This may seem like a silly topic to make for some, but it's causing me some minor-to-moderate amount of stress from an aesthetics perspective. The checklist cards for traditional DFCs are fairly straightforward - you bubble in/fill in/check the name of the card it stands in for, and in some cases write the p/t or loyalty in the lower-right-hand corner. Minimal penmanship required.
However, for the new checklist cards that correspond with MDFCs, it's just a blank slate for you to write the whole front and back name of the card, plus a blurb to describe the card. I have no idea what to do with this area. It feels weird to leave it blank, but I also am not a fan of my own handwriting being on prominent display during the draft (my handwriting is fine, just a weird hangup of mine).
For the actual draft, I use checklist cards (shocking) and then all DFCs are available for people to review during the drafting process so they know what each one does. This mitigates the need to have too much written in the box from a drafting perspective, but might still be useful during play.
As a sort of side-note, there are also nine different arts for checklist cards. I think I'm going to try to ignore that for now, since I don't have equal access to the nine arts now, but is another change from previous checklist card options.
For people planning to use the new MDFCs with checklist cards, what is your plan for the checklist cards themselves?
Do you need the checklist cards for these MDF cards yet? You might when we start getting flip spell/non-land permanents, but right now they are all just lands on the other side and only the mythics have the untap option, so it should be easy to remember.
If you want to use the checklists, I'd just look at custom stickers. It's a rectangular box so there's probably a service out there that will print custom size stickers with just text on them, or you could get sticker paper for your printer and cut them out yourself.
Edit - actually, custom stickers might be cool, you could have faded art in the background and the text over it.
I don't *need* checklist cards really at all, but I'd rather show off the art on the backside without desleeving instead of having them play a face-down land.
Custom stickers sounds cool, though. I might look into that.
Also, bold of you to assume that I have a printer.
Oh and yeah just memorizing what the back of the card does doesn't help for aesthetic purposes. I guess I'd go the "buy two of each" route but the mythics and pathways are pre-ordering for $5-$15, so that could get expensive quick. Do you have a friend that can do calligraphy? That could be fun (if hard to read). There's also sites that will make custom proxies but I think they run ~$2.50-$5 each for small runs so it might not save you any money.
Oh and yeah just memorizing what the back of the card does doesn't help for aesthetic purposes. I guess I'd go the "buy two of each" route but the mythics and pathways are pre-ordering for $5-$15, so that could get expensive quick. Do you have a friend that can do calligraphy? That could be fun (if hard to read). There's also sites that will make custom proxies but I think they run ~$2.50-$5 each for small runs so it might not save you any money.
I have access to printers at work and with friends in theory, but not super soon with COVID. But I also don't really need to sort this imminently for the same reasons.
I might be able to get my wife to do calligraphy if she can find the time (she's way busier than I am), but I still have to figure out what I'd want to write in the box.
I don't think it is a silly question, since dfc are a bit unpractical.
At first, I went for checklists but people I draft with didn't like seeing checklists during the draft in terms of aesthetics.
Next step for me was to not bother with that and have the card itself: flipping the card takes 3-4 seconds during a game so no big deal.
No big deal until we started seeing cards unflipped from previous drafts showing up in boosters. And in my group, when sawn during drafts, people tended to immediately flip them back and the others were aware that the guy had dfc in his booster.
To make up for both aesthetics and practiality, the easy way for me was for each dfc I have to get an extra copy in a sleeve of a different color that is already flipped. Added bonus: you show off more if they are foil
Edit: well, nevermind, I visibly cannot read correctly a question. You are asking solutions that involves using checklists. Outside of printing (either text or image), writing or drawing on them...
If it was me, since I don't know anyone good at drawing, I would have any temporary solution and when live events are back, I would have an artist I like doing illustrations on those blank checklists for each dfc I have in my cube. A win win since you get to have something unique and you pay someone you like for it.
Nah, I've considered getting two copies as well. It's not a practical option for me at this time, but it is something that's been suggested before and that I'm theoretically open to considering. For now, I'm going with checklists specifically.
However, for the new checklist cards that correspond with MDFCs, it's just a blank slate for you to write the whole front and back name of the card, plus a blurb to describe the card. I have no idea what to do with this area. It feels weird to leave it blank, but I also am not a fan of my own handwriting being on prominent display during the draft (my handwriting is fine, just a weird hangup of mine).
For the actual draft, I use checklist cards (shocking) and then all DFCs are available for people to review during the drafting process so they know what each one does. This mitigates the need to have too much written in the box from a drafting perspective, but might still be useful during play.
As a sort of side-note, there are also nine different arts for checklist cards. I think I'm going to try to ignore that for now, since I don't have equal access to the nine arts now, but is another change from previous checklist card options.
For people planning to use the new MDFCs with checklist cards, what is your plan for the checklist cards themselves?
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If you want to use the checklists, I'd just look at custom stickers. It's a rectangular box so there's probably a service out there that will print custom size stickers with just text on them, or you could get sticker paper for your printer and cut them out yourself.
Edit - actually, custom stickers might be cool, you could have faded art in the background and the text over it.
375 unpowered cube - https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/601ac624832cdf1039947588
Custom stickers sounds cool, though. I might look into that.
Also, bold of you to assume that I have a printer.
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Oh and yeah just memorizing what the back of the card does doesn't help for aesthetic purposes. I guess I'd go the "buy two of each" route but the mythics and pathways are pre-ordering for $5-$15, so that could get expensive quick. Do you have a friend that can do calligraphy? That could be fun (if hard to read). There's also sites that will make custom proxies but I think they run ~$2.50-$5 each for small runs so it might not save you any money.
375 unpowered cube - https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/601ac624832cdf1039947588
I might be able to get my wife to do calligraphy if she can find the time (she's way busier than I am), but I still have to figure out what I'd want to write in the box.
Draft my cube! (630 cards)
At first, I went for checklists but people I draft with didn't like seeing checklists during the draft in terms of aesthetics.
Next step for me was to not bother with that and have the card itself: flipping the card takes 3-4 seconds during a game so no big deal.
No big deal until we started seeing cards unflipped from previous drafts showing up in boosters. And in my group, when sawn during drafts, people tended to immediately flip them back and the others were aware that the guy had dfc in his booster.
To make up for both aesthetics and practiality, the easy way for me was for each dfc I have to get an extra copy in a sleeve of a different color that is already flipped. Added bonus: you show off more if they are foil
Edit: well, nevermind, I visibly cannot read correctly a question. You are asking solutions that involves using checklists. Outside of printing (either text or image), writing or drawing on them...
If it was me, since I don't know anyone good at drawing, I would have any temporary solution and when live events are back, I would have an artist I like doing illustrations on those blank checklists for each dfc I have in my cube. A win win since you get to have something unique and you pay someone you like for it.
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