Do these cardboard inserts have an official use?

[u/jaxrains]

These are from the FRA bundle, but every time I get them I’m kinda like “huh neat” then chuck them in the trash. They show up in prerelease kits too and I’ve only really seen people use them as like tokens but is that officially what they’re for? Or are they just like little bonuses if they were planning on printing extra cardboard they were kinda like “oh let’s do something cute and make it so you can punch out some art” or something. I’m asking if there’s an “official use” for these because the small punch outs are obviously stuff like deathtouch counters, +1/+1 counters and such and just wanted to know if these bigger ones are supposed to be used for something.

[u/SkritzTwoFace]

not really. I mostly see them used as dividers in your prerelease kit to keep different piles of cards separate.

[u/jaxrains → u/SkritzTwoFace]

Now dividers are probably 100% what they’re for. I just threw these away or else I would test it to see if the bigger ones fit in the bundle. I totally forgot that considering I use them as dividers in my prerelease kits 😭

[u/Soy_un_oiseau → u/jaxrains]

The large ones should fit in bundles. The smaller ones I think are intended to be used as tokens

[u/FrostedMiniMemes → u/Soy_un_oiseau]

Just realized I should've been making custom trigger trackers out of the smaller ones this whole time! What a waste

[u/Soy_un_oiseau → u/FrostedMiniMemes]

That’s actually a good idea for trigger-heavy decks! I’ve been thinking of making custom ones but these would work fine as well

[u/JfrogFun → u/FrostedMiniMemes]

the smaller ones are also, i believe, perfectly sized to function as Room markers. in fact the ones from Duskmorn were printed with a door that said "Locked" so you can cover the side that's not active, and remove it when you "unlock the door"

[u/HornedTurtle1212 → u/Soy_un_oiseau]

The big ones do fit in the bundle boxes as card dividers, they are the same size as the dividers that come in prerelease kits

[u/Beautiful-Dirt2540 → u/jaxrains]

Do you ever think the crap cardboard feels bad when we throw it away and then double sleeve the fancy cardboard?

[u/drakmordis → u/Beautiful-Dirt2540]

Pass it to the left, homie

[u/Jaccount → u/Beautiful-Dirt2540]

I think the fancy cardboard gets bothered when I use coin capsules (fancier plastic than sleeves) for the punch out counters because it adds a more satisfying heft and clickiness to the counters.

[u/goblin_in_a_suit → u/Jaccount]

Oooh. Now that’s an idea. What size fits best for these?

[u/Monstot → u/jaxrains]

They fit the bundle lol sorry for your loss

[u/_Bank_On_It_ → u/SkritzTwoFace]

I was just about to post that I’ve used them exclusively as card dividers.

[u/Dennarb]

They're a good low fat alternative to eating your cards

[u/CrispAutumnCabin → u/Dennarb]

But you have to compensate for the low-fat by adding a lot of sugar and stickers, otherwise it’s pretty bad.

According to a friend, I mean.

[u/avocado-slasher]

I use them as card separators but honestly I see most people just throw them away

[u/cheesemoney84]

Dividers for splitting up bulk you store in bundle boxes or similar boxes

[u/jdhovland]

Listed as "card separator" in the materials iirc.

[u/FoxTheDreamer]

Love to use those as deck covers for my deck boxes

[u/CyanicYoshi]

If my pre-release deck generates a lot of tokens or a token type that I didn't get the proper token for, I usually use them as the stand in for that token. Otherwise, they're just meant to be separators

[u/Stone_Reign]

Nope, use them unofficially wherever you like!

[u/sunchow]

the one on the left is for various reminders (covering used part of card, locked room, signify on an adventure, anything really) and the one on the right is deckbox divider

[u/MikemkPK]

Left can be used as a generic planeswalker emblem. Right can be art for whatever you use art for.

[u/AleksanderSteelhart]

I double side tape them to my cabinet in my crafting area.

The Cabinets above house all the bundle boxes I have.

[u/Economy-Temporary-90]

I use them as placeholder tokens if I dont have the token or too lazy to fish em out

[u/austin-geek]

They are the right size to hold the lid of a bundle box at the correct height, for when the little cardboard insert in the lid inevitably fails to catch the sides. Same size as the punch-out divider inserts which come with the bundle. I put one in the front/back/middle of the cards in the bundle box, since it’s taller than regular cards it protects them. 

[u/z4ck38]

The official use is for filling the trash can at your lgs.

[u/NovoMyJogo]

Bookmarks!

[u/LordNoct13]

I glued magnets to the back of the smaller ones and stuck them on my fridge

[u/drakejcl]

I use them as decor in my game room

[u/Evening_Series_5452]

Large one is a divider for the box and small one can be used in room cards

[u/IAmTheBestIan]

I use them mostly as tokens when I'm playtesting a deck and haven't bought the right tokens yet.

In reality, they're just garbage.

