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I have made up some custom MtG cards, and I am trying to get physical copies made (to mess with my friends, and for casual use). Does anyone know where I can get them made?

Disclamer: These cards will be clearly fake, and for personal use only. I'm not trying pull any shenanigans here. In the interest of openness, a graphical list of the cards can be found here. The back will be a custom back that I am still working on...

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print pictures of cards. glue them to real cards. – Sam I am Feb 11 at 15:16
Putting them in opaque sleeves in front of a real card of the same color in the way to go. The massive savings I got from proxying justified paying $35 for 600 sleeves in my case. :) – CrazyJugglerDrummer Feb 17 at 17:34

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I've printed decks to playtest with friends before buying the actual cards. I just went to a local print shop. Everywhere has one.

I didn't bother printing backs. I just sleeved the cards. For rigidity, I backed them with real cards or those silly advertisement cards you get in booster packs. As long as you do that for every card in the deck, it should shuffle correctly.

I use the images from magiccards.info since they have a higher resolution than Gatherer's. To get the cards to display right, I create an .html file with the following content and print it to a PDF using my browser.

<style>
IMG {
   height: 3.46875in;
   width:  2.46875in;
}
</style>

<img src="image1.jpg"
><img src="image1.jpg"
><img src="image1.jpg"
><img src="image1.jpg"
><img src="image2.jpg"
><img src="image2.jpg"
><img src="image2.jpg"
><img src="image2.jpg"
...
>
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I've added to my answer. – ikegami Feb 10 at 0:07

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