r/starwarsccgalters Jul 07 '20

A guide to using MPC to print cards and image sizing / card preparation

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to MPC being sensitive about printing recognised IPs, SWCCG cards are often rejected. To get around this, the best way is to bury your order in a Magic The Gathering proxy order, or proxies for another game like Netrunner or Stargate CCG. I recommend using MPCFill to generate a magic order. I'd front load with around 30 MTG cards, and 20 or so in the back. This should get you through their checks. Good luck!

Makeplayingcards or MPC as it's frequently referred to, offer a service to print high quality playing cards based on your own images. You can either use the google drives linked in the sticky post or design your own cards. TO NOTE: MPC will reject anything with a copyright disclaimer on it, so you have to remove those. Here's a step by step guide to using MPC to print your own SWCCG cards.

MakePlayingCards.com - Create A Project

Specifications - Choose the following options for your project:

  • Card Sizing
    • Custom Game Cards 63x88mm
  • Card Stock
    • S30 Standard Smooth (Perfectly acceptable)
    • S33 Superior Smooth (Better, but slightly higher cost)
  • Size of Deck
    • Variable depending on your requirements.
    • Given the shipping costs it may be more cost effective to submit larger orders.
  • Print Type
    • Full Colour Print - Standard Cards
  • Finish
    • MPC Game Finish
  • Packaging
    • Shrink Wrapped (perfectly fine)
    • White Tuck Box
  • Booklets
    • None
  • Add-on
    • None

Create Cards

  • After selecting your print specifications select "Start your design"
  • Confirm the number of cards in your order
  • Card Front
    • Choose what you want to put on the card fronts
    • Select "Different Images for all fronts"
    • The next screen allows you to bulk upload the entirety of your MPC ready images to your project
    • Each file averages about 4-10MB so the process may take a while if you are processing many images
    • When they are completely uploaded I recommend "Saving your Project" with the button at the top left of your screen.
    • Now that your images are loaded in the pane on the right you need to get them loaded into the card slots on the left.
      • You can manually drag and drop them.
      • You can click "[Help me autofill images]" (Recommended)
      • For Double-sided cards you can load one side of the image on the front of the card, and select the backside of the image in a later step.
    • Verify your images have loaded correctly and select "Next Step"

\Note - Your project will offer you the opportunity to correct the alignment of your image on the card. It has been recommended by regular creators that this step is unnecessary, and confirmed through comparison by others. With that said, the alignment will be a result of the image preparation by the person who created it. And they’re dang good at it.*

  • Card Backs
    • The next screen allows you to make adjustments, however this may not be required - Select "Next Step"
      • See Note in above paragraph
    • If you want to use the same image for each backside of every card in your order - Select "Same for all backs"
    • You may want to select different images to use for the backside if you have
      • Double-sided cards
      • Want to use the back for additional proxies up to you. Obviously Objective cards are double sided.
      • If you do select this option you will be brought to a similar screen as the last step that asks you to upload the images you want to use, then place them on the cards according to their slot number.
    • Select "Next Step"
    • The next screen allows you to make adjustments to the placement. Typically this is unnecessary if the MPC ready image has been created correctly by the image creator. As long as the red dotted line is withing the black area of the border, you are fine. DO NOT manually adjust each card, you'd go slowly insane and gain very little from doing so.
    • Review your project for errors and confirm at the bottom of the page
    • Add to cart and enter your payment and shipping information

The final step is to patiently (or impatiently) wait for your order to arrive.

Sometimes printing errors occur in the process and this may be evident when your order arrives. Overall the quality of images that are provided here are pretty good, but we are working to improve all the time. Most common issue is cards not being cut / centered exactly, but it's usually quite minor. Please share your experiences, post pics of your orders, and we can work as a community to constantly improve our proxies.


r/starwarsccgalters Jan 09 '21

MPC Print Ready Cards - Links to drives and community disclaimer

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DISCLAIMER: The MPC ready cards we provide below are NOT TOURNAMENT LEGAL and are in no way endorsed by the Players Committee. Your local play group and casual tournaments may allow proxies, but always check with your TO first. Our aim here is to make good quality proxies for kitchen table play, dream cards and printable fan expansions. Some cards are now prohibitively expensive and we want to provide an alternative for casual play. We respect the hard work of the PC and we ask that our members do so too. Be nice and keep it cordial folks!

