MPC Proxy Stuff

MakePlayingCards MTG Proxy Stuff

RESOURCES:
https://www.makeplayingcards.com/design/custom-blank-card.html - This is where you start. The default options are perfectly fine (S30, full color, MPC game card finish, shrink-wrapped). The more cards in your deck, the cheaper the cost-per-card. Note: Shipping not included in the estimates on this page. Usually ranges from $10-20 depending on the size.
http://mpcautofill.com/ - A wonderful tool. Input a list of cards, select images, download a generated XML, and run the program. (Actual autofill process bugged for me, but image downloads worked fine and I just uploaded and arranged those myself, YMMV). You're probably gonna use this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mpcproxies/ - Most discussion on MPC-formatted proxies is posted here, and there may be some images here that autofill doesn't have.
https://imgur.com/a/MKJRSbA - My crap. LardFetcher memes, Hell's Cube, custom cards, and some alt arts, all shoved into a template and with copyright info removed.
http://waifu2x.udp.jp/ - Image upscaler. You'll want this if you're formatting your own proxies. I personally use Artwork, Low, 2x for MSE cards, which spits out an almost perfectly sized image. There are other sites out there that do AI upscaling, I just use this out of habit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/bootlegmtg/comments/7vgq9w/another_step_by_step_guide_for_mpccom/ - A guide with a (really basic) template.
https://www.gimp.org/ - A free image editor. Just open the template above in GIMP, drag n drop your unformatted images, scale that layer to an appropriate resolution (usually ~745x1040), and remove any copyright info.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MTGLardFetcher/ - A source of meme cards.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HellsCube/ - A source of technically-playable meme cards.
https://www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/ - A source of supposedly playable, mostly non-meme cards.
https://magicseteditor.boards.net/page/downloads - Magic Set Editor, for Windows. Download the Advanced or Mainframe version. (There exist hi-res, preformatted MSE templates, but the ones I've found only support a limited selection of card types/borders, and have text-scaling issues. Wouldn't recommend those.)
https://mtg.design/ - An online card creator. I like MSE better, however I think this spits out higher-res images.

General advice:
If you just want to print proxies of real, existing cards, use mpcautofill and/or trawl /r/mpcproxies for images.
If you want to make your own proxies of custom cards or whatever, grab the images you want, upscale them with waifu2x if needed, drop them in the template, scale them down to an appropriate resolution, and remove any copyright info.
You can sometimes get away with a few cards in your MPC order having copyright info (you might do this if removing the copyright info isn't a clean job), but it's a crapshoot depending on what employee reviews your order. Your mileage may vary.
You can print stuff on the back of cards too! If you're printing out dumb, non-functional memes, maybe consider a basic land (or anything) on the back.