This has obviously led to significant, consistent price growth, as well as blunt attempts at market manipulation
People use proxies for a bunch of extremely normal reasons: - Playtesting new decks before spending money - Commander upgrades without chasing down every last staple immediately - Cube maintenance (updating lists without re-buying a small nations GDP) - Kitchen table games where the goal is fun, not authentication theater - Protecting valuable cards by keeping originals safe while you play with substitutes If your group is on board, proxies are often the simplest way to keep games creative, fair, and actually happening
Regarding that, I see how the plot cost compares to the casting cost of a card as a significant factor in how these cards play and should be played
So, the list below are chock-full of value-granting multi-color creatures
More worrying still is that these boosters do see some incredible pulls for the most part, but like any random booster pack, nothing is for sure
So you feel like getting away with something if you open up Hopeless Nightmare, Monstrous Rage or Up the Beanstalk in a draft
