An important notice about proxies

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Originally Posted by georgjorge

It might be argued that giving away much-wanted proxies as door prizes is helping Wizards more than harming them, by providing incentives to participate in tournaments (for which you need, you know, real Magic cards).

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You can find other incentives for participating in tournaments that don't involve copyright infringement. And as far as proxies go, a Revised basic Plains and a fine-point Sharpie work just as well.

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Originally Posted by KillemallCFH

I'm pretty sure it already is; they just haven't actively gone after the developers (probably because there isn't really any money involved).

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And because they're in Russia, and it would be a complete waste of money and time?

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Originally Posted by KillemallCFH

I'm pretty sure it already is; they just haven't actively gone after the developers (probably because there isn't really any money involved).

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The program itself isn't copyright infringement -- it's a pretty generic card game simulator. You can also play WoW TCG, for example.

The more grey area is the card lists -- the card images are most certainly copyright, the flavor text is possibly copyright, card names and card (rules) text are probably not copyright since game rules and words or short phrases generally aren't copyrightable. The card names may be trademark, although there's no (TM), so maybe not.