I started with the Power Reserve starter deck
And one or two other random Porygon cards I had picked up for fun at a vintage toy store a few years earlier.) I bought myself a light blue binder from Staples and named it The Beak. From Base Set through Sword & Shield: Lost Origin , I had 110 different cards I needed to find
This means that if you have, say, a white creature you control on the battlefield, and your opponent casts a creature of any other color, they either have to pay double in some sense or watch their creature get countered
Some argue that you should only use proxies for cards that, due to scarcity, have reached a ludicrous price on the secondary market (check out our guide to the most expensive magic cards for some of those) or for Reserved List cards that are almost impossible to get hold of
Each of these covers some pretty fundamental ground, and if youre playing in a precon-only meta, you cant go wrong with any one of these
It really drives home just how unnaturally agile a creature is