(For example, we still don't have Fifth Dawn cards here yet, and must still play with proxies of them.) Substantial Substitutes The best kind of proxy card, and the one you're most familiar with if you read the site enough, are the playtest stickers. Here is a playtest sticker of Quicksilver Behemoth used during Darksteel development: These stickers are printed directly from our card database in large numbers, and then we all sit around and stick them on the appropriately-colored leftover cards from older sets
Online marketplaces like eBay, Whatnot, PWCC Marketplace, and Goldin Auctions typically offer the best prices for PSA-graded cards
I try to avoid those in my EDH decklists, as theyre expensive and if you already own them you dont need my advice to include them
The mystery cards are usually 25 random common cards and 1 rare card, offering very little value
The value it generates as a 1-mana loot effect, drawing you two cards and letting you pitch two essential graveyard cards, with the option to flashback, is frankly insane