TL:DR: Decks here, decklists here

Hello everyone, this is a special post compared to what I usually do. It first started as a side project as I only had the intention to make the 2025 list, but then I started making other variants and at this point I'm calling it project 7.

This project contains a total of 5 different decks. All of the decks have been created by Nick Floyd, the creator of the Forgetful Fish MTG variant, also known as Dandân.

For those who don't know what this variant is, Forgetful Fish is a 2 player game where boths players share a library and graveyard, while keeping their hands and fields separate. The name of the variant comes from the only creature in the deck, Dandân, which is present 10 times, as well as a specific counterspell called Memory Lapse filling the Forgetful part as it's present 8 times in the deck. A lot of people call it Dandân because it's shorter, but I prefer the original name as it better reflects the gameplay in my opinion.

There are many possible decks you can use for this format, and there are many different variants that people have tried making, but in my case, I stuck with variants created by Nick Floyd. I simply feel like there have been a lot more playtesting involved in his variants and each spell synergizes well with everything else in the deck.

The Decks

I created some form of hub to show all of the cards and to contain all of the different deck lists together here

Deck number 1 is the classic Forgetful Fish decklist. It is the most popular decklist, which is why I called it Fish of Legends, it is the variant that popularized the format. Here is a primer by Nick Floyd on this list, as well as the format in general.

Deck number 2 is the 2025 refresh. I kept the name simple with Fish of '25. Here is the updated primer by Nick Floyd. This variant is my favorite as it fixes the biggest issue from previous variants, which is Mystical Tutor. Any tutor in a 2 player format with a shared library is flawed because it gives the player perfect information, by seeing one of the 2 secret zones, you can know exactly what's in the other zone, in this case, your opponent's hand. In this variant, Mystical Tutor has been replaced with Narset's Reversal. Apart from perfect information, it also accelerates gameplay by removing having to search in the library.

Deck number 3 is also found in the same primer as the classic variant, it's Nick's original list from 1997. Once again, I simply called it Fish of '97 to keep it simple. This decklist is shorter at 60 cards instead of 80, but is still quite fun to play.

Deck number 4 is the Forget the Fish variant. As there is no fish in this mode, I called it Fish of Lies. Here is the primer. This format is 50 cards and it notably removes the Dandân from the deck, to focus on the second win condition that is making your opponent draw from an empty library. The original list is playable by simply cutting cards from Classic Forgetful Fish, but this decklist uses the advanced variant that also replaces some cards with others. This variant can be played without a life counter as you can't lose from loss of life.

Deck number 5 is Red Hot Seizoned Fish. This variant is also created by Nick Floyd, but is inspired by Miguel Grados's Hot Sushi. I called it Fish of Heat. Here is Nick's primer on this variant. As you might have noticed, this variant is vastly different, being mono-red and using Red Herrings instead of Dandâns. Just as fun as Dandân and is a nice palate cleanser after having played too many games of Forgetful Fish in a row.

Fish of Legends and Fish of '25 combined with Fish of Heat let's us play another format called Blue Fish, Red Fish, 2-Headed Fish. Once again, designed by Nick Floyd, here is the primer. Really fun as it opens up the game to 4 players.

Power and Toughness

I have made a minimum of 2 versions of each creature in the deck as I have 2 ways of showing PT. The first way is the classic MTG way, Dandâns are 4/2, Red Herrings are 2/2. The second way uses a Go-En instead. In the Forgetful Fish variants I have proxied, Dandâns always do 4 damage and their toughness is irrelevant as they always die to any form of damage. This means that the only way 4 is relevant is that it means that it takes 5 hits to defeat your opponent, which is why I used a Go-En. A Go-En is a five yen coin and is considered lucky because Go-En is a homophone of good luck. I thought 5 hits and 5 five yen coins worked out pretty well.

It doesn't work as well with Fish of Heat, but it still works. In Red Hot Seazoned Fish, it takes 10 hits with Red Herrings to defeat your opponent. So the Go-En life counters are doubled, 10 for each player. Slash Panther, being a 4/2, is represented with 2 coins. Every creature in the deck has 2 HP, so everything dies from any source of damage as nothing does less than 2 damage. Only 2 cards affect power and toughness, Dreadmaw's Ire and Mishra's Foundry, both giving +2/+2s. In other words, these cards give an extra coin of damage and the +2 toughness can easily be seen as being able to tank the 2 damage increments. The moment any damage touches a creature and not it's buffs, it means that it's dead so it shouldn't complicate things too much. But if that's too complicated, you can simply choose the version with classic MTG PT.

