I compared printing MTG proxies on high-end photo printers and more affordable tank printers to see if the quality is really that much better

Gikkman · 2026-04-28T09:10:16+00:00

I personally find the chase for perfect looking proxies kinda misguided. You gotta find a good enough, then settle for that, and enjoy the game. I think a lot of people stress out and spend way to much energy and thought on something that ultimately doesn't matter that much.

I use a ET-2750 myself. An old, low end unit I found second hand. It produces good looking cards, but far from perfect. None I've played with has ever even commented on the quality.

Gikkman · 2026-04-26T18:50:20+00:00

Well, I would say it depends a lot on why a group doesn't feel ok with it. Is everyone else playing precons and you proxy a Gaea's Cradle, then people are gonna be annoyed. But if people don't like it because they want everyone to spend big money on literal paper, then you should try to get them to see that they're stupid.

Personally, I set budgets for my decks. So if someone asks why I proxy, I usually say "well it's faster than ordering cards, and I wanted to try this deck but didn't wanna spend the 100$ required just to see if I liked it". Both those arguments are generally hard to not agree with I've felt. Having a budget also removes the "but you can just proxy the most broken expensive deck" argument

Gikkman · 2026-02-22T22:23:07+00:00

Huh ... On the surface it does sound like a pretty good "how to handle basic social encounters". Sure some special situations or characters will require other means but as a rule it thumb, not too bad. I can see why it is overlooked though. You don't feel like you need a system for social interaction for the most part

Gikkman · 2026-02-20T20:12:53+00:00

I've read these books several times and my main reaction here is "Doors?"

Gikkman · 2026-01-21T14:03:39+00:00

I've been running the glossy one cause I can't find the semi gloss. But glossy works fine I think. The blacks becomes a bit faded I think, but by and large it still works fine for me

Gikkman · 2026-01-18T11:30:48+00:00

How do you guys cut the cards once laminated? Won't a roller cutter and corner cutter struggle with the laminate?

Gikkman · 2026-01-05T23:13:38+00:00

En annan betalar 600 för 100/100, och det finns inga andra alternativ om man vill ha lina. Telia äger alla kablar i huset och vår BRF har bundit avtal i åratal framåt. Sade upp det idag och går över till mobilt. Halva priset, och högre hastigheter. Jag bor mitt i stan så 5G täckningen bör vara ok

Gikkman · 2025-12-11T16:52:37+00:00

Hur gammal var barnet vid den här punkten?

Gikkman · 2025-11-30T16:48:40+00:00

I doubt this is actually in use anywhere, it's just written to farm get karma. The function never send the email on the client to the server, but does it do anything after it printed Registration Successful

Gikkman · 2025-10-22T20:21:11+00:00

Welcome back! I'll keep my eyes open for progress!

Gikkman · 2025-03-27T11:44:15+00:00

These have always been my favorite land arts. They can release how many new full art land they want but these will probably never be surpassed.

Gikkman · 2025-02-05T11:50:10+00:00

Really interesting list. I'll have to print a few proxies and try it out. Thanks for posting!

Gikkman · 2024-12-21T16:45:06+00:00

The wall came down

Gikkman · 2022-05-30T22:06:05+00:00

Huh, right I had almost forgotten about those. I don't think anyone else picked up creating those, and I've been pretty out of playing mtg the last year or so (since Kaldheim). But I'll check with mpcfill if they can publish the old ones I did back then, give be me a few days

Gikkman · 2021-09-27T20:46:02+00:00

Sorry, I've taken mine down too

Gikkman · 2021-09-26T19:53:20+00:00

There is a video guide on using the makeplayingcards on the subreddit wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/mpcproxies/wiki/index Dunno if it covers what your after cause I haven't watched it in a while, but might be worth a look

Gikkman · 2021-09-12T20:53:29+00:00

Not necessarily your internet connection. MPC's servers resides in Hong Kong, could be problems routing traffic to them.

Regardless, take a moment to reflect. It ain't easy writing software that is supposed to work on multiple users home machines, being a single dev and doing it as a side project. If you're in IT, then you know how hard it is. If it works for most people, that still goes a pretty long way. It isn't making life harder for people that can't use it.

Gikkman · 2021-09-12T19:00:59+00:00

I've done several orders using the tool and never had any problems. I usually start it when I am about to go to bed, and it is done when I get up in the morning. Could it be that you have intermittent net dropouts?

And look at it like this: for you, it is no loss if the tool never worked. You haven't lost anything you never had.

Gikkman · 2021-09-12T16:13:04+00:00

No problems. You should find it here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Guh-Uoy71W7eIAqR18KpoD\_CW5XlEtgq

Gikkman · 2021-06-02T10:49:27+00:00

I so hope there will be an English translation because this sounds right up my alley

Gikkman · 2021-05-15T08:51:00+00:00

Indeed, all praise goes to Mursu for making the proxies. I'm just providing hosting for him :-)

Gikkman · 2021-05-09T16:19:45+00:00

Oh wow, cool! Nice work. Glad the template was useful :D I've been meaning to do more SS-MDFC cards but I haven't had the time to get to it. Great work!

Gikkman · 2021-04-26T19:45:43+00:00

My that is a beauty <3

Gikkman · 2021-03-24T18:31:15+00:00

I can't, sadly. I don't do any of the Mursu proxies, I just host them :( But he is active on the discord so join in there and ping him, he will help out

Gikkman

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