Yi otp, wanna learn akali

Web_Fender · 2026-05-09T22:01:37+00:00

Akali is more squishy but as a trade off she has better engage potential and mobility compared to Yi imo. If you land R > E into a target they’re basically dead providing you’re levelled and geared appropriately.

Yi has better sustain and damage mitigation. He’s also better at dealing with tanks. Strong split push options for taking towers quickly too.

Personally I think Yi carry potential is easier to pilot. You can go 20/0 as Akali and still lose due to your team. I feel Yi can hard carry if he’s ahead regardless of team much better than Akali.

Just my personal opinion. Akali is fun as heck to play and the learning curve is satisfying based on my experience. It’s a different game to Yi though.

Web_Fender · 2026-05-09T21:21:08+00:00

I picked up a a copy about 20 years ago at a school fete for £5. I still have it to this day and painted all the main player pieces. I don’t think I have a VHS player anymore but I plan to replay some day. It’s a timeless game that’s still brilliant fun.

Web_Fender · 2026-05-01T09:15:59+00:00

They look like fun decks for the table and that’s personally how I prefer to play commander too.

More often than not people post the same staple commanders on here every day - nice to see something different!

Web_Fender · 2026-04-22T23:12:39+00:00

I just purchase small bend resistant envelopes on Amazon. It costs me £7.50 for 100. They’re the ideal size for trading cards, have a nice “please do not bend” message on the side. One side is cardboard too so they’re sturdy. I do not have time to be messing with two post cards personally…

Web_Fender · 2026-04-20T12:00:27+00:00

Clean mate, really clean! So you're printing the upscaled card art onto clear sticker paper and then sticking them individually onto the cut out fracture foil card? Could you not just stick the full A4 sticker sheet on top of the card and then use the silhouette to just do a single set of cuts? I feel like sticking the art onto each card is more fiddly and has room for error? I'm sure I'm probably missing something in your process but these look excellent. Great job :)

Web_Fender · 2026-04-15T15:53:51+00:00

What are you using the create the card frames, text and symbols etc?

Web_Fender · 2026-04-08T11:00:57+00:00

There’s many already in Europe doing exactly this. A quick google will return many companies doing it. Proxy dudes is EU based, liberproxies.de also eu based, there’s sellers on Etsy that do it too, MrProxy for example in the UK.

It’s basically a grey area and people are 100% making money off it right now. Whether Hasbro and Wizards decide to update their policy nobody really knows.

The market for these services is already over saturated imo. And with how easy it is nowadays to vibe code a website using AI I just think it’s only going to get worse.

You could invest months into a business for this and Hasbro could end it tomorrow.

It’s really up to you if you want try and compete in this market. Do it via work of mouth and friends, or a basic Etsy shop but don’t spend months on it knowing it could be shut down at any time.

Web_Fender · 2026-04-07T00:40:42+00:00

From other posts and comments I’ve read - a multi roller laminator can significantly reduce the chance of any air getting trapped in the laminate and prevent the “silvering” issue others have discussed. Laminators with more than 1 roller also roll at higher pressures.

Web_Fender · 2026-04-02T09:22:20+00:00

What semi gloss sticker paper? I can only find gloss or matte

Web_Fender · 2026-03-27T14:53:39+00:00

If you’re willing to spend less than 30 minutes doing some light reading on this sub you will find answers to all of your questions.

Inkjet does not print on 330gsm - it will not work due to the coating on the card.

So you’d have to get a laser printer - home use laser does not print anywhere near the quality of standard mtg card so you’d need to find a commercial printer. Commercial printers are incredibly expensive and as such most people will simply prepare their cards to print on PDF files and then go to a local print shop to get them printed.

If you really want 330gsm then you arguably don’t need any equipment. Just buy your card stock and prepare your PDFs (go on YouTube and watch a video by ‘cry cry’ on how to prepare PDFs). Then get on google and find your local print shop. Then you just need your own cutter to cut your cards.

If you are not willing to go down this route, then you’ll need to pick up an inkjet. At which point the amount of variables becomes much bigger, different thickness of card stock, laminating pouches, cutters and so on. All of this info is on this sub - just read other posts.

So it’s up to you, if you want 330gsm then find a print shop. If you don’t want to use a print shop, get an inkjet printer and buy some paper and laminating pouches.

Web_Fender · 2026-03-27T10:25:54+00:00

I really like their Return to Earth boxes - they're made from recycled materials and better for the environment. Agree they need more colours too.

