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Why Proxying is Good and Cool, Actually | Feat. Sheepwave | Magic: The Gathering Explained

Spice8Rack

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WOTC's stance on Proxies: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles...

Big thank you to:
Meghan Burden - Twitter: sheepycutie
Merx - Twitter: BeyondThMachina
Lu Alters - Twitter: FemmeBeachTop
Tim Gaedke - https://drawing-cards.com/
Saili Katebe as Mr Proxy - Twitter: RovingRoshi
Mia Macleod as Mrs. Proxy - Twitter: miaamacleod
Will Garrood as Mr. Official Magic Card - Twitter: Garroodyroody

InfiniTokens (@InfiniTokens on Twitter) Website:
https://www.infinitokens.com/

Artists Showcased:
Lu Alters - Twitter: FemmeBeachTop
Bento Box Proxies - Twitter: BentoBoxProxies
Feuer Ameise - Twitter: feuer_ameise
Synthsapiens - Twitter: synthsapiens
LichlordP - Twitter: LichlordP
Sumner - Twitter: SumNeuron
Force Of Wilko - Twitter: ForceOfWilko
Syr Proxy - Twitter: SyrProxy
Official Adam W - Twitter: OfficialAdamW
Aros Over - Twitter: ArosOver
Tmbocheeko - Twitter: tmbocheeko_
Brittain Avery - Twitter: _BrittainAvery
Magical Raen - Twitter: MagicalRaen
Dark K - Twitter: Dark_K_stuff
Taya Transcends - Twitter: tayatranscends
ALK Alters - Twitter: AltersAlk
Proxy Lab - Twitter: lab_proxy

Timestamps
00:00-04:19 - Introduction
04:20-10:09 - What is a Proxy?
10:10-15:41 - How do you make Proxies?
15:42-20:50 - Proxies vs Counterfeits
20:51-25:31 - Is Proxying theft?
25:32-31:05 - Proxies in Sanctioned Events.
31:06-36:12 - The Etiquette of Proxying
36:13-41:34 - Why Proxying is Good (conclusion)
41:35-47:18 - Artists + Giveaway
47:19-51:17 - Credits + Proxy Art

Tags:
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20 Comments

@the8cell 5 years ago Pinned

LETSGOOOO

HEY SPICE8RACK DID YOU NOTICE THAT THE ARTIST SHEEPWAVE GAVE YOU A VERSION OF GAEA'S CRADLE THAT HAS A TYPO

SHS BAD AND SHOULD FEEL BAD

@Level_1_Frog 5 years ago

Outside of an official tournament setting, not letting people play with proxies is basically saying that they dont want to fight your skill they want to fight your wallet.

@ividboy7616 1 year ago

"Proxies are theft"

-guy who spent thousands of dollars on cardboard and is very mad that you dont feel the need to do the same

@aztralsea 3 years ago

"What are they gonna do? Call the card police?"

Little did we know

@berendboer8459 5 years ago

Broke: Building a Commander deck with 37 matching basic lands.
Woke: Building a Commander deck with 100 matching basic lands and a sharpie.

@blazerboy55 5 years ago

"An actual magic card is a proxy of the actual rules object that it is supposed to represent"
Truer words were never spoken.

@wdfulton 5 years ago

Arguing that a real Magic card is a proxy "of the rules object it represents" is such Platonism and I am HERE FOR IT.

@Mangoosie 5 years ago

I had a friend who made an eldrazi commander deck, but he didnt have access to any wastes so we just agreed that all the swamps in the deck were wastes

@frostangel1672 3 years ago

25:28 "What are they gonna do, call the card police?" Well, they have shown they are not above calling the Pinkertons.

@_somerandomguyontheinternet_ 5 years ago

This “D” guy sounds like he’s lots of fun at parties.

@jasondeutschbein8102 5 years ago

You convinced me to print a Black Lotus just to see if I could. Literally inkjet printer glued to an island. It's marvelous.

@tyr9514 5 years ago

Im not paying 50$ for some card stock and ink because a greedy corporation refuses to reprint said cardstock for the sake of having collectors feel like they are important

@johncrossley6945 5 years ago

Back in 96 or so my buddy got the first color printer we ever saw. His dad got soooo mad when we used all the ink in two days printing proxies 🤣 🤣

@JBOBloedsinn 5 years ago

Proxy's Bizarre Adventure: Spicy Tendency

@TeaIngyer 1 year ago

Fun fact. The term theft has for a majority of its use has meant to take property with the intent to deprive it's owner of it.
If you write "Lighting bolt" and "Lighting bolt does 3 damage to any target" on a piece of paper, then draw a lil red dot in the top right corner... You have not deprived Hasbro of anything. They still own Lightning Bolt the Magic The Gathering card.
If theft included the copying of a work, then tons of historical painters would have been in jail for doing their own versions of other people's paintings.

The idea that you own an idea AFTER you share it is a modern convention, designed to serve laissez faire capitalism. It wasn't even much of a thing under merchantile capitalism.
You can't take back what you say, you can't take back an idea once shared. If you want to keep an idea to yourself, you keep it inside your head.

I fully, completely believe that a part of modern trends toward depression and melancholy are due to the distortion of art culture to suit laissez faire capitalism, and it will only get worse as AI proliferates.

This is why I am strongly in the Free Art movement. Money should not be a barrier to participate in the humanities.

@jarrakul 1 year ago

Surely WotC saying it's okay to proxy outside of official tournaments should settle the argument once and for all, yes? Like, putting aside whether they should have the power to tell you that you can't, putting aside whether they have the legal authority to do so (you can't copyright game rules in the US, so it's a bit murky what they can copyright on cards), surely the hardline anti-proxying stance would be "you can't do it unless the company that makes the official product gives you permission," right? And they've given permission.

@chaostear13 5 years ago (edited)

Not gonna lie, I misread as "Why Phyrexian is good and cool, actually." and was confused for far longer than I should.

@joebass5074 5 years ago

Smothering Tithe was an inspired choice for the official card.

@cringenuclearfan9391 5 years ago

Actually, there are people who should come into your work place and tell you how to do your job:
Safety Inspectors

@ssmmeeaarrggllee 5 years ago (edited)

Another proxy product officially released by Wizards was the Collectors Edition box, with Power 9 with different backs on it. You could even say the oversized commanders or today's thicc ones are proxies.
And on the Japanese official Magic manga, proxies are mentioned and played like a normal thing.