Magic the Gathering Proxy

1st Jan 2026

A quick an easy way to print MTG cards

My friends and I have been getting into Magic The Gathering card game, which is good fun but very expensive. Each deck is somewhere between $200 to $1000 AUD. It’s pretty common to “proxy” a card, by printing them out yourself. The proxy technique I use is to buy many cheap official cards, put them into card sleeves, and insert pieces of paper over the front of the card.

There are free sites online that create PDF files for printing the more expensive cards, but I found them a bit lacking. In particular, I want to pick the specific art style of that card, and upload my own custom art.

So I spend a day to make my own at https://nickdavesullivan.com/mtg-maker-ts/

It leverages scryfall for all the Magic the Gathering data, including images, and is just a simple react-based client-side app.