Now, one thing you might be thinking of is what happens to these Go-En PT when you play Red Fish, Blue Fish, 2-headed Fish? Well I have made a version of Dandâns with 2 coins, so they could easily be printed on the back side of the regular Dandâns used in Forgetful Fish.

Artist Credit

Usually, the way I go about placing the artist credit would be at the bottom left, like on a regular MTG card. This time I decided to place it a lot higher and centered and since every Ukiyo-e artworks has a title, I also added it there. Since I cannot really provide any flavor text for the cards compared to my other decks, I thought this would be a very cool way to add flavor, filling two roles in one.

Ukiyo-e Theme

Now, why did I base all of these proxies around a Ukiyo-e theme? This is because the Koi pond imagery from the secret lair made me think of this. It's also why all of the proxied decks also have the Floating World moniker, as Ukiyo-e stands for pictures of the floating world. Floating World is a Buddhist term for the sorrowful, transitory nature of life, in other words, life is short and painful, it is best to float along and enjoy it. I just think it fits the vibe of the gameplay from these decks.

Alternate Arts

For the art selection, I have made 20 fish for both Dandâns and Red Herrings in a variety of different frame configurations.

Personally, I will print the small textboxes with the Go-En.

For the Dandâns, I am choosing arts 1,2,3,5,6,9,15,17,19 & 20.

For the Red Herrings, I am choosing arts 4,7,8,10,11,12,13,14,16 & 18.

I have also made multiple basic land options, including basic lands that do not appear in any of the decks like Plains, Swamps and Forests.

For the Islands, I am choosing arts 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,17,18,19,20 & 30.

For the Mountains, I am choosing arts 5,6,7 & 8.

Printing

Now there are many different ways to print these decks. The first route would be to print the variants of your choice, 80-60-80-50-80. Printing just one variant would take the least amount of cards.

If you want to print out all of the unique cards available for the blue variants, it would take 132 cards, you could do it in 80 cards by printing double-sided if you really wanted to.

Adding the red variant adds an extra 80 cards no matter what, especially if you have the intention of playing Blue Fish, Red Fish, 2-Headed Fish at one point. If you don't, you could save about 12 more cards in space printing double-sided, but that's so negligible that I think Fish of Heat is better printed separately.

There are also 5 additional decklist flip cards under extras as well as 2 life counter flip cards and 2 life tokens flip cards to cut out.

Personally, I am printing every card individually including the 5 decklists and 4 life counters for a total of 221 cards, but since 2 cards are used to cut out tokens, there will only be 219 cards which should fit nicely in 2 deck boxes.

In Conclusion

You can find all of the renders with bleeding edge, ready to be printed for free here on my Ko-fi and you can also find the G-Drive link here in case Ko-fi doesn't work for you.

TL:DR: Decks here, decklists here

Hello everyone, this is a special post compared to what I usually do. It first started as a side project as I only had the intention to make the 2025 list, but then I started making other variants and at this point I'm calling it project 7.

This project contains a total of 5 different decks. All of the decks have been created by Nick Floyd, the creator of the Forgetful Fish MTG variant, also known as Dandân.

For those who don't know what this variant is, Forgetful Fish is a 2 player game where boths players share a library and graveyard, while keeping their hands and fields separate. The name of the variant comes from the only creature in the deck, Dandân, which is present 10 times, as well as a specific counterspell called Memory Lapse filling the Forgetful part as it's present 8 times in the deck. A lot of people call it Dandân because it's shorter, but I prefer the original name as it better reflects the gameplay in my opinion.

There are many possible decks you can use for this format, and there are many different variants that people have tried making, but in my case, I stuck with variants created by Nick Floyd. I simply feel like there have been a lot more playtesting involved in his variants and each spell synergizes well with everything else in the deck.

The Decks

I created some form of hub to show all of the cards and to contain all of the different deck lists together here

Deck number 1 is the classic Forgetful Fish decklist. It is the most popular decklist, which is why I called it Fish of Legends, it is the variant that popularized the format. Here is a primer by Nick Floyd on this list, as well as the format in general.

