A physical stand-in for a card — either a recreation of an existing card or something fully custom — printed and finished to look and feel like a real card. It's not an official product from any game's publisher. See How Proxy Cards Are Actually Made for the full explanation.

Yes. Original characters, custom DON!! cards, tokens, and full custom decks are all things I regularly make — not just recreations of existing cards.

Yes, and it's the usual starting point for a custom piece. See How to Prepare Artwork for general guidance on what works best — but if you're not sure, send it anyway and we'll figure it out together.

Always. You see a proof and approve it before anything gets printed for real, and you see photos or video of the finished card again before it ships.

Yes — printed on holographic vinyl and mounted to a rigid core, not foil-stamped. See How Foil Trading Cards Are Made for how that's different from foil stamping, or Standard vs Foil for help deciding between the two.

It depends on the project — a single card is naturally quicker than a full deck. Turnaround gets discussed as part of the initial conversation once the project's scope is clear, so there's a real timeline instead of a guess.

Standard trading card size, matching the games they're made for.

They're built to be sleeved and handled like a normal card. Whether proxies are allowed at a given table or event is between you and whoever's running it — that's a house-rules and local-event-policy question, not something ProxyLair can answer on your behalf.

Yes — full custom decks are one of the things ProxyLair regularly makes, alongside single cards, leaders, characters, DON!! cards, and tokens.

Finished cards are packaged and shipped, usually by UPS, after you've approved photos or video of the actual finished product.

Every card goes through a proof-and-approval step before printing and a final check before shipping specifically to catch problems before they reach you. If something's ever actually wrong with what arrives, reach out and it'll get sorted out.

Send a message with whatever you've got — an idea, a reference image, or just a rough concept. Every project starts as a conversation, not a form to fill out. Contact page.