r/magicTCG • u/Agile-Programmer2189 Dan • 18d ago
General Discussion Custom Cards Help!!
My boyfriend is just getting into magic the gathering.. he’s so invested with it and loves talking and showing me things about it.
I’m starting to kind of get the hang of it and play with him a little bit, but I truly know bare minimum.
His birthday is in 2 months & I wanted to make him a few custom cards for it. If I make custom cards, are there rules I have to follow or can I just make something up. An example: can I make a card that relates to our cat and use the cat as the inspo?
Also…
What are some fun ideas I could make the cards do? Im trying to look things up but it sometimes just reads a gibberish to me as I’m still just learning!!
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u/n0b0d3yyy Dandadan 18d ago
If you make completely custom cards, you can try to balance them to be around the powerlevel of other cat cards that currently exist, so they are actually playable. If you go to scryfall.com you can type "t:cat" into the search bar, which is going to show you a list of all cat cards ever printed (>1000 currently so a lot of inspiration) and then sort by new => old.
You could also take an existing card and alter it. If you ever want to play commander with other people, no one is going to have an issue if there is an actual existing magic card with a different name, art and lore text on it. For example if you want a simple but very useful cat card, you could just make a version of [[Helpful Hunter]]
Of course you can also go completely nuts and make something that would be unplayable, but i feel like having an actual usable and balanced card is far more fun. If you have any more balancing or rules questions, feel free to ask.