Deck number 2 is the 2025 refresh. I kept the name simple with Fish of '25. Here is the updated primer by Nick Floyd. This variant is my favorite as it fixes the biggest issue from previous variants, which is Mystical Tutor. Any tutor in a 2 player format with a shared library is flawed because it gives the player perfect information, by seeing one of the 2 secret zones, you can know exactly what's in the other zone, in this case, your opponent's hand. In this variant, Mystical Tutor has been replaced with Narset's Reversal. Apart from perfect information, it also accelerates gameplay by removing having to search in the library.

Deck number 3 is also found in the same primer as the classic variant, it's Nick's original list from 1997. Once again, I simply called it Fish of '97 to keep it simple. This decklist is shorter at 60 cards instead of 80, but is still quite fun to play.

Deck number 4 is the Forget the Fish variant. As there is no fish in this mode, I called it Fish of Lies. Here is the primer. This format is 50 cards and it notably removes the Dandân from the deck, to focus on the second win condition that is making your opponent draw from an empty library. The original list is playable by simply cutting cards from Classic Forgetful Fish, but this decklist uses the advanced variant that also replaces some cards with others. This variant can be played without a life counter as you can't lose from loss of life.

Deck number 5 is Red Hot Seizoned Fish. This variant is also created by Nick Floyd, but is inspired by Miguel Grados's Hot Sushi. I called it Fish of Heat. Here is Nick's primer on this variant. As you might have noticed, this variant is vastly different, being mono-red and using Red Herrings instead of Dandâns. Just as fun as Dandân and is a nice palate cleanser after having played too many games of Forgetful Fish in a row.

Fish of Legends and Fish of '25 combined with Fish of Heat let's us play another format called Blue Fish, Red Fish, 2-Headed Fish. Once again, designed by Nick Floyd, here is the primer. Really fun as it opens up the game to 4 players.

Power and Toughness

I have made a minimum of 2 versions of each creature in the deck as I have 2 ways of showing PT. The first way is the classic MTG way, Dandâns are 4/2, Red Herrings are 2/2. The second way uses a Go-En instead. In the Forgetful Fish variants I have proxied, Dandâns always do 4 damage and their toughness is irrelevant as they always die to any form of damage. This means that the only way 4 is relevant is that it means that it takes 5 hits to defeat your opponent, which is why I used a Go-En. A Go-En is a five yen coin and is considered lucky because Go-En is a homophone of good luck. I thought 5 hits and 5 five yen coins worked out pretty well.

It doesn't work as well with Fish of Heat, but it still works. In Red Hot Seazoned Fish, it takes 10 hits with Red Herrings to defeat your opponent. So the Go-En life counters are doubled, 10 for each player. Slash Panther, being a 4/2, is represented with 2 coins. Every creature in the deck has 2 HP, so everything dies from any source of damage as nothing does less than 2 damage. Only 2 cards affect power and toughness, Dreadmaw's Ire and Mishra's Foundry, both giving +2/+2s. In other words, these cards give an extra coin of damage and the +2 toughness can easily be seen as being able to tank the 2 damage increments. The moment any damage touches a creature and not it's buffs, it means that it's dead so it shouldn't complicate things too much. But if that's too complicated, you can simply choose the version with classic MTG PT.

Now, one thing you might be thinking of is what happens to these Go-En PT when you play Red Fish, Blue Fish, 2-headed Fish? Well I have made a version of Dandâns with 2 coins, so they could easily be printed on the back side of the regular Dandâns used in Forgetful Fish.

Artist Credit

Usually, the way I go about placing the artist credit would be at the bottom left, like on a regular MTG card. This time I decided to place it a lot higher and centered and since every Ukiyo-e artworks has a title, I also added it there. Since I cannot really provide any flavor text for the cards compared to my other decks, I thought this would be a very cool way to add flavor, filling two roles in one.

Ukiyo-e Theme

Now, why did I base all of these proxies around a Ukiyo-e theme? This is because the Koi pond imagery from the secret lair made me think of this. It's also why all of the proxied decks also have the Floating World moniker, as Ukiyo-e stands for pictures of the floating world. Floating World is a Buddhist term for the sorrowful, transitory nature of life, in other words, life is short and painful, it is best to float along and enjoy it. I just think it fits the vibe of the gameplay from these decks.

Alternate Arts

For the art selection, I have made 20 fish for both Dandâns and Red Herrings in a variety of different frame configurations.

