Proxy Competitive Decks
The Trading Post forum
Posted on July 15, 2015, 10:47 p.m. by UrbanAnathema
Would you pay $25 for a color printed, sleeved, proxy deck of any list of your choosing? Essentially this would be color prints of the cards of your list in front of a basic land in a sleeve. You wouldn't be able to play this at FNM...but you would be able to play kitchen table against your friends with your favorite deck on T/O or build a paper Gauntlet to simulate the meta of your choosing.
Let me know.
NobodyPicksBulbasaur says... #3
I'm not well versed on these things by any means, but be careful of potential copyright infringement. Printing proxies is no biggie, but selling them could be bad if someone who cares about those types of things sees it.
July 15, 2015 10:59 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #4
This is a bad idea. You're making money with someone else's images off of the secondary market.
And also, no. I have sleeves at home, and access to a printer myself. I'd pay $10 for this, maybe if I had 30 singletons in a deck.
July 15, 2015 11:34 p.m.
UrbanAnathema says... #5
Yeah. This is more an exploratory inquiry in order to gauge interest from the community. This definitely would be geared to those that don't necessarily have access to the resources to do this themselves. Thanks for the input thus far guys!
July 16, 2015 12:17 a.m.
Why is this in the trading post then?
Anybody can have access to the resources to do this themselves, all you need is a printer. Even if you don't own one you can go a library or a computer lab for example and do it for free. Or if you're feeling really masochistic you can just grab a sharpie and a bunch of worthless cards and go to town writing card names down, granted this way wont have the images, but as long as you know what the card does it shouldn't matter too much.
July 16, 2015 1:05 a.m.
KillDatBUG says... #7
....So essentially, I'd be paying $25 for sleeves.
Yeah, that's fair.
July 16, 2015 3:30 a.m.
JakeHarlow says... #8
This is in the Trading Post forum...? Huh.
I can see where this is coming from, but this isn't at all economical for your putative clients, or legal.
I'd pay someone a modest artisan's fee for a very well-made foil proxy of a single card (and even then, not official art!), but I would never pay $25 for a proxy deck. Especially when I can do it myself for roughly $12 (sleeves, paper, and ink costs). This just isn't worth it, dude. And the legal risk you'd accept wouldn't be either.
July 16, 2015 5:18 a.m.
UrbanAnathema says... #9
Yeah not trying to become the next internet mogul. I just completed building a Modern proxy gauntlet and was considering doing it for others and basically trying to determine whether or not it would be worthwhile.
Arvail says... #2
No. I can create high-quality proxies at home with a decent printer if I need to. It's 30 minutes of effort in all. That 30 min + ink isn't worth $25 to me.
July 15, 2015 10:53 p.m.