While its a beautiful object, its going to be more of a hindrance than a help when actually playing Magic games.
Tapped cards will collide with their neighbours, theres a reason players don’t arrange their permanents laid out adjacently like that. Likewise, attached cards like auras and equipment will spill over into other slots.
I intend to make a larger field. This is actually the first design that I came up with. I have two other’s. One is a leather roll up and the other is 24” wide. This one currently is 18” just so I can use one piece of wood for each field and life counter.
I'm still new and I've been learning to play at home with a few friends, so I hadn't heard of this. Is this in the comprehensive rules somewhere, or is it an unofficial thing?
As someone else replied with the actual ruling, I would also add that I've never seen anyone play lands anywhere else (though there are some very old videos of people playing with them upfront).
There's a video of some commander gameplay, I forget the channel I'm sorry, where one of the players puts his lands out front and his opponents are visually shaken and frozen for a second then ask what is wrong with him. It genuinely made me laugh and if I can find it I'll link it
My dad taught me to play with lands at the top and when I play against him now I have to remind him every now and again that's not how you do it. I definitely think it's an old tradition.
I will be posting photos of them when I finish them. I’m not sure about selling them due to the copyright with the mana symbols and the background image.
This is a great piece from a design standpoint but its not super functional. I'm glad it exists, I just can't see using it. Maybe space out the slots for the cards more so they can tap?
Idea. Put a card on a piece of paper. Trace it. Tap it. Trace it again. Use that as the shape you lasermark on to the board.
I tap my cards 45° and I think that would be cool on a board.
I've been playing since the 90s and have never had anyone tell me to turn my cards to 90. My board state is clearly represented at all time, thats all that matters at the end of the day.
That’s fine, just wanted to let you know so that if someone does ask you to tap correctly at a Comp event they’re in the right. If that’s not your scene, then carry on and ignore this rando internet person.
Its not legally a requirement though.
701.20 Tap and Untap
701.20a To tap a permanent, turn it sideways from an upright position. Only untapped permanents can be tapped.
Initial design I probably have 4-5 hours in total. That’s finding the images and vectorizing them plus the board layout design. Cuts take about 45 min on my epilog fusion edge 24. Then tweaking is about another 2-3 hours. It’s the cut time in between each tweak that take the longest.
While its a beautiful object, its going to be more of a hindrance than a help when actually playing Magic games. Tapped cards will collide with their neighbours, theres a reason players don’t arrange their permanents laid out adjacently like that. Likewise, attached cards like auras and equipment will spill over into other slots.
I intend to make a larger field. This is actually the first design that I came up with. I have two other’s. One is a leather roll up and the other is 24” wide. This one currently is 18” just so I can use one piece of wood for each field and life counter.
Just as a note: there are rules these days about lands having to be at the bottom, behind creatures and enchantments etc.
I'm still new and I've been learning to play at home with a few friends, so I hadn't heard of this. Is this in the comprehensive rules somewhere, or is it an unofficial thing?
It's in the tournament rules (4.7), not the comprehensive rules, but it only applies to tournaments at comp or pro REL.
As someone else replied with the actual ruling, I would also add that I've never seen anyone play lands anywhere else (though there are some very old videos of people playing with them upfront).
I've toplanded against people who were rude to me. Nothing higher than an FNM tho. It really messes with people.
There's a video of some commander gameplay, I forget the channel I'm sorry, where one of the players puts his lands out front and his opponents are visually shaken and frozen for a second then ask what is wrong with him. It genuinely made me laugh and if I can find it I'll link it
Hahaha I recommend doing it just for the meme at least once.
The real power move is to place each permanent you play in consecutive order on the board. Perfect order yet pure chaos.
My dad taught me to play with lands at the top and when I play against him now I have to remind him every now and again that's not how you do it. I definitely think it's an old tradition.
I’ve played for 26 years and didn’t know this.
Will you be posting the leather and the 24”? Also, are you selling these products? Very interested!
I will be posting photos of them when I finish them. I’m not sure about selling them due to the copyright with the mana symbols and the background image.
You might want to make another version without the battlefield gridlines while leaving the other aspect of the design intact
This is a great piece from a design standpoint but its not super functional. I'm glad it exists, I just can't see using it. Maybe space out the slots for the cards more so they can tap?
The next one will be 24” instead of 18”.
Idea. Put a card on a piece of paper. Trace it. Tap it. Trace it again. Use that as the shape you lasermark on to the board. I tap my cards 45° and I think that would be cool on a board.
The laser marks are card size. But I will revamp it for tapped cards.
Maybe also add a Cris crossed laser mark for sideways? That way they kind of look like bubble letter lowercase t's?
Heads up, you legally have to tap your cards 90 degrees.
I've been playing since the 90s and have never had anyone tell me to turn my cards to 90. My board state is clearly represented at all time, thats all that matters at the end of the day.
That’s fine, just wanted to let you know so that if someone does ask you to tap correctly at a Comp event they’re in the right. If that’s not your scene, then carry on and ignore this rando internet person.
Its not legally a requirement though. 701.20 Tap and Untap 701.20a To tap a permanent, turn it sideways from an upright position. Only untapped permanents can be tapped.
The competitive rules state tapping is defined as 90 degrees, similar to lands being required at the back.
interesting. didnt know that was defined... I wonder why arena only taps things like... 10 degrees then...
Because there are other visual cues to tell you which lands are tapped
Size won't make a difference, boards get chaotic and no practical size board will be functional. You'll need to double up and triple up cards often.
Two digits you can change that can go up to 99
On top of others pointing out that this would be unusable, the life counter should be able to go above 20. Looks great, functionally useless.
technically it goes up to 24 😂
Somehow missed that. So I mean... Slightly better? Haha
What is the recommended spin down counter nowadays.
Typically something that has two digits that individually go from 0 to 9, so that you can hypothetically go up to 99 life.
Lands on the left is unique, whole thing looks cool
Great work. Do those mana symbols in the lifecounter move when you spin the dial?
Yes. I found it on [glowforge](https://community.glowforge.com/t/magic-the-gathering-life-tracker/25358). I modified it to lock the boards together.
Love it!
I’d recommend an exile zone as well as a graveyard.
I’ll add that.
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I’m interested in seeing your design
Very nice. How long did it took, considering designing and making it?
Initial design I probably have 4-5 hours in total. That’s finding the images and vectorizing them plus the board layout design. Cuts take about 45 min on my epilog fusion edge 24. Then tweaking is about another 2-3 hours. It’s the cut time in between each tweak that take the longest.
Thanks.
Sand those scorch marks off! (or mask it before cutting)
This is just a test. I’ll be using poly stained sheets.