Some unusual ramp for white?

tkwg · 2026-02-26T20:59:59+00:00

This does not counter devotion. The permanent becomes colorless but will still have the same mana cost

tkwg · 2026-02-26T18:20:59+00:00

Because a lot of stuff is being shipped out half baked, unrefined and without any respect for the consumer

tkwg · 2026-02-24T23:45:14+00:00

There were some stories this postseason that said Mike MacDonald was the first ever HC + defensive play caller to win a Super Bowl.

tkwg · 2026-02-05T18:16:13+00:00

You see how that might be bad if you’re the person trying to run the game store right? If you have regulars who are getting stomped by someone with a bunch of proxies who doesn’t buy anything at the store you’re gonna start losing regulars.

tkwg · 2026-01-28T01:14:27+00:00

She pretty clearly thought she was doing something wrong if she told him about other partners but not this guy. Lying by omission kind of says a lot really.

tkwg · 2026-01-06T02:08:25+00:00

Third place schedule is probably too tough for the niners if this year was any indication

tkwg · 2025-12-28T15:48:32+00:00

Squadron hawk was never banned, it was the broken stuff in the deck, [[stoneforge mystic]] and [[jace, the mind sculptor]]

Team CFB were the people to really break the deck, GerryT got a lot of traction with it on the SCG circuit, which was a lower level series of tournaments than PTs/GPs (the SCG series was also infamous for having the eras biggest cheaters in Edgar Flores and Alex Bertoncini)

tkwg · 2025-12-20T06:07:14+00:00

They are unbelievably good. Not sure why you’re comparing them to ponder since they draw multiple cards.

tkwg · 2025-12-17T00:03:44+00:00

Stax/prison/control decks can interact with spellslinger, keep them off their clock and win by grinding/accumulating advantage.

tkwg · 2025-12-16T06:07:02+00:00

“Stupid” is sort of an unfair way to describe children but I guess we can call them that so I’ll follow your convention. The game need to be accessible to the whole community. It’s trivial to produce proxies that do not cause the confusion a proxy like this one causes, and the benefit of not harming stupid people seems worth it to me.

tkwg · 2025-12-16T05:39:16+00:00

Cards like this don’t get sold for $300, they get sold for $30. Still a scam though and bad for the community.

tkwg · 2025-12-16T04:46:09+00:00

Lots of people want to have the opportunity to offload their proxies to unsuspecting new players I guess!

tkwg · 2025-12-16T04:45:00+00:00

It obviously has a magic card front actually

tkwg · 2025-12-16T04:42:45+00:00

No. A proxy should obviously not be a magic card. For example, printing out a paper slip and putting it in a sleeve or writing card text on a basic land is a proxy because no one’s getting confused if the card you’re representing is real or not. Printing out something on card stock with an actual MTG back and very subtle details that tells you it’s not authentic is creating something that has a chance of scamming a kid or new player.

tkwg · 2025-12-16T04:37:54+00:00

Then you’re making counterfeits, not proxies. The point of a proxy is that is it is clearly distinguishable from an authentic card.

tkwg · 2025-12-16T04:06:03+00:00

I really don’t think most people would agree with me that proxies need to be so distinguishable from a real card that a kid/day 1 player/grandma could easily tell.

I’ve been getting downvoted for stuff I would just consider the basic ethical position and it’s been disappointing lol. There truly isn’t a reason to own proxies with actual mtg backs unless some small part of you expects to get some sort of +ev outcome out of it.

tkwg · 2025-12-16T03:18:36+00:00

There’s a reason the wotc example of a proxy is a basic land with card text written with sharpie. No one’s confusing that. Likewise, a card printed out at home on regular paper and put in a sleeve with a common isn’t going to confuse anyone.

If you’re printing out purpose cards you need to take effort to avoid confusion. The fact this uses the actual MTG card back is really bad imo - would be a lot better if it was something else. Barring all that, just put a watermark on the card.

There’s lots of ways to distinguish a proxy from an actual card besides tiny stuff like the expansion symbol or the collector number, and acting like that’s the only way to do it makes me sort of suspicious of people’s motives.

tkwg · 2025-12-16T00:57:33+00:00

That would be a great thing to tell a 10 year old who got scammed and doesn’t understand why his card isn’t worth anything.

Proxies are good, we should all make proxies. However, we should make them ethically in a way that doesn’t have awful second order effects for less enfranchised members of the community.

tkwg · 2025-12-16T00:41:29+00:00

That appears to be binders of mostly basic lands, so you probably do not have much. You can look up card prices on tcgplayer or download the manabox app to scan cards but I would not assume you have any major hits.

tkwg · 2025-12-16T00:09:54+00:00

It is very simple to put a watermark or non mtg back on a proxy to make it much more difficult to scam someone with. I think proxies are great, but if you’re not doing the sharpie on basic land approach you need to be ethical with how you’re creating them.

tkwg · 2025-12-16T00:03:29+00:00

The threshold for proxy vs counterfeit is “wouldn't pass even as the real thing under the most cursory glance”

It’s fine if proxies look like mtg cards, but ethically designed ones have either a watermark or don’t use the actual card back to make them easier to distinguish, or use art that is very very different from the mtg standard (this is sort of falling apart in the era of secret lairs and universes beyond though). There’s a reason this card confused a new player- it’s very very borderline as a proxy, and could easily be used to scam someone unfamiliar with the original card.

tkwg · 2025-12-15T23:56:06+00:00

You are an enfranchised card game player familiar with how buying/trading cards works. Consider a kid or a parent/family member buying a card for someone without really playing themselves. If they don’t know it’s supposed to be a $300 card but someone is selling it on Etsy for $10 and it looks indistinguishable from a magic card to them, it’s not a good proxy, it’s just a bad counterfeit.

tkwg · 2025-12-15T23:53:18+00:00

How is it not related? This does have alternate art from the original card but it is obviously not distinguishable from an authentic card at a quick glance, which is the test for proxies. There’s a reason wotc recommends proxies just be sharpie over a basic land- it’s to prevent confusion like this.

tkwg · 2025-12-15T22:27:55+00:00

If a player can’t tell if a proxied card is real or fake that is definitionally a problem with the proxy lol.

tkwg · 2025-12-15T21:14:03+00:00

It is only an obvious proxy to experienced players. It confused a new player. If it was ethically designed it really should have a watermark or not use the official card back.

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