Tokens

What up y'all
皆の衆ごきげんよう

Quite unlike G-Ray's post on the rather lesser known properties of Tokens,

Today's post will be about the much more visible properties of tokens:

How they look!



Pictured above are the some of the tokens I use.

Today's post is about the few ways to get great looking tokens with little to no effort on your part.

You can, of course, use face down cards or some cards from your graveyard or even dice as your tokens, but wheres the fun in that?

Method 1:

Print out token, and cut and slip in front of card. Add a sleeve, and its done!

This, whilst being the easiest method for decent-good looking tokens, its also the most widely used.

When you want to stand out, however, this isnt how you can do it.

Being the easiest also means that the most people do it.

Also, without a good printer, it looks bad.


Method 2:

Use real Konami Tokens!

Why not?

Only downside is that you cant customize the art.

Which is where


Method 3:

Comes in: Thinking outside the box. More specifically, outside the box that houses the token's picture.

First, take a token.

Using a modelling knife or any knife in general, cut around the card's picture.

This allows you to pop out the picture of the card whilst retaining the token frame.

Then, place the frame in front of a card with the image of your choice, and place both of them in a sleeve(preferablly one that holds them together tightly.

And then, you have tokens with the image of your choice(possibly foil), without damaging the card itself.

Tokens are worthless.


Lastly, option 4:

Not using the card image at all.

Well, not quite.

The last method I use is to take the picture sleeves that Konami produces just about every set, and use THAT at the token image.

The drawback to this is that you require a layer of sleeve on top of it, so it covers whatever you use as the card to provide the token with volume and strength.

The end result is a shiny looking, full sized monster image.


Thats all for today.

I hope to see of what other people use for their tokens. Do post them up on your blog.

/ラウゼス