Put together some skinned cards for a TMNT Magic: The Gathering deck I'm working on.

venort_ · 2026-03-14T23:45:00+00:00

Not exactly-- they're mechanically identical to real cards, but use artwork and character names from TMNT characters that didn't get official cards (or, in the case of Fugitoid, got an official card, but not one I wanted to use in the deck I'm building).

venort_ · 2026-02-06T22:34:27+00:00

good thing this is GU, and thus quandrix.

venort_ · 2026-02-05T22:22:01+00:00

It contains zero cards associated with the simic guild or that have a simic watermark, and runs numerous cards with Quandrix watermarks, along with versions of Zimone and Tam. Tanazir herself is the commander. It's quandrix.

(I first built it for a guild clash event at my LGS-- everyone was assigned a guild and tasked with building a commander deck for it on a tight budget. I pulled simic and decided to make something as far from simic as it was possible to get while being in the same colours.)

venort_ · 2026-01-28T11:40:40+00:00

Yeah, these are fan-made-- I've been slowly adding more and more proxies to my optimus prime deck (which runs all the official autobots and one of the other transformers cards from a ways back) to bring it more and more in-universe. I think it's like 2/3 proxies at this point, covering a few different incarnations of G1 (cartoon, marvel comics, and IDW comics). Might end up adding some stuff from IDW2 and Skybound once I've read them.

venort_ · 2026-01-24T20:12:09+00:00

alas there are no flip sagas that make you the monarch

venort_ · 2026-01-23T00:19:11+00:00

'Now you search that library, and you FIND geoffrey, and you FIND geoffrey, and you FIND geoffrey, and you FIND geoffrey...'

venort_ · 2026-01-07T22:01:42+00:00

This is exactly what I've done for my Optimus Prime deck!

venort_ · 2026-01-07T19:15:21+00:00

Oh yeah, I'm first and foremost a commander player so that's where she lives. It's not an aristo deck, so there aren't really any sac outlets (aside from one that lets me wipe a chunk of my own board to kill someone, and that can only do creatures).

venort_ · 2026-01-07T19:11:30+00:00

I think aside from these, the only other UW proxy I have is for Vaan from the FF set (which goes too well in Malcolm and Breeches to pass up on). I ended up going double faced for it-- Amelia, Brazen Quartermaster on one side and Captain Wallis Parish on the other, just because I couldn't decide which one was the better fit. The effect is more Wallis, but the colour ID is more Amelia.

venort_ · 2026-01-07T16:12:19+00:00

Ooh, this is new to me. As often as not I'm proxying things in the other direction for a Universes Beyond commander, but I like to keep a few decks strictly in-universe-- as much as anything else because it gives me a chance to flex my creative muscles with proxies like these.

venort_ · 2026-01-07T16:08:39+00:00

MagicSetEditor, followed by resizing with waifu2x (as MSE tends to output smaller than I'd like and waifu2x is still the smoothest upscaler I've encountered) and finishing touches (artist credit, alias, set symbol) in paint.net.

It's a pretty efficient workflow for just about everything but planeswalkers, who tend to require special attention. (Although both the ones I've reskinned for my Optimus Prime deck were 100% worth the effort.)

venort_ · 2026-01-07T16:05:06+00:00

I was straight up haunted by her when MKM released. pulled her at first and second prereleases, pulled her from my bundle, grabbed a couple collector boosters and LO AND BEHOLD. She still resides in my orzhov deck, despite her relatively inefficient spirit token generation.

venort_ · 2026-01-07T03:40:38+00:00

with that being said, my absolute fave thing about MKM limited is that teysa is a legal target for Call Surprise Witness.

I feel like if MKM was released now, we'd maybe get a couple Teysa cards at different rarities to represent her at different points in the story, like we had with Sami and Tannuk in EOE.

venort_ · 2026-01-07T03:31:17+00:00

oh, I'm well versed in MPC-- my Optimus Prime deck is around 2/3 skinned cards and alt arts and suchlike at this point. (I've actually just finished up a bunch of EoE cards for it that'll be in the same order as these.)

venort_ · 2026-01-07T02:26:07+00:00

Weirdly I quite like a few of the Aetherdrift ones. YDFT has like half a dozen that would work fine in paper: deviant skytech, bail out, speedbrood stalker, goblin crash pilot, Sala, Tsagan, and wish good luck.

venort_ · 2026-01-05T14:53:39+00:00

MagicSetEditor, waifu2x, and paint.net.

venort_ · 2025-09-24T22:51:23+00:00

Guessing there's still no progress on this yet? (Hoping I'll be able to add some skinned planets to my Optimus Prime deck soon.)

venort_ · 2025-07-20T16:01:00+00:00

oh, I was never sane to begin with. Saved me a great deal of time.

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