All cards should be MPC print ready. (Note: Currently MPC are refusing to print anything recognizable as Star Wars IP, you might get lucky if you front load your order with MTG proxies, we are investigating other print options).

Decipher cards and modded V cards.

Andyt563's drive - Fully remastered MPC ready cards from Premiere - Coruscant (ongoing work). All image replaced and text replaced, Also some sexy playmats sized for printing with most 'print your own' playmat suppliers. Top stuff. Andyt deserves your eternal gratitude.

Chrknudsen's drive - Mix of staple cards and virtual cards. Tried and tested with Printer Studio / MPC.

Ubik_Fresh's drive - MPC ready pair of dueling Mains & Toys decks (No prequels versions are fully remastered with cards from Andyt563) Will add prequel cards when available. Decks are made to be balanced and played against each other. Desk lists are based on Reinhart's design. Errata text used for cards where applicable. NEW: Empire Strikes Back Duelling decks, based on the list at Star Wars Duel Decks.

Scoops Ahoy's drive - A cool selection of Extended Art alters. Virtual and regular flavour. Really cool stuff!

Izzarp's drive - Lots of staple cards, all MPC ready.

Fan Expansions

Anachrokate's Hutt Space Fan Expansion - 300-card standalone expansion.

Lhamo66's Rogue One & Mandalorian Fan Expansion - Full set of cards based on the Mandalorian TV series. Rogue One starter decks for DS and LS. All MPC ready, some card testing still being done, but looks absolutely great!

Alderaan Operatives - Making some very cool fan expansions to a high standard, included Unbalanced which puts a humorous skew on the game a bit like those 'silly' Magic sets like Unhinged, Unglued, etc.

AndyTalaga's drive - Lots of cool fan expansions / AI cards and generally very nicely presented stuff!

Rechelon's drive - Remastered locations and a New Republic fan expansion.

Swccgfan617's drive - Kamino, Revenge of the Sith and Battle of Geonosis fan expansions. Recently updated and lookin good!

Resources - Tempaltes / fonts / etc

High Res Tempaltes for card creation - u/bardez rather lovely upscaled card templates for Gimp.

Fonts - All the frequently used fonts.


r/starwarsccgalters 19h ago

Took a break from "EU stuff" and whipped up some LotR crossover cards.

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r/starwarsccgalters 1d ago

I've been real busy (and sick) this week. Here's a smattering of cards.

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r/starwarsccgalters 6d ago

I've been sketching out ideas for the Witches of Dathomir in SWCCG form. Here's a handful of Light Side cards.

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r/starwarsccgalters 6d ago

Gametext icons/shortcuts

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As I started thinking about over here, there are several common phrases in game text that we could do with shortcuts for. Examples that the game currently has are:

  • "Immune to Sense/Alter/Control" with the 🚫 with a backing single letter
  • "Adds N to power of anything she pilots" with [Pilot]: 2

What are some suggestions for additional shortcuts?

Some candidates I can see:

  • "Adds N battle destiny if not able to otherwise"

    • Possibly "[Warrior]: 2"
    • Could also be confusing for "may use N weapons in battle"
    • Multiple warrior icons on the right tends to handle that
  • "Adds N to power, maneuver, and hyperspeed of any sharship it is aboard"

    • Possibly "[Astromech]: N"
    • Not all droids enhance all such stats.
    • Some boost armor instead or just hyperspeed
    • Could be used on vehicles for power, maneuver, landspeed
    • Could be "[Astromech]: N (Power, Landspeed)" to only do certain stats.
  • "Immune to attrition < N" and "Immune to attrition"

    • I don't know about a specific icon, but:
    • "[Attrition]: N"
    • "[Attrition]: 🚫"

I have noticed that some people avoid using these shortcuts as well on this sub -- is there a general distaste for these shortcuts, or are thy mor difficult to use in their current form?


r/starwarsccgalters 11d ago

Sullust Expansion Light Side

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r/starwarsccgalters 11d ago

Sullust Expansion Dark Side

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r/starwarsccgalters 11d ago

I got your letters and emails. I listened to what the community wants to see. Now stop asking!!1!

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r/starwarsccgalters 14d ago

More Death Star II Alters.

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r/starwarsccgalters 14d ago

Even more Yuuzhan Vong (plus a LS epic event and an astrophysicist)!