[u/Neltarim]

There's deck boxes with a window to view the first card

[u/Keokuk37]

anything can be used as game tokens

but if this art fits idk, usually not

yes, it is better as a divider than a token

[u/Specific-Parsnip9001]

Used to be used to divide your sideboard from your maindeck. Now everybody plays Commander so sideboards don't exist.

20-sided spindowns used to be really great for tracking your life total as well, now they're 20 sides too short.

[u/GlassEngines]

I use these and the art cards and put them in my clear phone case.

[u/michaeltward]

Dividers.

I’ve only been playing since foundations release, I’ve kept all these from pre release kits plus the 8 face cards from my jumpstarts (first cards I ever got) and all my art cards and various punch outs like the round hobbit door from that pre release and I’m going to lay them out in a cool way in a picture frame at some point.
To me it’s just a different slightly bigger art card.

[u/flaming_geyser]

I keep the big ones as card dividers and toss the smaller ones

[u/Cast2828]

They stop the glass bottles from smashing when I drop them into my blue box.

[u/june-v-bloom]

The Bigger ones fit in the bundles as card dividers while the smaller ones are "Stand-In Tokens", shaped like smaller cards to take up less board space and shaped like a card to let people identify tap states. I've found it incredibly easy to use these and just say "this one's a treasure token" during games.

[u/SeriousLeemk2]

Nothing in the game has official use except cards with magic the gathering back. Everything else in the game can be represented however else you want.

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/SeriousLeemk2]

Werewolves in shambles

[u/SeriousLeemk2 → u/Approximation_Doctor]

Well, yeah, that's why they made the stupid checkmark cards, lmao.

You are right that flip cards technically don't have a magic back but are official game pieces.

[u/Aussie_Aussie_No_Mi]

They are dividers. In lieu of the actual box dividers that used to come in the bundles

[u/authoridad]

I put them in my bundle boxes to divide cards from that set by color. During and immediately after a prerelease, I use the one that comes in that box to separate the deck(s) I made there from the rest in case I want to play with them again later.

[u/Blenderhead36]

Looking fuckin' sick.

[u/SuperSmashSean_DX]

They're dividers for your collection

[u/JMooooooooo]

Their official use is being a full outer box. Outer box has its purpose - shows if contents have been tampered with, since it has to be destroyed to get inside (at least with prerelease kits, never seen bundle), but this means all the cardboard that goes into outer box inevitably turns into trash. So to decrease amount of waste produced from ripping apart outer box, they turned parts of those boxes into punch-outs. If somebody finds any use for them, great, mission accomplished. If they don't, it was going into trash anyway.

[u/Cbone06]

Others already mentioned it but these are great for dividers in your boxes. While prerelease happens for a set, I always ask around since everyone tosses them.

They’re somewhat flimsy but it’s cool to have a MTG divider and they get the job done.

[u/Shrike034]

I'm just lost as to what the big circle cut out is supposed to be used for. I could only think of day night, but that can't be right in reality fracture.

[u/Thantrax → u/Shrike034]

The circle is the one I've been wondering about too. My thought was perhaps it's supposed to be a one-use coaster? But that's the best Idea I've got.

[u/KuromanKuro]

Dividers in boxes or tokens.

[u/HypnoticRobot]

Theyre card dividers, the bundle box is meant to be storage

[u/SAstronomer]

If you collect one hundred (100) of them, you get to pick one (1) nuclear weapon from the United States (US) nuclear arsenal to take home and keep. You do have to pay shipping and handling costs tho so idk if its worth it.

[u/mulletstation]

Tee pee for your bunghole

[u/classic-plasmid]

The one on the right would be helpful as a divider for decks. I've heard of people using ones like the left one as generic creature tokens

[u/TerrainofWar]

Intended as dividers. Most are easy to cut down to card size and use as tokens. I turned my Jace divider from the pre release into a Jace token using a label maker. Don't see why you couldn't do it for these. Only downside is the text on garruk is wordy and would take up a lot of space 

[u/lordx665]

Duskmourn Door trackers

[u/GeneratorLeon]

I use them as dividers sometimes when building my decks or sorting cards (and I usually have a lot of that going on at once).

[u/DrShift44]

I officially throw then in the recycling bin 

[u/Other-Case5309]

not really, dividers for whatever you put inside the bundle box, the small ones i've been keeping 1 or 2 with my dice for people who play room cards, since it perfectly covers the closed room

[u/odanhammer]

It's something they could easily not include to cut down on costs. Maybe they could have done this vs removing everything else people actually do want

[u/Spare_Blueberries]

They are proxies?!

[u/DontStopNowBaby]

To use as divider in those large card storage boxes.

[u/FinAdda]

Use them as dividers.

[u/Spuigles]

Large one fits in bundle boxes and deck boxes as seperators. Small ones are meant for emblems or any other kind of markers. You dont always get the right tokens in kits so this can be your 4/4 beast token. Or your treasure.

[u/skeletor69420]

card dividers!

[u/Technical_Tank_1056]

Circle one is a good coaster at pre release

[u/Fract4]

I use them as dividers at pre-release and then in my pizza box

[u/TheHeroKingN]

I use them as dividers