I want to build Standard Heirloom decks because the people in my LGS who don't play tournaments usually have standard precons slightly modified. The price limit will be the ones from the Heirloom format. I'll look the minimun price of the cards in MagicCardMarket. The price tag is from TCGPlayer mass entry without basic lands (in dollars), or from the sum of the costs of MagicCardMarket (in euros symbolized by #).
I'm between building some tribal EDH decks, building the anthologies duel decks or building some Heirloom decks. I would like to see some tribal decks like the dwarves one and some guild themed decks. Also I can't find a recent Heirloom deck.
Multiplayer
Multiplayer - Emperor[4:50] - Teams of three players. Each team has one emperor, who is protected by the other players.
Multiplayer - Usurper [9:08] - 5 players with randomly assigned roles.
Multiplayer - Commander[1:22] - 100 card decks with specific rules centered around a legendary creature called General or Commander.
Multiplayer - Tiny Leaders[2:34] - It is a variant of Commander, but restricts deckbuilding to cards of converted mana cost 3 or less.
Multiplayer - Big Deck [5:08] - Large pool of cards with no lands. Players can play each card as a land that taps for that card's color.
Multiplayer - Free-for-All - A group of players compete as individuals against each other.
Multiplayer - Dual Commander[7:42][7:42] - 1 vs 1 commander.
Multiplayer - Two-Headed Giant - Two Teams of two players each all play together in a single game.
Multiplayer - Planechase[2:02] - Normal decks are augmented with oversized plane and phenomenon cards.
Multiplayer - Chaos - Players create a "Chaos Deck" that adds extra challenges for players.
Multiplayer - Archenemy[0:44] - One player versus many opponents.
Multiplayer - Grand Melee - Ten or more players. Multiple players to take turns at the same time.
Multiplayer - Type 4 - Each player has access to unlimited quantities of mana, but is restricted to casting only one spell on each turn.
Multiplayer - Centurion - 100 card decks with at least 15 of each color, only one of each card.
Multiplayer - Assassin - Players are randomly assigned "targets" to defeat.
Multiplayer - 3-Card Blind - Forum-based, played with decks of three cards.
Multiplayer - Auction - Players bid with life points and hand size for preconstructed decks.
Multiplayer - Horde Magic[5:59] - All players working cooperatively to defeat an automated deck, usually made of zombies or goblins.
Multiplayer - Team vs. Team - Teams play against each other. Resources are not shared.
Multiplayer - Alternating Teams - Players are seated so that no one is next to a teammate and each team is equally spaced out.
Multiplayer - Conspiracy - Focuses on the drafting process and politics.
Multiplayer - Challenge Decks - All players working cooperatively to defeat an automated deck.
Constructed
Constructed - Pauper Magic - Only allows common cards.
Constructed - Tribal Wars - Emphasizes creature combat and tribal themes.
Constructed - Vanguard[3:29] - Normal decks are augmented with oversized cards that modify the rules
Constructed - Star[8:38] - Five players each represent one of the five colors of Magic.
Constructed - Prismatic - Each deck must contain at least 250 cards, including at least 20 cards of each color.
Constructed - Duel Decks - Sealed product.
Constructed - QL Magic - Only allows cards from the original border sets (Alpha through Onslaught). Uses Sixth Edition rules.
Constructed - 93/94 - Non proxy cards from Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends and The Dark. Non-English versions and reprints after Unlimited are considered proxies.
Constructed - Heirloom - Card price is below 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 1 for commons to mythics.
Constructed - Peasant Magic[6:45] - Commons and uncommons allowed.
Constructed - Highlander - Only one copy of each card in the deck, with the exception of basic lands. A deck must contain at least 100 cards. No sideboard.
Constructed - Rainbow Stairwell - Each deck contains exactly 60 cards, six cards from each of the five colors as well as six artifacts or colorless cards.
Constructed - Ancient - Only allows cards from the original border sets (Alpha through Onslaught).
Constructed - Singleton - Only one copy of each card in the deck, with the exception of basic lands.
Constructed - Freeform - All sets and cards are allowed. Regular deckbulding rules are relaxed.
Constructed - Classic - All sets and cards are allowed. Regular deckbulding rules do apply.
Constructed - Build Your Own Standard - Each player chooses a core set and two blocks to create their own Standard world.
Constructed - Build Your Own Block - Each player selects the first set from any block, the second set from any block and the third set from any block.
Constructed - Block Party - Each player uses cards from his favorite block.
Limited
Limited - Cube Draft - Players create a "cube", a specifically selected set of at least 360 different cards.
Limited - Fat Stack - Two communal libraries of cards which produce and don't produce mana.
Limited - Duplicate Sealed - Each player is provided with the exact same pool of cards.
Limited - Mental Magic - A card can be played as any card in the game with the same exact mana cost.
Limited - Rotisserie Draft - Every card of a subset of cards is legal and every card only appears once.
Limited - Solomon Draft - Drafting for two or four people.
Limited - Winston Draft - Drafting with variable stacks of cards.
Limited - Winchester Draft - Drafting with variable stacks of cards.
