Agree with this thread's concerns!
Issues:
DFC are hard to put in cube especially the playable DFC are complex ones, and hard to put into heart.
Desleeving and resleeving every pass of the draft is such a pain.
No decent proxies are feasible. (Single faced proxy idea is great, but somehow a newbie will be confused by it)
My solution (not a unique one, but this will have to do)
1. A checklist card or a 2nd copy of the DFC is placed in a draft
2. The real card is in a transparent sleeve you use only in play. Put it along with your token cards.
Advantage: absolutely no resleeving
Disadvantage: You will be drafting with an ugly checklist card, and you have to reference the main card.
I use the exact solution above. I only use checklist cards for my second copy, where budgetary conditions apply (*cough*babyjace*cough)
Update: I know this'll probably paint me a flip-flopper, but given just how many DFCs I'm gonna need to keep track of (and inform my players of), I'm seriously considering the flip-card proxy method. To those who've been using this approach, how has it been working out?
Those are awesome! Thank you for making them for the community. Any chance of making a Garruk Relentless? It seems like it would be too much text unless you eliminated some or all of the art.
I posted these over in the Digital Rendering Thread here. The others I made originally are in an earlier post there too. For those of you who try to make it easier for new players, is there any confusion about what transforming entails, when the cards are sleeved?
You can find all the single-sided DFC renders here:
No offense to BW, but those over-emphasize the art. For my purposes, I just need pragmatic functionality and readability, not something pretty. (Damn. I sound autistic, don't I?)
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No offense to BW, but those over-emphasize the art. For my purposes, I just need pragmatic functionality and readability, not something pretty. (Damn. I sound autistic, don't I?)
No offense taken. I actually agree to some extent - some of the renders are less readable than I would like. Maybe I could experiment with adding more contrasting layers around the text. I don't want an entire text box of gray covering the art, but I could probably expand the black border around the text beyond the 2 pixels it's currently at. Open to other ideas too. I don't think I would emphasize text over art to the extent that improbitas has, however. (oh, and if anyone wants the template I use, I can share that too)
Personally, I am a visual learner and visual rememberer, so the art is helpful for identifying cards more quickly and reducing repeated reading. I suppose that's the same for everyone - perhaps just moreso for me. Of course, others may not feel it's that important. It is nice to have options rather than the (frankly) disappointing checklist cards Wizards gives us, and I'm happy to contribute toward that. Speaking of which, I've updated my post with the DFCs from Eldritch Moon. Pleasant cubing, folks.
I use the exact solution above. I only use checklist cards for my second copy, where budgetary conditions apply (*cough*babyjace*cough)
Aesthetically I feel like these would work best for my group.
I'm officially proposing we retire the word "insane" from the MtG vocabulary.
"The best way to be different is to be better" - Gene Muir
Cubes:
Modern Banlist Cube
Monocolor Budget Cube
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I'm officially proposing we retire the word "insane" from the MtG vocabulary.
"The best way to be different is to be better" - Gene Muir
Cubes:
Modern Banlist Cube
Monocolor Budget Cube
Personally, I am a visual learner and visual rememberer, so the art is helpful for identifying cards more quickly and reducing repeated reading. I suppose that's the same for everyone - perhaps just moreso for me. Of course, others may not feel it's that important. It is nice to have options rather than the (frankly) disappointing checklist cards Wizards gives us, and I'm happy to contribute toward that. Speaking of which, I've updated my post with the DFCs from Eldritch Moon. Pleasant cubing, folks.