Personally, I will print the small textboxes with the Go-En.

For the Dandâns, I am choosing arts 1,2,3,5,6,9,15,17,19 & 20.

For the Red Herrings, I am choosing arts 4,7,8,10,11,12,13,14,16 & 18.

I have also made multiple basic land options, including basic lands that do not appear in any of the decks like Plains, Swamps and Forests.

For the Islands, I am choosing arts 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,17,18,19,20 & 30.

For the Mountains, I am choosing arts 5,6,7 & 8.

Printing

Now there are many different ways to print these decks. The first route would be to print the variants of your choice, 80-60-80-50-80. Printing just one variant would take the least amount of cards.

If you want to print out all of the unique cards available for the blue variants, it would take 132 cards, you could do it in 80 cards by printing double-sided if you really wanted to.

Adding the red variant adds an extra 80 cards no matter what, especially if you have the intention of playing Blue Fish, Red Fish, 2-Headed Fish at one point. If you don't, you could save about 12 more cards in space printing double-sided, but that's so negligible that I think Fish of Heat is better printed separately.

There are also 5 additional decklist flip cards under extras as well as 2 life counter flip cards and 2 life tokens flip cards to cut out.

Personally, I am printing every card individually including the 5 decklists and 4 life counters for a total of 221 cards, but since 2 cards are used to cut out tokens, there will only be 219 cards which should fit nicely in 2 deck boxes.

In Conclusion

You can find all of the renders with bleeding edge, ready to be printed for free here on my Ko-fi and you can also find the G-Drive link here in case Ko-fi doesn't work for you.

TL;DR: Deck here, decklist here

Hello, I'm glad to announce that I've completed my Spy x Family deck!

This is my 6th project now and it was the longest deck to build, but the more fun as well.

This time, it is an Aikido deck. And before going farther into this, I have to give a shout-out to the Marchesa Aikido discord server. Yes, this deck isn't Queen Marchesa, but the discord server has resources on all kinds of Aikido decks, where people ask questions about specific cards and give feedback on what works and doesn't for them.

Where the idea came from

Going back on topic, his deck has been brewing around the same time I started planning for the Silksong deck around September last year. At first, I wanted to do a Spy x Family deck but wasn't sure on how to build it.

If I was building every character individually, the commander choice would have been easy: Loid as Lazav, Yor as Etrata, etc, but I was a bit stuck on figuring out a commander that could fit the universe in general. I would have liked to have all 3 main characters as the commander, but that is not really possible apart from some really specific partner commanders with a companion to fulfill this. I don't like having multiple characters on one card as well, so I couldn't do that. The options I ended up with were a single commander with either Loid or Anya, or a partner commander with Loid and Yor. I think these were the best possible options to fit the theme of all 3 main characters, while justifying why the others were in the 99.

Since I had all of these thematic restrictions, I thought about the UB's main themes. The one that resonates the most to me and could fit an EDH deck easier was the Cold War theme. I had to find a way to represent escalation without direct confrontation. Like an arms race, where no one wants to hit you first, in fear of reprisal. And that's where I decided to go Aikido.

The Aikido Theme

I had been aware of Queen Marchesa Aikido decks and I always was interested by the core aspects of the playstyle. Appear non-threatening, avoid unnecessary actions by letting your opponents deal with your other opponents and use their strengths against them when it's time to strike. What I was not fully aware of was all of the potential commanders that could fit this playstyle and the ones that really caught my attention were The Second Doctor and Donna Noble.

Usually, as I have never watched Doctor Who, I wouldn't even look at these 2 commander options as I don't really care about that UB, but with the world of proxy, their gameplay mechanics are all I really care about.

Once I chose the commanders, I built many versions of this deck which I playtested multiple times to make sure it runs well but doesn't get too cutthroat. I had a version at one point with cards like Nils, Agitator Ant and Noble Heritage, but in the end I couldn't justify their inclusion against such fun tools like Delney and Displacer Kitten.

The Frames

So the big question some might have seeing this: the frames, why are they all so green? That specific shade of green is present on every book of Spy x Family and a lot of promo material from the anime, as it is everywhere, it is also everywhere in the deck.

The first card type I started working on were the creatures. My goal was to have the manga volume covers in a MTG card format. So I used the art of each character that is represented on a cover, then I added the page and picture design present on the back of the book to have the card's text as well as a way to show the color of the card. I also used the picture as an excuse to use more art from the manga.

