I am not sure that there is a need for a whole community to be centred around proxies. What would be the purpose of it? I do think however it would be nice to have a discussion about some good resources for proxies and tokens.
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The purpose would be to discuss and post nice proxies (see the mpcroxies subreddit). I like to make my own art and get them printed, I'd like to see what other people are doing and share some resources.
I guess it depends what you mean. If you're suggesting proxies as an alternative when price comes up or whatever I think that's fine, we don't need to ban the P word like reddit used to do. I think in-depth reviews or guides to using counterfeit sellers would probably be better in its own community, not for legal or WotC reasons but more because it's very niche and would just be spam for 99% of people who just wanna talk about Magic
Personally, I'd love to have a community for proxies in the sense of the playtest card/digital alters/printed (DIY or via a printing service) style of proxies. I think that's pretty much totally inoffensive (in the sense that, people who don't like proxies don't have to subscribe to such a community, and it being here wouldn't alter their experience.) I love the custom treatments/digital alters/etc. that come out of the various proxy communities, and would definitely enjoy seeing it here. It's such a great form of creative expression and really enhances my interaction with Magic as a hobby.
As for whether or not to have a community for 'bootleg' style proxies, I would understand if the admins didn't want to host that sort of thing, for whichever reason, and personally I have no real interest in being active in such a community. But not because I think there's anything wrong with it, since most people just use them to be able to play with the cards that have had their value artificially inflated - so it also wouldn't bother me if such a community was here.
I know much of the printer/playtest proxy community is spread across Discord and Reddit, so I'm not sure if it would have a new 'home' here, or if it would be a smaller subsection of the wider community - which I guess would be the other factor in deciding whether there ought to be a community like that here.
Orrr should there be a separate community for people dedicated to the economy of Magic as a corporate controlled enterprise instead of the play dynamics of the trading card game we got into as kids?
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