What do you do with your custom cards?

GodFerretGamingGodFerretGaming
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I love making cards on this website. But since last week, I have been wondering what to do with them. So, what do you do with your cards?
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  • mintyfreshmanamintyfreshmana
    I have been considering using some as Commanders in my playgroup. We're a chill group and are open to that kind of stuff. I cannot speak for all groups - I've had some very poor mtg experiences with overly competitive players and just jerks. Ask your playgroup what they're down with and go from there. Also offering custom cards to them to use will be a nice gesture too!
  • Biblio2Biblio2
    I print them out on sticker paper, put them on useless MtG cards, and use them in a homebrew game called Crossover Chaos. There are multiple decks each with a different theme, and a common deck for lands. Win/loss records are kept and you're not out unless someone is 20 wins ahead of you (you can be in negatives, and these play over multiple game sessions.) Start the game with however many lands you want to draw from the land deck and the rest from your deck. Lose a game and you start with a fresh deck and get to ban something for the remainder of play which can be multiple sessions. A card, a token type, an emblem, whatever, just not basic lands. Even obviously broken cards can be played, since banning keeps things in check. Banned is not exile, it's just gone and not allowed. The maximum hand size is seven, you can't draw more than your maximum, so play those cards or find a way to discard. If you have seven in hand, you can only draw a card from the land deck. If you search for a card, it's not going through the deck for it, but revealing from the top of your library until you hit a card that could be the one you were searching for, OR a card referenced by another card on the field or in your hand. Like you have a Batmobile that can only equip Batman, and while searching for an instant, you reveal Batman. Put Batman in your hand, shuffle the rest and put them on the bottom of your library. It's fun to attack Jace with Darth Vader, or kill a Serra Avatar with a Kamehameha x 10! Anime deck vs World War II vs Star Wars vs the Avengers all inside Magic. Anime deck dies, grab a random one, he's playing Disney now, keeping what was on the battlefield. Fun!
  • KrampisZmanKrampisZman
    I just put cards I like in my cube...
  • strongbelievesstrongbelieves
    I print them out, paste them onto crappy cards and then fill a tub with them and roll around.

    I have a lot of paper cuts.
  • GodFerretGamingGodFerretGaming
    I suppose I should say what I do!

    What I like to do is take promo cards I don't care about (I would NEVER do my Expeditions Temple Garden. DO NOT get me started on that!) and I de-ink them. What I do after is I take my transparent paper and print out the cards I want. Then, after peeling off the sticker on the paper, I put it onto the card, and, viola! I have a proxy promo card!
  • GodFerretGamingGodFerretGaming
    @Biblio2, that sounds amazing!
  • ZendikarIncarnateZendikarIncarnate
    I let them sit there in my card library...
  • MilaMila
    Up to now, I just let them fill my card library. But soon, a friend of mine has birthday. Since he likes lots of my cards, I plan to print them on stickers, put them on my useless cards and give them to my friend as a birthday present.
    That's why I let him have a look at my cards every now and thes to see, which ones he likes best to choose his favourite ones :)
  • AnimistAnimist
    @Mila

    Sounds like an awesome birthday present! I'm sure he'd love that.
  • Faiths_GuideFaiths_Guide
    @Mila
    Print them on stickers? Neat!
  • GodFerretGamingGodFerretGaming
    @Mila, that is exactly what I do! I would like that as a birthday present!
  • MilaMila
    I hope it's not to expensive to have them printed on stickers, but they should be nice and shiny then and I can just cut them out and put them on some of the land cards, I have.
  • GodFerretGamingGodFerretGaming
    edited June 2016
    @Mila

    This is what I use for regular cards:
    https://www.amazon.com/Silhouette-Printable-White-Sticker-Paper/dp/B008RX1B1Y
    And for foils:
    https://www.amazon.com/Silhouette-Printable-Clear-Sticker-Paper/dp/B00B9Q9QY0

    Less than 5 bucks for 6 sheets, which each fit 9 cards. That is about 8 cents apiece.
  • MilaMila
    Thanks, that sounds great!
  • ZanmatoZanmato
    I just keep them on my MTGCS account - I don't have any proper cardboard stock in my house... :(
  • strongbelievesstrongbelieves
    You can also just print them on regular paper and use spray glue or a glue stick to stick them to a real card. You can't tell once they are in sleeves.
  • ZanmatoZanmato
    @strongbelieves - Thank you very much! :D I hope that my color ink didn't run out yet... XD
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    @strongbelieves - I don't even glue em... just cut to size and slide em in the card protector on top of another extra common. Saves sooooooo much time and sticky fingers!
  • Faiths_GuideFaiths_Guide
    edited June 2016
    I suppose @Corwinnn & @strongbelieves you could put 1 tiny piece of double sided tape between paper and card and both be happy... Maybe even still use the card underneath afterwards.
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    @Faiths_Guide
    Or we could lick em, and stickem on our foreheads, and try to guess what card it is.
    XD
  • Faiths_GuideFaiths_Guide
    Or just trash the whole idea. Then you'd *really* save time and sticky fingers.
  • GodFerretGamingGodFerretGaming
    @Corwinnn, how could you stick a huge card to your squirrel forehead? I'm amazed.
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    edited June 2016
    @GodFerretGaming

    I have a team of "Card Holders"... although their main job is "Nut Holder" which isn't as off kilter as it sounds... I mean, we're Squirrels... we like nuts

    This conversation is going in the gutter fast!
  • GodFerretGamingGodFerretGaming
    edited July 2016
    @Corwinnn, Fair enough...



















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  • Biblio2Biblio2
    @Zanmato Regular cardstock won't work as well as putting them on a real MtG card. Carta Mundi is the printing company and they put a thin layer of plastic inside each card which makes it hold up to repeated shuffling, and bend from top to bottom without creasing the card. Try it with a common Magic card, then with a Yugioh card or something similar that you don't mind ruining. It will have a huge crease in the Yugioh card, but the Magic card bends right back. That's why the "bend test" was one of the earliest way to spot MtG forgeries. We used to do it to Black Lotus and Moxes in the early days.
  • ZanmatoZanmato
    edited June 2016
    @Biblio2 - Thank you very much! ^^
    Cartamundi is also in Poland, so I'll give it a try. :D
  • MilaMila
    My friends birthday will be soon and I had the cards printed on normal paper for testing reasons. Glued them on old cards with a gluestick. They are better than I dared to hope, so no fooling around with printing them on stickers and stuff.
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    @Mila - if you just slide them into the sleeves with a card, you don't even need glue! Then you can easily change them out if you make revisions!
  • MilaMila
    edited July 2016
    It's a present and as realistic as they look now, I prefer to glue them. And my friend doesn't like using sleeves o_0
  • CorwinnnCorwinnn
    WhaT!? No Sleeves!? Blasphemy!!
    0.o
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