How to Build a Color Palette for a Full Alternate-Art Proxy Deck
Turn a loose alternate-art theme into a practical deck-wide palette with clear roles for color, contrast, card groups, exceptions, and final proofing.
Turn a loose alternate-art theme into a practical deck-wide palette with clear roles for color, contrast, card groups, exceptions, and final proofing.
TLDR The hardest part of building a Commander deck should be deciding which card to cut. It should not be downloading 100 images, formatting print sheets, trimming cards by hand, and trying to make printer paper feel acceptable inside a sleeve. That is the problem PrintMTG solves. This PrintMTG review looks at the company’s current … Read more
TLDR Buying the wrong Commander card feels bad in a very specific way. You sleeve it up, draw it twice, realize it does not fit your deck, and then quietly move it to the “maybe someday” box. The box grows. The lesson repeats. That is the practical reason to learn how to use MTG proxies … Read more
If you need a list of shock lands, here it is in plain English. Shock lands are the ten rare Ravnica dual lands that can enter untapped if you pay 2 life. If you do not pay, they enter tapped. Clean, efficient, mildly painful. Which, to be fair, describes a lot of Magic mana bases. … Read more
Last updated: March 21, 2026 A lot of card games disappear the moment the publisher steps away. Android:Netrunner did not. If you’re searching for Android Netrunner online, the answer is still yes: people are playing, testing decks, teaching new players, and showing up for organized events. But the structure around the game changed, and that … Read more
A normal one-for-one removal spell answers one permanent. That can be great. It can also be wildly insufficient when one player has made ten tokens, another has suited up a Voltron threat, and the third has an engine creature that should have been killed two turns ago. That is the part newer players often miss. … Read more