Limited - Back Draft - Reverse Booster Draft. Players build their opponent's card pool.
Limited - Reject Rare Draft - Each player donates 45 reject rares to play with.
Limited - Continuous Draft - Each player has a constantly changing card pool.
Limited - Judge Tower - Shared library and infinite mana.
Limited - Mini-Master - Each player starts with a single booster pack and fifteen basic lands.
Limited - Pick-a-Pack - Drafting with booster packs from many sets.
Also I want to make my own expansion symbol. How do I do it? I read it once over here but can't find it know. I think it was by compressing an image and saving as bmp or something like that.
I want to make rounded corners, the shadow of my card is pixelated but I don't know how to fix it and the artist info should have a grey border that I don't know how to do and a different brush icon.
Thank you. That will be the next one that I'll do so the tutorial will be very useful. Do you know why the shadows of the mana that I do are pixelated while the ones already in the template are fine? And how can I do rounded corners?
I'm doing some videos while I learn to make digital alters and I need to know what would you do different, how can I improve, what tutorials should I see? I'm really new to GIMP but I want to finish up knowing how to really do digitally altered arts, because right know all I know is how to copy and paste some art without any modification.
I've made somes videos (click the images in the spoiler) so you can learn how to do your own digital alters. For the purposes of the first video I choosed the more common template (the modern one in Zeerbe's template), in the second one I made a full-art card.
Making the mana symbols: just select the font Magic Symbols and then write "o" for doing a shadow, "ouo" for two.. Then for the symbols of mana it's the common: wubrg for white, blue, black, red, green.
Layer Masks create the illusion of certain elements (normally the artwork) "breaking" the surrounding card frames as seen in Planeswalkers & some Unglued/Unhinged cards. Layer Masks allow you to hide the elements you want without actually erasing anything. Here's a good GIMP Layer Mask tutorial for that.
Rounded Corners: The quick & dirty way is to do a Select > All on the artwork layer & then go to Select > Rounded Rectangle. Adjust the numbers in the pop up window that determine the desired roundness you want (8%). When you have that go to Select > Inverse so that only the corners you want to remove are selected. Then delete those areas.
** An extra step in this process you can take is once you have the desired corner roundness create a New Layer and fill it with a solid color and use that as a Layer Mask like in the tutorial linked above. That way you have it for future use for other renders you create.
Artist Info:GIMP Stroke Text tutorial. If you want to create a drop shadow effect follow the tutorial then finish up with Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and adjust the position of that layer to create the effect.
Pixelated Mana Shadow Zoom in, use a selection tool to just select the areas of the mana symbols that are pixelated and apply a very slight blur to them (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur).
I read the <snip>GIMP Digital Render Tutorial - Modern in the blog Proxy Factory but when I tried to do my first render I ran into a lot of trouble so I open this thread to explain how to do it as well as for learning more from more experienced users.
First thing is to download this zip. It contains an All-in-One template by Zeerbe, the fonts used in magic cards and the expansion symbols from
For explaining this I will be using
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UNFINISHED I will finish it shortly
Zeerbe's tutorial is already available in our Tutorial section. If you have questions on the process do it in the Official Digital Rendering Thread please.
More importantly the promotion of illegal activites (ie making physical proxies) is against the rules of this site. Thread locked. Warning issued - ZS
UW
Control
Warriors
Temur Midrange
This deck is an excuse to buy Butcher of the Horde now that it's so cheap.
Price $18.91 4/4/2015
4 Butcher of the Horde
4 War-Name Aspirant
Instant (20)
4 Mardu Charm
4 Lightning Strike
4 Devouring Light
4 Raise the Alarm
4 Take Up Arms
4 Hordeling Outburst
2 Despise
Enchantment (4)
4 Suspension Field
Land (22)
4 Nomad Outpost
3 Swamp
5 Plains
6 Mountain
4 Evolving Wilds
4 Nyx-Fleece Ram
The Magic: the Gathering Multiplayer and Casual Format Gateway
Other Formats of Magic, Part 1
Other Formats of Magic, Part 2
Multiplayer
Multiplayer - Emperor [4:50] - Teams of three players. Each team has one emperor, who is protected by the other players.
Multiplayer - Usurper [9:08] - 5 players with randomly assigned roles.
Multiplayer - Commander [1:22] - 100 card decks with specific rules centered around a legendary creature called General or Commander.
Multiplayer - Tiny Leaders [2:34] - It is a variant of Commander, but restricts deckbuilding to cards of converted mana cost 3 or less.
Multiplayer - Big Deck [5:08] - Large pool of cards with no lands. Players can play each card as a land that taps for that card's color.
Multiplayer - Free-for-All - A group of players compete as individuals against each other.
Multiplayer - Dual Commander [7:42] [7:42] - 1 vs 1 commander.
Multiplayer - Two-Headed Giant - Two Teams of two players each all play together in a single game.
Multiplayer - Planechase [2:02] - Normal decks are augmented with oversized plane and phenomenon cards.
Multiplayer - Chaos - Players create a "Chaos Deck" that adds extra challenges for players.
