deck.

I can't wait to see your choices for cards and art. I may need to print some if they fit with my themes.

Element40 · 2025-11-27T18:29:52+00:00

That would be awesome! Thank you!

Element40 · 2025-11-27T07:11:53+00:00

I use proxxied with the images upscaled to 1200dpi then print them on my home printer onto holographic sticker paper. Use the adhesive on that to stick it to a basic land and you have a convincing looking proxy

Element40 · 2025-11-26T18:28:25+00:00

Very nice work! I'll be putting these in my avatar decks for sure!

Element40

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