Oooh the almost perfect run! Better than I would’ve done if I didn’t already know the answers 😄

Apiary and Revive have 6 letters, not five?

@@jamessimmons3687 🤫 the question is am I a trickster or just someone that can't count?

Very good

Very well played and thanks. I had to throw some tricky ones in there just to keep it interesting for those that know their stuff like you.

I do understand where you're coming from and if I've not been clear enough then you're right but I tried to be explicit that this only included expandable/living/collectible card games, those that have a fairly consistent release cadence of new cards added to the pool and generally speaking (all except Keyforge I think off the top of my head) have deck construction elements. My first go-around of this idea did include FFG products that were basically card games for all intents and purposes, like Blood Bowl: Team Manager, Space Hulk: Death Angel and of course Star Wars: Deckbuilding Game, already with its first standalone expansion 😉 great game though, enjoy the slightly different take on a familiar genre.

Thank you kindly, I'm glad you liked it.

Excellent shout, I've never tried it myself, will have to give it a go.

I wholeheartedly disagree. Some of the best solo games of all time are on this list. Definitely worth a look if you’re into solo gaming in any way.

Thank you. Great name 😉

Hi and thanks glad you enjoyed it, there’s a link on lotrtcgpc.net/resources.html to a file share that should get you there.

Thank you kindly, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Do you do 300gsm and no lamination? Also are you printing proxies on the paper or just on a vinyl sticker and just stick it on the card stock? I'm wanting to print directly on paper, flip, print backs, cut, round, sleeves.

@@chomper1329 The print quality on paper just is not as good, the stickers are so thin they add almost no weight to the end product but end up being much higher quality and the vinyl is more resistant to tear and water than the paper alone is similar to how MTG cards coating is. So get a 110lb cover stock (300GSM hard to find) and vinyl printable sticker paper (amazon), then print on the sticker paper and attach it to the coverstock carefully. The cardstock that WotC uses is a coated 300gsm blue core card stock and it's not possible to find as far as I know for regular consumer printers. I don't print backs because they are always sleeved but I also like using a black cardstock because it looks nice when finished. The corner on proxies is 2mm btw, and 3mm for alpha/beta cards. It's more effort than just printing on cardstock, but if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right.

​@@williamforsythe5850 You came through! I was thinking just stickers over junk cards... But the 110+sticker works if all cards are the same right? Laser or inkjet for stickers and how to your get out to lay correctly?

@@chomper1329 Inkjet can technically do more vivid prints but I got an Brother HL-L3220CDW LED laser printer and the fact that it prints mostly without any issue is a god-send for printing cards. Laser is inherently more waterproof and inkjet is always issue after issue for me and massive amounts of wasted sheets getting the colors to all work correctly when printing (clogged heads, bleeds, misalignment, It's terrible). I would honestly say go brother brand laser just for the consistency if you are fine with slightly less vivid colors. For alignment front and back I have no idea how to make it perfect. As far as printing size, MTG cards are 63mm x 88mm exactly. When I make custom cards I made a 63x88mm (300dpi) photoshop blank image to import finished card pictures into, then size the card to the template exactly. I then copy paste that sized image into an 8.5"x11" printing template (us letter size) to print them with. If you set lower margins like .35" on the 8.5x11you can fit 9 cards vertically on there with cut lines if you want to include those. If you are printing existing MTG proxies that are not custom, go to mtgprint (.com) and input your cards to print and use the template they give when you input 9 or more cards. Make sure to print a mock up and compare the size your printer makes them to a real card, but 100% scale with no fitting to print area should work fine. Always print with quality over speed at highest DPI it will allow. If you download higher quality images from somewhere like scryfall, then use the card template you got from mtgprint and impose the pictures you download over it. It's much more time intensive but could give better results potentially for some card printings. With the sticker paper, glossy and matte both work well, honestly I can't tell which I like better. Matte looks more naturally played, gloss looks more shiny new, but both work. The one I use for my sticker shop is JANDJPACKAGING (140 g) on amazon, they are incredibly sticky, print well and are cheap. Perfect for MTG proxy imo.

@williamforsythe5850 Have you tried any kind of double-sided printing method with just the cardstock and if so is it just as hard to lineup the front and backs?

well played!

You're very welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Sounds like you'll need to resize the images to fit, in photoshop you can use CTRL + T to transform the size of the image to 744 pixels x 1039 pixels, so long as your canvas is in 300ppi (as in the template) and that should get them to fit. Alternatively you can use data driven graphics like I showed recently in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpizaHmIgdiibtU and it'll resize the images for you as they're imported.

@@DicevsCards This is great! Thanks so much, I'll try that.

Thank you, I'm glad you found it helpful. As far as printing settings go I can only really go through the basics like making suring you're selecting the right type of paper you're using in the printer settings and setting it to the highest quality. When you say you're getting varying results do you mean every time you print the same thing or when comparing it to what you see on screen? In terms of detailed advice I can't proclaim to be an expert but I do know that the recommendation is that you set Photoshop (or equivalent) to manage the colour management, making sure to turn colour management off in your printer settings. I have never found that this has done anything but its worth passing on consensus advice. Similarly it is usually suggested that you work with your images in CMYK mode as opposed to RGB when you're playing around with print media, but again in my experience that only serves to flummox Photoshop if and when I need to tweak the levels on the image. I tend to try doing an auto adjustment on the curves (in the adjustments tab of the image in Photoshop) as it generally brightens the image up a bit as I tend to find the colours are a lit bit darker than I was expecting but other than that I use the default settings. If you're asking about ICC or printer profiles or stuff like that then unfortunately I wouldn't be the best to give advice, although perhaps thats a worth subject for more research.

@@DicevsCards You don't need to be a printer expert, but you're getting great results. I have both an inkwell and laser printer, and I'm curious what model printer you're using to get those. Also, what paper have you settled on as a favorite since your video from 2 years ago?

Thats a very good shout, highly accessible one to check out.

Thats interesting, I must admit colour production is still something I want to understand more about, the "why" things come out the way they do, there seems to be a lot of contradictory information out there on the web and not all paper is necessarily coated with the same material to give a gloss or matte finish. Perhaps Matelina is a particularly good finish for colour reproduction. I completely agree I have to have a matte finish to ensure I don't get horrible reflections but that's why I make sure I just use the matte laminate or gloss laminate if I'm know I'm going to be sleeving them with matte sleeves.

sure

@@DicevsCards Do you have link for Download Bro! ?

Sure

Why? The game is fantastic.

Just missed out at #26 😮 it was in the previous video, its a game I absolutely revere but if I'm honest just don't play enough...........logs on to jinteki.net........