Multiplayer - Archenemy [0:44] - One player versus many opponents.
Multiplayer - Grand Melee - Ten or more players. Multiple players to take turns at the same time.
Multiplayer - Type 4 - Each player has access to unlimited quantities of mana, but is restricted to casting only one spell on each turn.
Multiplayer - Centurion - 100 card decks with at least 15 of each color, only one of each card.
Multiplayer - Assassin - Players are randomly assigned "targets" to defeat.
Multiplayer - 3-Card Blind - Forum-based, played with decks of three cards.
Multiplayer - Auction - Players bid with life points and hand size for preconstructed decks.
Multiplayer - Horde Magic [5:59] - All players working cooperatively to defeat an automated deck, usually made of zombies or goblins.
Multiplayer - Team vs. Team - Teams play against each other. Resources are not shared.
Multiplayer - Alternating Teams - Players are seated so that no one is next to a teammate and each team is equally spaced out.
Multiplayer - Conspiracy - Focuses on the drafting process and politics.
Multiplayer - Challenge Decks - All players working cooperatively to defeat an automated deck.
Constructed
Constructed - Pauper Magic - Only allows common cards.
Constructed - Tribal Wars - Emphasizes creature combat and tribal themes.
Constructed - Vanguard [3:29] - Normal decks are augmented with oversized cards that modify the rules
Constructed - Star [8:38] - Five players each represent one of the five colors of Magic.
Constructed - Prismatic - Each deck must contain at least 250 cards, including at least 20 cards of each color.
Constructed - Duel Decks - Sealed product.
Constructed - QL Magic - Only allows cards from the original border sets (Alpha through Onslaught). Uses Sixth Edition rules.
Constructed - 93/94 - Non proxy cards from Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends and The Dark. Non-English versions and reprints after Unlimited are considered proxies.
Constructed - Heirloom - Card price is below 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 1 for commons to mythics.
Constructed - Peasant Magic [6:45] - Commons and uncommons allowed.
Constructed - Highlander - Only one copy of each card in the deck, with the exception of basic lands. A deck must contain at least 100 cards. No sideboard.
Constructed - Rainbow Stairwell - Each deck contains exactly 60 cards, six cards from each of the five colors as well as six artifacts or colorless cards.
Constructed - Ancient - Only allows cards from the original border sets (Alpha through Onslaught).
Constructed - Singleton - Only one copy of each card in the deck, with the exception of basic lands.
Constructed - Freeform - All sets and cards are allowed. Regular deckbulding rules are relaxed.
Constructed - Classic - All sets and cards are allowed. Regular deckbulding rules do apply.
Constructed - Build Your Own Standard - Each player chooses a core set and two blocks to create their own Standard world.
Constructed - Build Your Own Block - Each player selects the first set from any block, the second set from any block and the third set from any block.
Constructed - Block Party - Each player uses cards from his favorite block.
Limited
Limited - Cube Draft - Players create a "cube", a specifically selected set of at least 360 different cards.
Limited - Fat Stack - Two communal libraries of cards which produce and don't produce mana.
Limited - Duplicate Sealed - Each player is provided with the exact same pool of cards.
Limited - Mental Magic - A card can be played as any card in the game with the same exact mana cost.
Limited - Rotisserie Draft - Every card of a subset of cards is legal and every card only appears once.
Limited - Solomon Draft - Drafting for two or four people.
Limited - Winston Draft - Drafting with variable stacks of cards.
Limited - Winchester Draft - Drafting with variable stacks of cards.
Limited - Back Draft - Reverse Booster Draft. Players build their opponent's card pool.
Limited - Reject Rare Draft - Each player donates 45 reject rares to play with.
Limited - Continuous Draft - Each player has a constantly changing card pool.
Limited - Judge Tower - Shared library and infinite mana.
Limited - Mini-Master - Each player starts with a single booster pack and fifteen basic lands.
Limited - Pick-a-Pack - Drafting with booster packs from many sets.
1, 2 CC
3, 4 CC
5, 6+ CC
1, 2 CC
3, 4 CC
5, 6+ CC
1, 2 CC
3, 4 CC
5, 6+ CC
1, 2 CC
3, 4 CC
5, 6+ CC
1, 2 CC
3, 4 CC
5, 6+ CC
Allied
Enemy
Shard
Shard
0, 1, 2 CC
3, 4 CC
5, 6+ CC
Creature
Basic
Mana fixing
Utility
Card Back
Emblems, Tokens, Oddities
Making the mana symbols: just select the font Magic Symbols and then write "o" for doing a shadow, "ouo" for two.. Then for the symbols of mana it's the common: wubrg for white, blue, black, red, green.
First thing is to download this zip. It contains an All-in-One template by Zeerbe, the fonts used in magic cards and the expansion symbols from
For explaining this I will be using
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
UNFINISHED I will finish it shortly
Zeerbe's tutorial is already available in our Tutorial section. If you have questions on the process do it in the Official Digital Rendering Thread please.
More importantly the promotion of illegal activites (ie making physical proxies) is against the rules of this site. Thread locked. Warning issued - ZS