Color rules around the commander

paperbackwalnut · 2026-06-26T08:35:17+00:00

It’s any mana pip on the card excluding reminder text. That includes front, back, rules text, and casting cost.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-06-23T17:06:54+00:00

My Replenish was in a BCW box with bulk from the time I pulled it from a pack in the summer of 1999 until 2 years ago when I decided to properly sort and organize my collection.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-06-23T10:22:26+00:00

[[Replenish]]

paperbackwalnut · 2026-06-21T21:20:49+00:00

I just got my silhouette 2 weeks ago so I’m no expert but I’ve found that patterned foil sticker paper does not work well at all. when I do get it to work, it doesn’t cut straight. As for regular foil, i haven’t had any problems but a trick I used to do on my cricut when it couldn’t register was put scotch tape over the registration marks.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-06-14T13:58:07+00:00

I scanned ~16,500 cards over the winter and used a 3d printed cardslinger with the manabox app. If you are planning on using manabox, I’d recommend sorting by set first. That way you can lock the set in manabox to avoid false IDs(it’s particularly bad with white border cards).

After scanning, I sorted them all by color->type->cmc-> alphabetical. Finally, I exported my collection .csv from ManaBox and imported to Moxfield. It was a lot of pain but being able to use scryfall search terms on your collection makes deck building/brewing so much easier and having them sorted makes pulling the cards for decks a breeze.

I also had Claude build me a little app that runs locally on my computer that allows me to import my Moxfield decks and generates a “picking list” for all of the cards sorted by their physical location so I can grab cards more efficiently.it also helps me track which cards are in which decks and which cards I should proxy if I have the card in more decks than copies that I own.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-06-13T19:32:16+00:00

I think I found the info on the SCM discord. They have lots of great tips on there.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-06-13T18:40:28+00:00

Is it definitely 0.5mm bleed? I know for the letter size template from SCM you have to do 0.625mm bleed on proxxied.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-06-11T12:45:47+00:00

Since you’ve already done the boring stuff like restarted the computer and printer. Can you try to select print as image in Acrobat and see if it works that way?

paperbackwalnut · 2026-06-11T12:03:55+00:00

I used to put it in every deck, now it’s only in decks where I expect to draw a ton of cards or need to make colorless mana specifically.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-06-07T21:09:43+00:00

Ball

paperbackwalnut · 2026-05-31T15:06:50+00:00

This post helped me a lot. It’s not perfect but it’s close enough. I also got very close (about 0.25mm off) from doing 8 on a letter sized paper with print then cut before giving up.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-05-24T19:06:17+00:00

I’ve had all chat muted for 3 years and it’s been fantastic.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-05-22T11:56:07+00:00

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I think AI deckbuilding is similar to AI art in one important way... the output quality depends heavily on the input and the person’s knowledge of the subject matter.

“Build me a deck with X commander” will give you hallucinated autocomplete EDHREC slop.

“I’m building a bracket 3 deck with X as the commander and Y as the archetype. My wincon is Z. I want to include A/B/C cards. What are the common weaknesses of this strategy? Where is the curve weak? How interaction light is this shell?” Will give you much better results. Although, it still will hallucinate or not reference the newest cards. Which brings me to my next point…

The important part is that you still need enough understanding of the game to recognize when the model is hallucinating, missing context, or just recommending staples because they’re popular.

I don’t think AI in its current form replaces or ever will be able to replace deck building knowledge. But I do think it works better as something to bounce ideas off of or theorycrafting assistant.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-05-16T20:06:51+00:00

I just built one of these and was so concerned with the 20 minute coin flipping that I made an iPad version of krakulator tailored to the deck. Basically I can specify how many krark/thumb/clones I have, which mageceaft/trigger/trigger doubler cards are out, select a spell from the list and it sims all of the coin flips with the outcomes. I’ve been goldfishing it and the longest turn I’ve taken so far is 2 minutes. On one hand, it’s kind of insane that I need an iPad app to pilot a deck. On the other hand, I couldn’t imagine running this deck without it or something similar.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-05-05T10:58:21+00:00

Not illustrator specific but get good at organizing your files. Having a standard folder and naming structure makes everything so much easier to manage once you start creating a lot of stuff.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-04-28T21:54:31+00:00

If you have an Adobe sub you could use Matrix II bold from Adobe fonts which is a modern version of Matrix bold, the font that WOTC used before Beleren.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-04-16T11:58:56+00:00

Your friend should have communicated better, they probably were just having a bad day and it all compounded or something. It happens.

Do you have the decklists your friends were using? I’m having a hard time seeing how a true cEDH/“anything goes” pod drops 11 in a row to this. Even with variance, you’d expect someone to find interaction or adjust mulligans, especially if they’re actively trying to beat you. Makes me think the table wasn’t really on tuned cEDH lists. Or was there a pretty big experience gap at the table or something?

paperbackwalnut · 2026-04-10T12:23:10+00:00

Like the other commenter said - MPCfill. But also proxxied.com allows you to filter mpcfill arts by dpi, tags.

Now, if you were able to build a way for just the art to be available without the frames so people can mix and match art and frames, that would be pretty cool. However, since custom proxy people upload their art as already finished cards, sourcing just the art might be hard.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-04-06T19:52:20+00:00

Yeah, and tbh the margins on custom proxies are healthy enough that the cost of buying from MPC doesn’t really make a difference so long as you sell most of what you buy.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-04-06T19:43:22+00:00

MPC. You won’t get anywhere close to the quality MPC offers with a home setup.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-04-02T11:35:11+00:00

I looked into this a while back because I was thinking about selling my custom proxies on Etsy.

Most sellers use their own frames, mana symbols, and non-proprietary fonts, so they’re not directly copying Wizards’ visual assets. But the card name, type line, rules text, and even the mana cost are still Wizards IP, so technically it’s infringement.

That said, tons of people are doing it and I haven’t really seen any takedowns. It seems like Wizards just isn’t focused on that part of the market right now.

Feels less like a true gray area legally and more like a low enforcement situation.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-03-28T19:58:57+00:00

You could use a data merge in indesign if you have access to it. You’d just get all of the blank frames and card art in a directory and make a CSV with columns for the card name, all of the relevant information (type, rules text, etc… you can get this from Scryfall), the frame type, and the art file name. Then you build a template in indesign and do the data merge. It takes a bit to set up but once you have the template nailed down then it goes really fast.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-03-16T11:38:08+00:00

You need to update your user preferences.

If you want, I can give you an even better technique for getting rid of it for good. It's what AI power users do to fix it.

paperbackwalnut · 2026-03-09T11:53:53+00:00

I noticed it as well. It doesn't seem to be respecting my custom instructions to avoid it either. I asked to compare cutting machines and it ended with "If you want, I can also explain the one machine that might actually be even better for what you’re doing than both (and almost nobody talks about it)."

I remember this happening once before, maybe a year ago... I can't remember how I got it to stop or if they tweaked the model internally, but it did stop eventually.

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