The top part of the card is the same on every card type, I used that big, bold font that's present on every cover to represent the name, and the numbered circle used to identify the volume number as the mana symbols. In the mana symbols, I used some specific logos for each color.

This is where I had to change one of my initial idea, at first, I wanted the SSS symbol for white, the WISE symbol for blue and the GAS symbol for red with the intention to have the Eden symbol for the single green token. The problem here is that GAS has one potential logo in the manga, but this was not present in the same scene in the anime, so I am thinking that the potential logo might not be it. So the alternative I came up with is to switch SSS from order (W) to violence (R), keep WISE as intel (U), switch Eden from traditionalism (G) to altruism (W), and added Berlint as green just because it's the last logo I could think of. Whenever GAS gets a logo, it will have black because they're assassins.

For the land frames, I wanted to evoke the design of a postcard, with the rules text being the back of the postcard and the image frame being the front. So I made a generic looking postcard design around each image and added symbols and color elements to make sure the color of the cards were properly identifiable.

For the artifact frames, I kinda winged it tbh. Had some cool looking vertical art with the talismans, so I started making a vertical frame for them and I ended up using it for all artifacts as I thought it looked really cool and unique. The middle line element is a design element present on some supplemental books of the series in either the light novel or one of the anime/manga bts kind of collection. I forgot.

For the rest of the cards, I kept the bottom postcard as I liked the design for its mix of simplicity and ability to convey all of the game elements properly, I just changed the image frame to a different design which I found in one of the aforementioned supplemental book.

Black and White vs. Colored Art

Now, another one of the big questions after the green backgrounds: why take the effort to double everything with the black and white art? Actually, I haven't watched the anime,—I think I can count on one hand the amount of anime I've watched—but I am up to date with the manga, so I chose to work with black and white art in part because of familiarity and on another part because I prefer the more detailed art of Tatsuya Endo over the art from the anime, which is less detailed, but better made with movement in mind.

The funny thing is that now that I have placed all of the cards in a Google Drive, I think that I prefer the colored land arts, they are still backgrounds from the anime and look really good together. I will be keeping the black and white instants, sorceries, enchantments and tokens for my print though, but I still enjoy that working on this project changed my initial manga art purist mindset.

Flavor Highlights

Now this is my favorite section to talk about, the flavor highlights!

One card I absolutely wanted to keep in the deck, even though I would have removed from the deck without the flavor, is Edgin Larcenous Lutist. First of all this card gives foretell which is literally Bond's power, but what sealed the deal for me was that the universe within version of the card is called Bohn. Cone on, Bond/Bohn, the name is so similar! The foretell token idea with the static background was also something I had in mind from the start.

Something else I really liked that I managed to get working is the Sol Ring art. The art with the close-up of the hands with the ring is a different panel from the art with Loid proposing to Yor and the explosion in the background. I managed to overlay the hands in front of the explosions and I was glad it worked like it did as it is the most iconic "ring" of the series.

Comeuppance was one of the last cards for which I've managed to find an idea for, and I find it to be really flavorful, the B&W art even more so as the event picture is even more deserved.

The Rad counters turning into Sabotage counters was a happy accident, at first I wanted to base it around an event with a mole in the SSS and have a mole counter, but a sabotage counter feels so much better than my original idea and fits the theme of the deck very well.

And last little info from the process, when I was making the deck, volume 17 wasn't announced yet, I wanted to have generous plunderer as Lady Tonitrus with the treasure being the tonitrus bolts but I couldn't find any art that would work, so I gave up and used Chloe for that card at first. When they announced and showed Vol.17, I made that card immediately, it was exactly what I needed to fit the card properly and I was pretty lucky that she was the cover character.

In Conclusion

You can find the 100-card playable deck with bleeding edge, in (mostly) black and white or in color, ready to be printed for free here on my Ko-fi and you can also find the G-Drive link here in case Ko-fi doesn't work for you.

I already am working on a few upcoming decks and the next one is looking to be really fun!

TL;DR: Deck here, decklist here

Hello, I'm glad to announce that I've completed my Spy x Family deck!

This is my 6th project now and it was the longest deck to build, but the more fun as well.

