A recent sale at Heritage Auctions saw this 1st edition PSA 10 rare Blastoise card sell for a staggering $45,100
As such, I keep a list of the numerous requests that I get
It's reported that the maker of the cards, Wizards of the Coast, had destroyed most of its creations, but only a handful of them are still out in the wild (notably around ten copies)
For example, the Tarot deck, originally for competitive card games, later morphed into a tool for fortune-telling
Adventures were returning, and one of the tweaks we were doing was off-color Adventures where the Adventure spell was a different color from the main spell
People use proxies for a bunch of extremely normal reasons: - Playtesting new decks before spending money - Commander upgrades without chasing down every last staple immediately - Cube maintenance (updating lists without re-buying a small nations GDP) - Kitchen table games where the goal is fun, not authentication theater - Protecting valuable cards by keeping originals safe while you play with substitutes If your group is on board, proxies are often the simplest way to keep games creative, fair, and actually happening
