u/Content-Wrongdoer-61

I'm new to magic but have already dropped $3K on cards

$1500 - 2 forever decks (angel tribal atraxa good stuff and sweaty Kriik deck, both bracket 3)

$1500 on cards to show case (like a ripple foil colossal dreadmaw i really like)

since then I've been buying proxies to make a few other much cheaper decks. I was getting them off eBay where they're obviously fake/ low quality but recently ordered off a Chinese website that has proxies and when they arrived I realize they're literally indistinguishable from the real thing.

i decided to swap out my real cards to put them in a binder and just play with proxies until I go to an actual tournament when I accidentally dropped both piles of cards on the ground. I picked them up and it hit me that I genuinely could not figure out which card was real or fake even after an hour of hyper scanning. Somehow I never thought to buy a jeweler’s loupe when I was dropping thousands of dollars on magic cards!

this makes me

1. ⁠not want to buy anymore $10+ cards
2. ⁠makes it so I don't want to sell any of the cards I mixed up out of fear of scamming someone
3. ⁠now I'm questioning if any of the expensive cards I purchased are just proxies themselves

so on one hand I feel like I wasted a few grand on expensive cardboard but on the other hand I wasted a few grand on expensive cardboard

still unsure how to feel tbh, really makes you think

I was trying to explain this to my friend, but I can't seem to explain it well.

Just to make sure I'm getting this right, lets start from the top with the example at hand:

Lets say [[Morophon, the Boundless]] and [[Fist of Suns]] are out on the board. This lets you cast the chosen creature type for free. Morophon has just entered the battlefield and priority passed as usual, no responses from the board. Now my friend put a cast trigger on the stack to play a creature from their hand. When priority is passed again, someone else targets Morophon with an instant speed removal spell. My friend tried to say that before that removal spell resolves they could play the rest of the creatures from their hand.