This time, it is an Aikido deck. And before going farther into this, I have to give a shout-out to the Marchesa Aikido discord server. Yes, this deck isn't Queen Marchesa, but the discord server has resources on all kinds of Aikido decks, where people ask questions about specific cards and give feedback on what works and doesn't for them.

Where the idea came from

Going back on topic, his deck has been brewing around the same time I started planning for the Silksong deck around September last year. At first, I wanted to do a Spy x Family deck but wasn't sure on how to build it.

If I was building every character individually, the commander choice would have been easy: Loid as Lazav, Yor as Etrata, etc, but I was a bit stuck on figuring out a commander that could fit the universe in general. I would have liked to have all 3 main characters as the commander, but that is not really possible apart from some really specific partner commanders with a companion to fulfill this. I don't like having multiple characters on one card as well, so I couldn't do that. The options I ended up with were a single commander with either Loid or Anya, or a partner commander with Loid and Yor. I think these were the best possible options to fit the theme of all 3 main characters, while justifying why the others were in the 99.

Since I had all of these thematic restrictions, I thought about the UB's main themes. The one that resonates the most to me and could fit an EDH deck easier was the Cold War theme. I had to find a way to represent escalation without direct confrontation. Like an arms race, where no one wants to hit you first, in fear of reprisal. And that's where I decided to go Aikido.

The Aikido Theme

I had been aware of Queen Marchesa Aikido decks and I always was interested by the core aspects of the playstyle. Appear non-threatening, avoid unnecessary actions by letting your opponents deal with your other opponents and use their strengths against them when it's time to strike. What I was not fully aware of was all of the potential commanders that could fit this playstyle and the ones that really caught my attention were The Second Doctor and Donna Noble.

Usually, as I have never watched Doctor Who, I wouldn't even look at these 2 commander options as I don't really care about that UB, but with the world of proxy, their gameplay mechanics are all I really care about.

Once I chose the commanders, I built many versions of this deck which I playtested multiple times to make sure it runs well but doesn't get too cutthroat. I had a version at one point with cards like Nils, Agitator Ant and Noble Heritage, but in the end I couldn't justify their inclusion against such fun tools like Delney and Displacer Kitten.

The Frames

So the big question some might have seeing this: the frames, why are they all so green? That specific shade of green is present on every book of Spy x Family and a lot of promo material from the anime, as it is everywhere, it is also everywhere in the deck.

The first card type I started working on were the creatures. My goal was to have the manga volume covers in a MTG card format. So I used the art of each character that is represented on a cover, then I added the page and picture design present on the back of the book to have the card's text as well as a way to show the color of the card. I also used the picture as an excuse to use more art from the manga.

The top part of the card is the same on every card type, I used that big, bold font that's present on every cover to represent the name, and the numbered circle used to identify the volume number as the mana symbols. In the mana symbols, I used some specific logos for each color.

This is where I had to change one of my initial idea, at first, I wanted the SSS symbol for white, the WISE symbol for blue and the GAS symbol for red with the intention to have the Eden symbol for the single green token. The problem here is that GAS has one potential logo in the manga, but this was not present in the same scene in the anime, so I am thinking that the potential logo might not be it. So the alternative I came up with is to switch SSS from order (W) to violence (R), keep WISE as intel (U), switch Eden from traditionalism (G) to altruism (W), and added Berlint as green just because it's the last logo I could think of. Whenever GAS gets a logo, it will have black because they're assassins.

For the land frames, I wanted to evoke the design of a postcard, with the rules text being the back of the postcard and the image frame being the front. So I made a generic looking postcard design around each image and added symbols and color elements to make sure the color of the cards were properly identifiable.

For the artifact frames, I kinda winged it tbh. Had some cool looking vertical art with the talismans, so I started making a vertical frame for them and I ended up using it for all artifacts as I thought it looked really cool and unique. The middle line element is a design element present on some supplemental books of the series in either the light novel or one of the anime/manga bts kind of collection. I forgot.

For the rest of the cards, I kept the bottom postcard as I liked the design for its mix of simplicity and ability to convey all of the game elements properly, I just changed the image frame to a different design which I found in one of the aforementioned supplemental book.

Black and White vs. Colored Art

Now, another one of the big questions after the green backgrounds: why take the effort to double everything with the black and white art? Actually, I haven't watched the anime,—I think I can count on one hand the amount of anime I've watched—but I am up to date with the manga, so I chose to work with black and white art in part because of familiarity and on another part because I prefer the more detailed art of Tatsuya Endo over the art from the anime, which is less detailed, but better made with movement in mind.

