For casual games kitchen-table Magic, Commander pods, and playtesting a deck before you buy singles proxies are widely accepted, and most casual playgroups are happy to allow them
There have been some attempts at a kind of Standard scam deck with prototype creatures, and I think this is an interesting potential improvement
This has turned out to be especially troublesome for tribal decks like Humans, Goblins and similar strategies which used to be played in Modern but have since dwindled in prevalence
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Thats definitely the joke, given how the pose references Even Amundsens art for Arcades, the Strategist
Even better, it asks you to sacrifice the creatures you put counters on, which opens you up to lots of nonsense with The Ozolith