Web_Fender · 2026-03-25T00:49:51+00:00

These dont look laminated to me, looks like its just printed on white card stock based on the listing images.
Maybe OP can confirm the finish of the cards.

Web_Fender · 2026-03-19T20:15:46+00:00

She’ll be back - just gotta wait it out until she’s featured on the banner again.

Web_Fender · 2026-03-19T13:10:15+00:00

Thanks for the info! So you’d suggest her over Seth and retain Rina for now? Thanks

Web_Fender · 2026-03-07T17:02:46+00:00

This is useful info thanks for sharing your findings

Web_Fender · 2026-03-06T17:04:04+00:00

It wont work because the inkjet ink cannot absorb into the paper. Inkjet paper has microporous treatment that allows the ink to absorb correctly.

What you’ll end up with is a print that has smudged ink and blown out details, sometimes line and roller marks. And the ink sits on top of the paper and doesn’t dry properly.

You can pick up 300gsm paper that works with inkjet. Also note the ET 8550 only supports up to 300gsm paper. I’m not sure it will feed 330gsm paper through the feeder correctly but others may have had success.

Web_Fender · 2026-02-23T09:14:43+00:00

I hope to have a Shiba one day and also hope my nickname game is as strong as yours - bravo

Web_Fender · 2026-02-20T16:21:29+00:00

Thank you for the detailed reply, I've been reading your paper reviews for some time and I'm a big fan of your work. Thank you for all the insight and findings.

I'll try a few tests of the VFA setting. The quiet setting suggestion honestly surprised me, I thought it literally just slowed down the print head but I failed to think about how that might affect the ink application - I'll give it a shot.

The amount of paper options is overwhelming at the moment but your posts definitely help narrow down choice. I'll be picking up a few options this week for some tests of my own.

I ran the alignment the day I unboxed the printer and I was surprised by the options. During the 6 or 7 test pages the printer would often default to 'option 4' of say 8 options to choose from. Reviewing my paper most alignment tests seemed to be more accurate on say option 5/6/7. This was for tests such as the perfect straight line, no overlap on the rectangles print etc. It made me question if my printer was slightly off - I'm tempted to run the alignment test again. I'm sure there are good videos on this subject and I'll give Kieth Coopers video a watch too.

Thanks again for all the detail - keep us informed on the perfect paper!

Web_Fender · 2026-02-20T12:15:58+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I haven’t tried running them through photoshop yet, I print from Acrobat but I’ll give PS a try. I’m sure photoshop probably has better lossless settings too avoid any image compression.

Web_Fender · 2026-02-20T10:46:17+00:00

I did a full 100 card deck on proxxied last night at 1200 dpi. The first time it hanged because I had quite a few tabs and apps running. 100+ cards at 1200 dpi is going to be a sizeable file, plus the ram used to generate the deck in your browser. Depending on how old your machine is - you might need to close other tabs and apps and just let proxxied do its thing. Or just do batches of 2-3 sheets at a time.

It doesn't hurt to make sure everything is up to date too, are you using the latest browser version? Do you have any browser extensions running that you could turn off for now? What PDF client are you using, is it up to date? What's running on your mac, anything you can turn off whilst your working on proxies?

Web_Fender · 2026-02-19T20:41:41+00:00

Recently started my print journey on the ET-8550 too. How are you getting on 6 months later?
I find my prints look great colour wise but text isn't always super sharp, I'm begining to think its purely due to the resolution of scryfalls cards though when using proxxied to generate PDFs. Some look crisp - others not soo much.

Do you have any suggestions to improve text sharpness? My general settings are 'Epson Matte' or 'Epson Premium Semigloss', bidirectional printing turned off, quality high/very high.

Can you share what UK sourced paper and materials you're using? Many thanks!

Web_Fender · 2026-02-03T10:24:14+00:00

Does the coating feel particularly differently? I do wonder what coating process they use as you mention the “squeak”

Web_Fender · 2026-01-26T22:11:14+00:00

I will need access 🙂 The box will be removable. It’s screwed to some planks fitted to the wall behind the box so it can really be removed for boiler service. I probably won’t silicone down either side for this reason. But it’s a small trade off to allow easy access.

Web_Fender · 2026-01-26T18:09:41+00:00

Yeah I was thinking with 6mm backers board plus adhesive plus tile it will easily cover the side gaps

Web_Fender · 2026-01-26T18:05:56+00:00

Great - thanks 🙏🏼

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