The funny thing is that now that I have placed all of the cards in a Google Drive, I think that I prefer the colored land arts, they are still backgrounds from the anime and look really good together. I will be keeping the black and white instants, sorceries, enchantments and tokens for my print though, but I still enjoy that working on this project changed my initial manga art purist mindset.

Flavor Highlights

Now this is my favorite section to talk about, the flavor highlights!

One card I absolutely wanted to keep in the deck, even though I would have removed from the deck without the flavor, is Edgin Larcenous Lutist. First of all this card gives foretell which is literally Bond's power, but what sealed the deal for me was that the universe within version of the card is called Bohn. Cone on, Bond/Bohn, the name is so similar! The foretell token idea with the static background was also something I had in mind from the start.

Something else I really liked that I managed to get working is the Sol Ring art. The art with the close-up of the hands with the ring is a different panel from the art with Loid proposing to Yor and the explosion in the background. I managed to overlay the hands in front of the explosions and I was glad it worked like it did as it is the most iconic "ring" of the series.

Comeuppance was one of the last cards for which I've managed to find an idea for, and I find it to be really flavorful, the B&W art even more so as the event picture is even more deserved.

The Rad counters turning into Sabotage counters was a happy accident, at first I wanted to base it around an event with a mole in the SSS and have a mole counter, but a sabotage counter feels so much better than my original idea and fits the theme of the deck very well.

And last little info from the process, when I was making the deck, volume 17 wasn't announced yet, I wanted to have generous plunderer as Lady Tonitrus with the treasure being the tonitrus bolts but I couldn't find any art that would work, so I gave up and used Chloe for that card at first. When they announced and showed Vol.17, I made that card immediately, it was exactly what I needed to fit the card properly and I was pretty lucky that she was the cover character.

In Conclusion

You can find the 100-card playable deck with bleeding edge, in (mostly) black and white or in color, ready to be printed for free here on my Ko-fi and you can also find the G-Drive link here in case Ko-fi doesn't work for you.

I already am working on a few upcoming decks and the next one is looking to be really fun!

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to share something I've been working on and I thought this might be appreciated here!

I make custom proxy commander decks and I am proud to show the printed results of my Silksong knight tribal deck.

The deck uses Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir as the commander and the entire deck has cards from the world of Hollow Knight. You can entomb the Knight (Haakon, Stromgald Scourge) out of your deck to play him, you can have the Collector (Haytham Kenway) exile and keep your opponents' creatures, you can have a Chivalric Alliance with Shakra and do so much more thematic stuff that fits the characters and story of Hollow Knight and Silksong.

Right after I completed that project, I heard about ProxyPrintery and how they can print cards with partial foil, so I jumped on the occasion to configure my cards to use that functionality to its full potential.

This video is what the partial foiling looks like with that deck and their more recent card stock, IMO, it looks pretty cool.

This is in fact my 3rd proxy deck so far, I had made a TMNT ninja deck before the turtles officially joined MTG with the UB set, and an X-Men deck with Havi, the All-Father, based on resurrection with the Krakoa era of the X-Men in mind.

Since then, I've made other custom decks with that partial foil configuration as well:

• A mono-black Kaervek, the Punisher control deck with Darth Vader as the commander, each card is based around Vader, so it's a bit more specific than just a Star Wars deck. Killing creatures left and right really makes you feel like Vader.
• An Azorius voltron spellslinger with Lyse Hext or Alisaie and Alphinaud Leveilleur, playing the role of the main Huntrix trio from K-Pop Demon Hunters. This deck really used the partial foil to it's full potential, I built that one partly because of it. Rumi's and the demons' tattoos glow with the foil, while Mira and Zoey have the patterns on their clothes shine as well.

Also, pretty soon, I'll have completed my next project, which is a Jeskai Aikido deck with The Second Doctor and Donna Noble as Loid and Yor from Spy x Family, I've prepared this deck with options for the art from the manga or the anime depending on everyone's preference.

Here's a Google Drive for each deck with all of the images for the cards for those who are interested to look at, or print them:

1. TMNT
2. X-Men
3. Silksong
4. Darth Vader
5. K-Pop Demon Hunters

Let me know what you think!