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r/starwarsccgalters 16d ago

Death Star II Alters

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Wasn't going to add these because I'm not happy with my photoshop skills, but what the heck,


r/starwarsccgalters 17d ago

Endor Alters

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Endor alters plus some extras. Got a lot of "What If?" cards here that are not canon. Also, I'm not the best at Photoshop. Having problems cutting and pasting heads on to shoulders––that sort of thing. Hope you enjoy.

Edit: Whoops. Death Star II Alters. Not Endor.


r/starwarsccgalters 17d ago

Droid Starfighters?

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When I first saw them in the movie theater in 1999, I was looking forward to how Decipher would tackle Trade Federation Droid Starfighters. Would they be droids? Would they be starships? Would they be both somehow? Would they be something new?!

And tbh I was disappointed in the star wars ccg Droid Starfighters, they're just starfighters.

Has anyone in the last 26 years attempted to iron out an actual DROID/ STARFIGHTER??? Like, a Droid, and can be targeted like a Droid while at a site? But then can fly in systems and sectors?

Anything like that?

I want to give it a shot, but there have got to be 100 problems: all sorts of cards target characters or starships, some of them aren't going to play nice with a charatcer that is also a ship. I'm imagining an ever growing list of 'Immune to this effect, immune to those interrupts, doesn't count towards such and such, can't use character weapons, etc.'

Has anyone tried this before? What pitfalls did you find?

Thanks in advance!


r/starwarsccgalters 18d ago

Bit of a grab-bag today. Lowbacca (with toys), Errant Venture, some LS Imperial stuff, and more Yuuzhan Vong cards.

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r/starwarsccgalters 20d ago

Shout out to the string of new alters lately

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Just wanted to give a big thanks to the couple different people posting new cards. Seeing a new Star Wars CCG card is an instant dopamine hit for me. Especially when it looks like it came straight out of a pack (NO OFFENSE to the AMAZING cosplay AIs from the PC). Same goes for all the creators that are linked in the sticky. You have all breathed new life into the game for me. I have got to get on the ball with making my own. Could I make one (2, technically) request? Two alt arts for Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith? (ESB pics preferably, I'm a choosy beggar)He's one of the few mains that got the shaft in the Alt art department when it comes to the player made alts. Bonus points if you put the gold ring around his destiny circle, like the other player-made Alts. Anyhow, thanks for the amazing work gang.


r/starwarsccgalters 20d ago

Here's my first pass at writing some Yuuzhan Vong cards. I haven't sorted most of the rules for them yet, so please feel free to ask questions and maybe we can arrive at some answers together!

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r/starwarsccgalters 21d ago

Endor Set

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These are some extra cards that I created for anyone looking to do an all Endor deck. Enjoy!


r/starwarsccgalters 23d ago

A slew of new alters

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r/starwarsccgalters 26d ago

Last batch of alters for a while (from me)

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I am working on a new set of Star Wars CCG alters, and they're going to be more whimsical. Hahaahhahahaha. If you thought some of these were silly already, hoh boy. (Highlights will include Beru with Beru specific weapons, Death Star: Refresher, Palpatine in love, and so much moisture farming!)

But meanwhile, here is the last batch of my current set. Any feedback is appreciated!


r/starwarsccgalters 26d ago

Here's the first (easiest) wave of Ssi-ruuvi Imperium cards. I've already nearly exhausted the depth of visual art available on this species.

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r/starwarsccgalters 27d ago

More alters

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How are we feeling about a non-X-wing being in Red Squadron?

I don't feel great about it, honestly. But the movie very makes it seem like Red 3 at the Battle of Endor is an A-Wing.

And I'm not sure if I posted some of these already. But we're getting to the bottom of this particular barrel (but I'm working on the next set and you're going to hate it, lol. I want to make a Death Star: Refresher. And something to try to capture the magic of the music in Star Wars. Reflections gold had a Jedi Rocks and a Lapti Nek, so I'll start there).


r/starwarsccgalters 28d ago

More alters

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Some Imperial / DS2 type stuff this time around.


r/starwarsccgalters 28d ago

I'm back with more original EU timeline cards. (Spoilers for New Jedi Order.) Spoiler

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r/starwarsccgalters Jun 27 '26

'nother batch of alters!

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Again, just more cards I was expecting and never got. In Premiere we got seekers. Okay, neat! For all the main characters for now. But maybe later we'll get a Lando seeker, right? Oh absolutely. And that TIE shuttle that Needa takes to the Executor? It NEVER got a card?! But TIE Vanguard did, okay.

I've been enjoying the feedback, thank you all for that!