Purchasing a Cube can be more of an investment than other options on this list
If youd like something nicer, you can print your own using online templates or design tools, then cut and sleeve them for sturdiness
You can give your stuff a +1/+1 counter and flying for 0 loyalty, and then -3 to destroy a creature an opponent controls with power 3 or greater
Actually, there's no ethical or acceptable reason to make "proxies" to pass the light test, bend test, and other well-known tests to weed out fake cards because there's no ethical or acceptable use of proxies that requires the proxy to be as similar to a real card as possiblea Sharpie on a basic Island does the job just as well and without any of the legal and moral issues
The interactive online tutorial will take you through all the basics, and then the forces of Middle-earth will be yours to command
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts