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Bradley, Tim & Juliet
A show about design in Magic: the Gathering. Each week we cover both official cards and custom cards made by the community. The weekly design challenge gives you the opportunity to make it on the show! Hosted by Adam Klesh, Bradley Rose, and Tim Reilly, with guests!
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Our latest challenge asked submitters to submit big, abtract creatures that could fit in a five color cycle. How do you convey vast and unusual in a non-legendary Magic card? Plus, at least one card submitted in jest.
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Learn all about the newest set from the dynamic duo of Redbay and MonoWhiteBorder! Heavy creature focus, lots of combat rewards, and a free spirit of rebellion. Cyberpunk minus the artifact theme! Lots of fun things to learn about their new project.
Browse the cards from the set: https://rrredbay.github.io/sets/NRC
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The new Marvel Jumpstart product has a ton of special things about it. Lots of unique cards just for these packs, some nice fixing and card flow elements, plus a ton of exciting themes that hook into each other. We catch everyone up on Jumpstart, breakdown strengths and weaknesses, then go pack by pack to get some specific lessons from the designs.
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Wrap up our "hatebears" challenge with your best 2 mana 2/2s that slow down your opponents' strategy. As usual, your submissions drifted from that starting point into some exciting areas. Punish those lacking devotion, buy some plush merch, and witness the return of the Atog in this fun deep dive episode.
New Eps of Juliet's other show coming soon: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/
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Continuing our review of your "hatebear" cards, which mix assertive combat with rule-bending counterbalances. These rule-centric cards have HUGE design implications, so stay tuned for, among other things, a review of the layers system.
New Eps of Juliet's other show coming soon: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/
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For June, we asked for your best "hatebear" cards. Small creatures, big roadblocks for your opponents. What different ways can you impede your opponent?
New Eps of Juliet's other show coming soon: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/
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Ever want to knock a mana off a creature? Remove a bad drawback from a land? Sharpie Cube is the idea of redacting rules text. Always subtraction, never addition. Community member Otter has extensive experience making these edits and walks us through his principals and rules for modifying cards. Then we sharpie some cards live!
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We've got community members AuxilliaryOtter and first time guest CryptRat on to talk cooperative Magic! We go deep on the innovations found in the new TMNT Team Up product, then walk through our community's pitches for cooperative and multiplayer modes! Co-op is still such a new and unexplored part of Magic, so there's plenty to learn in this episode.
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Are you Prepared for the second half of our black-mana artifact and land prepared spell design challenge? Tim and Juliet go on an Adventure reviewing all the submissions and have an Omen for next month's challenge.
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This month we pay homage to our nation's wetlands by reviewing a variety of black mana producing cards. You might be disappointed by only ten cards, but secretly you get the full 20 thanks to adventures, omens, and prepared spells! Lots of discussion on the amount of juice you put into a land, and not a small amount of discussion around demon worship.
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Juliet and game designer Andrew Gillis tackle the noblest of beasts and regalest of steeds, the humble donkey. From its memorable place in Eventide as a goblin-replacement, to its historical role in documented in human society, to the artistic fancy of human-donkey transformation, there's fertile ground to design more Noggles!
You can find Andrew's game We Contain Solitudes here: https://sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-solitudes Or as part of a bundle here: https://itch.io/b/3670/typhoon-sinlaku-ttrpg-relief-bundle
Baneslayer Angel vs Mulldrifter is a spectrum of on-board presence versus pre-loaded value. This week's episode is a cube design episode about that tension. Community member Redbay hops back on the pod to outline the philosophy behind their "Baneslayer Cube" which puts more focus on battling creatures.
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This week we talk about and design for the "Popcorn" game in our Discord community. Fast paced, exciting, and pretty eccentric are apt descriptions for the cooperative hopper of cards. Design a card based off of the last card, and the next person designs one off of yours. We go over some highlights from the game, then design a pair of cards ourselves!
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Cain may be the "first author" of cities, but Juliet and game designer Nic Tringali dive deep into what makes the city, and the city builder, so frequent a fantasy in games and in real life. Along the way they discuss Amberspire, the hit new city-builder that goes live the day this episode releases, and design some brand-new Magic cards!
Find Amberspire on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/Amberspire/
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The big episode is here! Our new yearly tradition where our listeners try to fool us!
Each card we review today is either a real card with name and color changed or a completely made up card. Can we tell the difference? We use a variety of clues to try to bust the fakes and make the right guess!
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Crossovers are back! This time Otter jumps on the pod to explain the board game Spirit Island to Tim. Despite being an area-control cooperative game, it has a ton of cool rules to adapt over into Magic. These Crossover eps are a great way to get the best tidbits from another game while also brainstorming tons of new Magic ideas!
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Tim and Juliet enter their joker phase as they barrel through the final dozen submissions to THE Horse challenge. Put on your stirrups and listen to us break down all of your great saddle cards. Tons of creativity! There's even some innovation in... flavor text?
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Our massive "Year of THE Horse" challenge review continues! You sent us way more submissions than ever before, including mount[ain] kings, the biggest lore dragon, a goat, and many horses. Continue learning along with us about all the nooks and crannies of the Saddle mechanic.
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You better be ready for extensive horse content!!! We got a beyond-huge amount of submissions this month for our Design Challenge, so this episode can only tackle the first THIRD of that bumper crop! So much saddle content, from more traditional beasts to a doting dad. Come get your fill but be ready to come back for more next week.
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Last week's episode about color-shifted "Fractured" planeswalkers set off a firestorm of design in the Discord! This week we're going over a bunch of those cards. So many cool twists on existing characters in new roles, elements, and themes! GrandNagus aka Weasel joins us on the pod for the first time to share their card, too.
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Orzhov Ral Zarek is just the beginning! Khord and Tim collaborate on the idea of switched up colors for planeswalkers. Water wizard Chandra? Tezzeret with wooden limbs? Kaito the samurai? It's not just about changing color, it's also important to find that character nugget to keep the same. How do you keep Liliana's sass while giving her a white mana power set?
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Juliet and Tim review your submissions for the 4/4 flier challenge. Along the way, they dive deep into what makes a keyword plausible, an ability word worthwhile, and randomness in gameplay fun or unfun.
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This month's challenge standardizes the cost and size: 5 mana, 4/4 flier. From there, our designers could go wherever they want! Plenty of fun designs and great discussion, plus a thorough look into the nature of humanity.
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Juliet poses a philsophical question on the nature of identity and gets a crash course on TMNT from turtle-expert Riley Hopkins. In the face of Ooze, does patience or pizza win out? Did you know that Splinter is a cross-universe pun the whole time? Along the way, they design a quartet of fun new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Magic the Gathering cards.
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Our usual Following Signposts faces its biggest challenge yet: Lorwyn Eclipse's crazy draft structure! Part traditional set, part hybrid nonsense, with 8 archetypes instead of 5 or 10. Tons of hybrid talk, which is looking to be a key part of the UB small set era.
Khord's stuff: https://linktr.ee/Khord22
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Flip over last week's episode because we've got a whole extra pod on the back! More of your two-sided noncreature cards this week. We've got references to Alpha, 1500s paintings, multiple Rakdos goopy trash cards, and a Battle for the finale.
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This month's challenge asked you to submit double sided cards where neither side is a creature. The star of the show, though, is the bonus challenge, which was to also make the card easy to read! Along the way Juliet talks about reading Tolstoy, Tim asks for a famous web app, and Guff rewrites history.
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Juliet and special guest horror author Nat Silveira talk about what makes horror as a genre work in speculative fiction and Shadowmoor as a setting, then design two different Shadowmoor-themed body-horror cards!
You can check out Nat's new book The Chrysalis Body at https://books2read.com/thechrysalisbody or https://lost-signals.itch.io/the-chrysalis-body
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All this Lorwyn in the air has got Juliet thinking about the works of 1894, which also leads to thoughts of nonviolence. Follow our train of thought to hear a discussion of new player's aversion to combat, the joy of changelings, and the diet of Mirrans. Then we each design a new Lorwyn card building on all we talked about!
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Power Cube is back on Arena and as wild as always. There's lessons to take away from designing high powered cards and formats. Also make sure to stick around for our fun new game of "B or F?" where Peter has to guess whether a card is 60% winrate or 50% winrate in Power Cube data from 17lands.
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Another hefty design review ep for all of you! Hear our reactions, feedback and insight on the latest crop of submissions. This time, we're getting cards that (mostly...) have the "enters or attacks" titan text. This is the souped up merger of the "value now" and "value later" angles to creature design, and it leads to some powerful cards.
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Every amateur designer is tempted to mess with the past... What if you could change broken cards? Customize a draft format more to your liking? Provide the perfect on-ramp for new players? Tim brings Peter on to go in-depth on his long-simmering project of overhauling early Magic through the lens of Revised aka 3rd Edition. How do you create the feeling of awe and mystery of early Magic? What cards can change and what have to stay the same? Can we bring back Ante??
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This week Gaby is on the pod to talk about a deck swap we're doing with our local friends. Like a Secret Santa, we were each given a mission, and needed to build a deck to that spec. After finishing our decks, we couldn't help but think of what we'd do with some custom magic energy. Join us as we each design a commander, first for "Mischievous Chaos" and then for "If you've got the money honey i've got your disease".
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Juliet's new game has us picking costs from cards, but we don't have all our options available! Can we get a mono-red double striking defender? Abzan direct damage? WB creature stealing?
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Juliet and guest-judge Andrew Sherman finish reviewing the the red-mana-dork Design Challenge, asking fiery questions about whether a Mountain is a card, whether a Creature is a Mountain, and whether Pierre Menard is a better author than Cervantes when it comes to three-drop magic design.
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Juliet and guest judge Andrew Sherman tackle Mono-Red Mana Dorks for this month's design challenge review. Treasure, One-hit wonders, and Blitz (but not blitzball) all make fiery-hot appearances.
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Inspiring episode this week! Khord and IgnitedxSoul hop on the pod this week to tell us about Beacon Constructed, a Standard-like format composed of sets from the Beacon of Creation server. This contained setup has a lot of advantages and helps them playtest with each other.
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We're back again on the trail, following where the signposts lead us in draft. This new Avatar set has some new twists on the uncommon gold "archetype" cards and overall has some new ideas on structure. How do you structure a set with four types of elements in a game with five colors and ten color pairs? We dive in and give our breakdown.
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We've got a combo episode this week. Part project showoff, part live design, and all weird old mechanics. Rexxer2 aka Spencer hops on the pod with Tim to talk through this mechanic-a-day project and then dive in to design three of the cards! Fans (if they exist??) of Frenzy, Grandeur, and Gravestorm gotta listen to this one.
The Year of Mechanics gallery: https://flareporeon.github.io/previews/YOM
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Spooky season meets rhinoceroses in our monthly challenge! We got your best card ideas submitted throughout the month and we cover the entries in this episode. Lots of great designs, plus Juliet's twist on anagram card names!
Charity stream for Moonshot this weekend: https://www.twitch.tv/moonshotnetwork
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This week we're headed joining heads to brainstorm a ton of new ideas for 2HG draft! The episode starts with a recap of Battlebond along with cracking a sample pack. Once the table it set, we settle in to the big brainstorming session, sharing over a dozen ideas for a Battlebond followup.
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This week Gabe's bringing the Mark Rosewater's State of Design 2025 article to the pod. We've picked our favorite points from the article and talk through the implications and lessons. Some of these sets aren't that old but feel ancient now! It was fun to re-live these sets and find some takeaways now that we have some distance.
The article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/state-of-design-2025
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This week we're putting aside our usual design goals and focusing on a new one: creating cards good enough to hang in a high powered cube! Selesnya hasn't gotten as much love as the other color pairs in high power formats, but our community is here to the rescue. Local cube organizer Eric is back on the pod to evaluate all of your great submissions to this tough assignment!
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This challenge review dives into "spellbook" technology from Arena. What cool cards can you design when that card has access to three other cards? We got a ton of submissions again, so you'll learn all about the possible tech!
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Big episode! Alexis Janson breaks down their game and helps brainstorm how to steal some of that technology for our own Magic designs. Alexis was a Beacon host way back in the day, so you know they're ready to go deep on the design and ideas behind Galaxy.
Check out the game: https://galaxy.fun
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Yukmouth streams the game daily: https://www.twitch.tv/yukmouth
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Kayiu and Juliet walk through the basics of Moxtober 2025, the yearly community custom Magic event!
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Juliet is joined by Gabe Lincoln to ask to borrow a cup of one of Magic's oldest flavors, Giant non-Lizard-Wizard non-Hero-Villain Spiders. How do the arachnids that predate the keywording of reach differ from the ones that come after? What is the anatomy of a two-color gold Spider? Why does Ravnica get the most Giant Spiders of them all?
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Wizards is releasing Through the Omenpaths, a full reflavoring of their Spider-Man set. That got us curious how the existing Universes Beyond sets could be redone too! Khord jumps on the pod as we tackle cards from LotR, 40k, Doctor Who, and more.
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Our packed court of Objection! submissions wraps up this week with another packed ep full of great cards! This wide open challenge asked submitters to design a mechanic called "Objection" and we got SO MANY versions. Listen in for our thoughts on all these cards, including three more new submitters!
Submissions from: Xena, MWB, JamesDaltonBell, Juliet, Keith^3, Pat, Inte, Selkie, kuyashiiPlays, Mark Confidant, and Redbay
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You won't hear me objecting to so many design submissions, but you WILL hear all about the first half of our cards with the Objection mechanic! Keywords, ability words, and flavor, this challenge is all about defining "Objection!" as a Magic mechanic.
Due to some Discord issues and due to the huge number of submissions, this week's ep just covers the first half, from:
Dragon of the West AuxiliaryOtter Vtbassmatt Kumrac Sagebeez SillyPhilly Khord Qirn Justnigel KennaKhaos Larcent
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We've told you about You Make the Pack, now it's time to do it!! We've got some live design this week, making submissions for the YMTP event. We brought on new community member KennaKhaos to help and it was definitely the right choice! We tackle both a rare and a common for this emerging project.
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Juliet and game designer Brendan McLeod dispel Ondore's lies as they talk about Final Fantasy XII's sparse appearances in the canon "Magic: The Gathering–FINAL FANTASY", and set out to make a jeskai Commander deck with all new designs for the game's biggest hitters and most memorable moments and characters.
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How do you make your own set in a month? The power of friendship! Beacon regular Brad (aka Redbay) breaks down the schedule he and Peter (MonoWhiteBorder) used to finish and release an entire set in a month. There's a TON of great tips for making sets in this ep, so you won't want to miss it!
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Signpost gold cards are a great way to teach your drafters what archetypes and decks can be drafted in limited. By learning from retail Wizards sets, we can improve our design skills and make more fun sets ourselves. In our Following Signposts episodes, we break down what we learn JUST from the archetype card and the uncommon gold cards. Your drafters won't know the whole picture, but what can they gleam from a handful of cards?
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Tapping is core to Magic and it's about time we did a Design Challenge all about it! This month you sent us all your cards that tap lots of creatures, and as an extra challenge we said to do it without blue! As always lots of innovative cards and plenty of deep dives into the nooks and crannies of each submission.
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A little bit of romance, a dash of action, some new mechanics, and even a speedy bunch of card crafting. This episode has it all! Fusing Capenna's angels and demons world with families, weddings, and duels of honor seems like it will make for a super fun set!
Be sure to check Juliet and co's production of Hamlet but with Sonic characters this Saturday at https://twitch.tv/moonshotnetwork
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Design or Die! To celebrate Card Colosseum, Khord and Tim are design cards at lightning speed! Each prompt gets three minutes, for 15 cards all in one podcast. Listen to our answers to these prompts, then hop on the Discord and give us your versions!
Card Colosseum is a yearly event in the Magic Set Editor (MSE) Discord where pairs of players battle it out, bracket-style, to see which designer comes out on top.
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Passion project meets mainstream set release with Judge Bones's Final Fantasy Tactics Advance project. Started before FIN and reinvented afterward, we talk through all the components he needs to jumpstart this fun adaptation. Learn a bit about some classic games, brainstorm about advanced sideboards, and embrace our new Geomancer overlords.
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Your last chance on the battlefield! This month's design challenge is all about finality counters. Bring creatures back, but not forever. Added on top is a whole lot of Universes Beyond-style top down flavor! Tune in to hear about all the twists our designers found for this still-new mechanic.
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In this live-design episode, Tim and Juliet tackle a templating question based on the precedent of Party, with some help from Banding and Domain. Along the way, they examine the role that lands, dual lands, and 1/1s play in the sequencing of Magic's gameplay, and how all that's best of dark and bright (Shadowmoor and Lorwyn) meet in the aspect and eyes of novel designs.
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Washington Cube Champs is a two day event packed with cube draft! Not just a niche format anymore, cube has its own events and tournaments, including WCC pulling in over a hundred players! This week we've got a pair of interviews with players at the event, including a full breakdown of the cubes each of them played.
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With Tarkir Dragonstorm winding up, we're following their lead and enhancing some old mechanics! Like going from Scavenge to Renew and Flashback to Harmonize, we asked the listeners to design some new mechanics based on old ones. Designing mechanics is one of the hardest things to do a designer, so check out the fruits of everyone's labor!
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Elders... be they dragons, dinosaurs, or Final Fantasy villains, they've always got cool abilities and an epic feel. This week we review your submissions to the challenge of designing new Elders creatures. Thrown into the mix is Juliet's challenge to include... the whole alphabet? Another great wacky mix of card analysis, creativity, and tangents about childhood and podcast saints.
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Crossover eps take another card game, teach you the rules, and compare those ideas to Magic. What can we steal to use in our own designs? For this ep, our hair is turning gold, our energy is radiating from our bodies, and normal humans can't even see the speed of our punches. It's Dragonball Z! It's got commander-style face cards, a more spell-like combat system, and plenty of wild nooks and crannies to its design.
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This one is for the flavor text lovers! Tim and Juliet have to dissect the flavor in this mystery pack from Peter. The pack's story has an order, and it's up to us to figure it out! Very much a Custom Magic episode.
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Moonshot's big charity stream is this weekend!
Starting in Zendikar, quests have been a fun way to build towards a goal. This week's guest, Qirn, has been thinking all about quests for a Legend of Zelda set and has some ideas. Along the way we break down the challenges of designing quests and the cards that are like quests. A deep dive!
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We've got Beacon regular IgnitedxSoul, aka Dylan, on the pod this week! The topic is Outpost Zero, a sci-fi horror set, but more specifically we're diving into some problem draft archetypes in the set. A nice mix of learning about the set and brainstorming ideas for designs!
Check out Ignited's writing: https://www.dylan-tyler-ward.com
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Don't miss this ep! Our listeners each sent us one of two things: either a custom card (of any design) or a real card with the name and types changed. The job for us hosts is to guess which is which, and you can play along!
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With Dragonstorm out but Alchemy not yet revealed, we're taking a shot at some ideas for Arena play with these new mechanics! Long time discord member Craftedlavaistrue joins Tim and Peter for a trio of new cards.
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Arms and the magic we sing of fate And Voc-Gal's micro-set Battle rate. Meanwhile the well-built set speedily came to the isle of the two Sirens, for a fair and gentle wind bore her on. Then presently the wind ceased and there was a windless calm, and a god lulled the waves to sleep.
https://beacon-of-creation-mtg.github.io/previews/VGT
https://khord22.github.io/VGE-spoiler
https://linktr.ee/khord22
Juliet and Redbay break down the hip new limited format and custom design project: 45-card Micro-sets for duplicate sealed! Can this new format bring the best of traditional set design limited and the brevity and expediency of jumpstart play? Check out a preview of five different Micro-sets made by different designers, with a deep dive into Redbay's own traditional-fantasy inspired Veyrathal!
Check out the current state of each of the micro-sets here: https://beacon-of-creation-mtg.github.io/
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Reverse-Engineering a Definition Video Essay: https://youtu.be/0DosgFDJ7tw
Winter hibernation is over and we're hungry! Our challenge this month was to design cards with cards with devour, emerge, or exploit, so keep those snacks coming! We've got dreadmaws, eldrazi books, corrupt sherifs, lots of red arrows, and more!
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They don't make formats like they used to... but should they?! Join guest Tom on a tour through the famous Rise of the Eldrazi format. Along the way we'll also talk about the parallels between ROE and a certain current draft format. Finally we try to see beyond just the cards in the original set and brainstorm some additions to the format.
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Celebrating 400 episodes! This is an intro to the original Beacon of Creation project, Castmire, a spooky Magic set in a world before Duskmourn and Murders at Karlov Manor. The coolest part of the ep is the second half, where we give into sweet ideas from all of you to do with Castmire. We've got the two original creators of Beacon here, Brad and Adam, and lots of their stories and perspectives!
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Frog Legs Rag by Kevin Macleod
Juliet and game designer Aaron Lim dig into Magic's most interesting cards with the Food subtype! From Gingerbrutes to Krovod Haunches, they resist the urge to create tokens and design some tasty (though potentially broken) cards that'll make you say "Bon Appétit".
Check out Aaron's Kickstarter live now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ehronlime/ithaca-in-the-cards-and-what-should-we-have-tomorrow-2nd-eds
You can hear "Ithaca in the Cards" played on Party of One here: https://www.partyofonepodcast.com/2022/09/14/339-ithaca-in-the-cards-with-aaron-lim/
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Big spells with a backup plan! We've got all of your entries in our Four Weeks challenge, where designers had to make a spell you can cast for either 8 mana or 2 mana! We've got lots of Cleave and Prototype, some Spree, and plenty of other innovations. Yet another fun design deep-dive!
Juliet's Bath & Butler Works pod on Moonshot: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bath-butler-3-of-122994563
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Final Fantasy previews are here and we've assembled a heroic party to talk all about it! Tim and Juliet are joined by the wonderful Ash Parrish of the Verge to break down all the cards. We talk our favorite previews, then talk through some possibilities for the set. What color is Bahamut? Should Materia be a token? What are the famous dragons in Final Fantasy anyhow?
Ash's work: https://www.theverge.com/authors/ash-parrish
Ash is on Insert Credit: https://insertcredit.com
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You Make the Pack is our community project where we build a pack of Magic cards, one card at a time! What starts as a blank slate quickly narrows into a specific vision. Past packs were Food Hell World, Declining Clockwork Empire, and The Beach That Makes You Old.
For this episode we're looking at everyone's cards for this new YMTP. We've got snorf, story, spores and more. Come along with us as we explore all the possibilities.
Khord's stuff: https://linktr.ee/khord22
Peter's new bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/peterofbeacon.bsky.social
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Theme by Dee Culp, but listen to the end of the episode too...
This week is all about drift archetypes! We break down all ten from the new set along with their gold cards. Are they exciting? Believeable? Synergistic? This is a great way to get familiar with the components of the set's limited design.
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Watch "Cars" for Pete's sake!
What is Magic missing? We listened to all of you! This month's challenge was to use a new creature type and we went through all your cards.
Juliet's new game: https://mousewifegames.itch.io/princeton
Moonshot Patreon for Juliet's next project: https://www.patreon.com/c/moonshotnetwork/posts
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In this episode we learn about Joyride, a bumper car battle race board game. Along the way we brainstorm ideas in Magic inspired by this new game!
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This week we're in the lab, talking all about cube experiments! Something between a normal limited format and a custom set, a cube is a way to test out all varieties of Magic in just the right conditions. To help him, Tim brings on cube organizer Alex and format mastermind Sam to go through more than a dozen cube pitches!
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Would you like to listen to two people say the word "Beast" about two hundred times each? We have the episode for you. Diving into "Call the Beast" from Wrenchmar, we talk all about how to package flavor and novelty into a showstopper mechanic. No need to know anything going in, we cover it all!
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Part of what makes Custom Magic fun is how easy it is to get into. Design a card, show it around, and done! For the New Year, Juliet wanted to tell us all about other ways to get involved in game design as a solo designer. There's so much in this pod!!!
Some of the tools described:
GB Studio https://www.gbstudio.dev
Bitsy https://bitsy.org
Renpy https://www.renpy.org
Button Shy https://buttonshygames.com
downpour https://downpour.games
decker https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker
RPGMaker w/Pokemon Essentials https://essentialsdocs.fandom.com/wiki/Essentials_Docs_Wiki
Also look forward to Showcase Zero this Friday!
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We've got a ten pack of Defender-matters cards to review this month for our (Ad)vent Sentinel design challenge! The added twist here of getting the number 12 on a card really put our designers on an interesting track.
Juliet's Castmas pod: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/
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We've got a super cool guest for our episode this week! Principal game designer on the new Teamfight Tactics season, Shawn Elizabeth Main!! Not only that, Shawn was the lead on Conspiracy, so you know we're getting some multiplayer Magic talk in too. These Design Crossover eps are all about learning a new game and then riding that wave of inspiration back into some ideas for Magic. This one is for the multiplayer draft heads!
The new TFT set/season, Into the Arcane: https://teamfighttactics.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/set-overview/teamfight-tactics-into-the-arcane/
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Unpacking is where we go through a pack one card at a time and learn what we can just from that pack. No archetype lists, no explanation of mechanics, just what's on the cards. It's a great way to both see what the packs can tell us, but also brainstorm things that COULD be in a set but aren't.
(also shh... we told Bradley he was recording an ep about Foundations so we could suprise him)
The pack: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AmyuCVn_UGWJ_cGtpBhtX7abaEiGeLnGVbTuz98bBg4/edit?usp=sharing
Bradley's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bradleyrose
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We've got Bass back on the pod to tell us EVERYTHING about the short-lived Transformers TCG! This game burned short but burned bright. You start with your whole team in play, and each card has value both as a spell but also during the super cool "flip" phase of combat! Like all Crossover eps, we also sprinkle in plenty of ideas of how to cross those mechanics back into Magic.
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Who needs to cast spells when you can sit back and let your creatures do the casting? Just the easy life for us! Fortunately our listeners didn't take it easy and instead submitted a baker's dozen creatures-that-cast spells cards for us to review.
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We're back with a new crossover episode! Peter explains everything Tim needs to know about Wingspan, then they ride the wave of inspiration into a variety of mechanics for Magic! You don't need to know anything about Wingspan to listen (Tim didn't!)
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Spurred by the idea of simultaneous combat, Peter and Tim delve into all the phases and steps of a turn! After honing our understanding of each one, we also break out into some free form ideas. Deleting the draw step? A "start turn" phase to match "end turn"? Multiplayer alternating main phase actions? Lots more discussed.
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Juliet and Esper witness the carefully-designed majesty of magister sphinxes on the white-blue-black Esper shard, from its played-everywhere cards to possibly the worst card in all of Magic: The Gathering.
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Moxtober is our yearly event where we design cards based on a daily, one-word prompt. What would you design for "Alpha" or "Trial"? Our community designed a ton of cards. This year, we're putting the spotlight on all our new submitters (plus a who came back!). Moxtober is for everyone and this episode is a celebration of that!
New members in this ep:
Smell Hole - Smoking Gun
Underworld Dreamer - Leyline of Inevitability
The Real Eli - I Am Error
Gluestick248 - Burning Slice
YABO - Alpha Alpha
Regal-Turtwig - Downfall of the Spire
Talone - Limited Edition Alpha
Ortuy - Escape Pursuit
Therandomguyhi/Alastar - Alpha Agonizer
sky.net - Break the Mirror
PlaidWeaselVT - Animal, Loose Cannon
Evan - Thunderous Sozu
Spiderify - Gracinda
Hamadyne - Barely Alive
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You all went quiet on us... but then came back! In the Going Ghost challenge, we asked for cards that blink out but take some time to come back. Plenty of spooky ghosts and funny flavor to be found in this ep!
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Juliet and Mdub dig up the bones of Magic's Skeletons—from the ever-imitated Drudge Skeletons, to Skeletons that are Swamps, to modern Demilichs, not forgetting a number of cards that are clearly Skeletons in all but name. Along the way, we regenerate the design space for Skeletons of the future!
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We're back again with a deep dive on the uncommon gold cards of the newest set! We're honing our instincts on the design of these types of cards, and talk about how to apply it to our own designs.
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You've got questions, we've got an episode! We've got a whopping twenty-five questions packed into this episode, so you better press play!
Theme music by Dee Culp
"Misty Bog" by Eric Maytas soundimage.org
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We're putting on our finest outfits and securing our monocles as we review the "To the Nines" challenge review. You all submitted equipment, but you weren't allowed to use the Equip ability! We've got scarabs, fish, crowns and collars this week and it's all going to be fun!
More Juliet content at https://www.twitch.tv/moonshotnetwork
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Kayiu and Juliet tackle what makes designing for an IP swing or miss, covering Portal: Three Kingdoms and Chikyu: Ruined Future. Along the way, we break down some bad card design habits, some -1/-1 counter mechanics, Dynasty Warriors, a general acclaim for decayed, and a quick introduction to what makes Moxtober great!
Juliet & Riley's Three Kingdom Spectacular is on Oct 1st at https://www.twitch.tv/moonshotnetwork
Kayiu's live set-design streams are Sundays at https://www.twitch.tv/kayiu102
Schwa's article on fan-sets: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CcsU5xtDLNSm2DWh4zZDY46gDuvZkHBh3beFj3qioPk/edit?usp=sharing
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Our last pod about Design League 3 is here! We've got both league champ Prov and runner-up Brad here to talk about their process, the planes, and their ideas for the future! Be sure to catch our previous two league pods for some helpful context on this one.
Recommendations
Brad's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bradleyrose
Prov recommends: watching soccer!
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Two-thirds of the Squares that Cube podcast join the pod this week to break down YOUR submissions to our Octopus-Overloaded challenge, Eight Legs a Week! Will our six arms be enough??
Squares that Cube feed: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2298320
StC Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0rM876ypRLwnF7rodNaUAZ
StC's Pacific NW drafters Discord: https://discord.gg/eu4nthkkf5
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Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Provocative's entry, and you'll hear all about some new tokens, Rakdos planeswalkers, and why the sun is bad!
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Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Bradley Rose's entry, and you'll learn about it along with us. Super exciting!
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Calming beach views, cooking for your friends, and all the Magic you could want! Tim and guest Shobi make the case for taking out a whole weekend with friends for playing Magic. Too much? Or not enough? They also go through all the cool drafts they did over the course of three days of Magic.
Shobi's show in Portland: https://www.funhouselounge.com/burwesque/
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Bloomburrow's rules change to "enters" has us hungry for more! Can we shorten "once a turn", "flicker", "end of turn", and more? Join our tour of rules text minutiae.
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Bloomburrow is here! We've had a look at the archetypes, and it's time for us to break down the design of each of them. For that, we have our four categories:
- Excitement: Is this a cool new strategy? Do these two cards inspire us?
- Accuracy: Do we believe decks will actually be able to play this strategy?
- Synergy: Does this make unused cards great? Are these cards only good in the right deck?
- Raw Strength: Are these two cards useful on their own? Do these cards lead me to this color pair?
This is less abuut how to pick the best cards to win games, and more about the impression these archetypes might make on players picking up the set. With these tools we can also improve how we design our own sets.
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This month's challenge is all about making a mana fixing card! Even better if we can get some heist flavor in there. From jewels to rads to chains we've got a pile of cards to dive into!
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We're making good on June's "Halfway There" and designing cards to go with our favorite submissions from that challenge! Finding the right balance of flavor, deckbuilding, and explosive commander fun is a big challenge!
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Tim liked what he saw in Bloomburrow previews ordered up a frog burger with a side of flies and Juliet serves up the A-B-Cs of F-R-O-Gs! We talk a little Bloomburrow, dive deep on the history of frogs in Magic, then explore some design ideas for frogs in the future.
Juliet's July/December Christmas pod: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/
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Our competition, the Design League, just finished its first half. Come listen to the great cards designed for this competition. Along the way you'll also get the POV of both a competitor and a judge for the league.
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This month's challenge review takes on Partner With commanders. We've got a whole bunch of great submissions from Kithkin to Moby Dick! Lots of crazy flavor, technology, and even some mystery.
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We built a pack together and it came out very Lorwyn-y! Patrick and khord22 hop on the pod to tell Tim all about it. Listen in to learn about collaborating on Magic designs!
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We bring the past into the present! Returning guest thesixthroc describes how they tried errata and custom cards to bring original Kamigawa to the present. Along the way we dive into designing for an audience, the cost of errata, highlighting hidden themes, and... Channel Mutate??
thesixthroc's Kamigawa list: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/kamigawa_block_revisited
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We asked for your gold Cascade + Discover designs and you responded! A full seventeen submissions for this challenge, all inspiring fun ways to play with cards off the top.
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Coming off fedoras on Faerie Detectives and Stetsons on Homarids, Redbay cooked up a "hats for legends" generator! He and MonoWhiteBorder grab some hats, put them on some fan favorites, and do some live design.
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Modern Horizons 3 is bringing back the broods and titans, so it's time to venture back into the Blind Eternities! The Eldrazi are a super-cool creature type that has gotten some, but not a ton, of exploration over the years. We break down all the lessons learned so far, then dive into some "character pie" between the titans. As a wrap up we try to assign a variety of keywords to different titans. Prepared for your reality to be warped!
JB's games and add-ons: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/4841/at-the-table-games?keyword=At%20the%20table%20games
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Design League starts back up May 26th, and to get you ready we've got League Emperor Redbay and longtime judges Juliet and Tim. They talk through the process, their judging styles, and even live design and judge a card on air!
The challenge we revisit: https://www.beaconofcreation.com/2023/06/21/design-league-season-2-qualifier-5-results/
See Juliet on the Moonshot Moongarita charity drive: https://twitter.com/MoonshotPods/status/1792638421816553724
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Heat up your cauldron and practice your hexes because we're going goth! We're looking at the videogame Midnight Suns and seeing what we can carry back into Magic. This card-based strategy game is by the same studio as the Civilzation and X-Com games, so it's coming from a different starting point. Tim and Peter talk through the gameplay and extrapolate where Magic could take those ideas.
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We're taking your submissions one day (and night) at a time! We asked for your common day/nightbound cards and we got a bumper crop! Hitting that common rarity on a double face card is a narrow target, ESPECIALLY for our listeners who love to pack innovation into each card.
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Time to bring the cows home! We've got the second half of our new episode format, where we check out all the draft archetypes of a set. This is focused on the gold cards and on Wizard's description of the pairs. Our categories are:
- Excitement: Is this a cool new strategy? Do these two cards inspire us?
- Accuracy: Do we believe decks will actually be able to play this strategy?
- Synergy: Does this make unused cards great? Are these cards only good in the right deck?
- Raw Strength: Are these two cards useful on their own? Do these cards lead me to this color pair?
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New set! New mechanics! New episode format??? We kick the tires on a new way to break down arcuns, those gold cards we get every set that help define draft. Rather than going for power rankings or in-depth numbers on a whole set, we're trying to model how people see these cards for the first time. To do that, we've got four categories:
- Excitement: Is this a cool new strategy? Do these two cards inspire us?
- Accuracy: Do we believe decks will actually be able to play this strategy?
- Synergy: Does this make unused cards great? Are these cards only good in the right deck?
- Raw Strength: Are these two cards useful on their own? Do these cards lead me to this color pair?
This was such a fun way to break down cards that we went DEEP. Originally one ep, we broke this into two! Look forward to more next week!
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This week we are Beacon of Tomorrows, a podcast about time! We look over all the ways Magic has to take extra turns and try to brainstorm some new directions. From Alpha to Dr Who there are many ways to keep it going.
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March's challenge was all about designing new twists on the elder dragons! Nicol and family, Tarkir dragons, Strixhaven, and a few other twists. Guest Cole AKA EclipseMeteor hops in to gush about all these sweet designs!
Cole's new pod: https://twitter.com/HBVC_MTG
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Super fun ep!!! We strategize, agonize, and finally pick mechanics from Magic's past, one at a time, snake drafted between Tim, Gabe, and Peter! What starts as a simple exercise turns into a thrilling competition. Everything from the pre-Modern era of Magic is on the table except for those pesky evergreen keywords.
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This week we are looking at the custom set Settling Idyll by Provocative! As usual with Unpacking, we know next to nothing going in. We only know a single image: a heroic mech guarding a town.
Settling Idyll PS: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/settling-idyll
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The Beacon community finished a second You Make the Pack, where we build a 15 card pack together. This week Kayiu brings on guest Dodger to see how we did! Hear about the new mechanics, get Dodger's insight, and maybe even design a bonus card for the pack at the end.
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Mark Rosewater dropped a huge design article about Play Booster set skeletons this week! Skeletons are the outline of a Magic set, so we had to convene a pod to dissect all this new info. Design League champ platypeople and new guest Gabe Lincoln help Tim break down all the cool details of the article.
Maro article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/nuts-and-bolts-16-play-boosters
Gabe's Twitter: https://twitter.com/gabelincoln0
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Jump in to these great submissions... or LOSE THE GAME! We've got 13 great designs for our February challenge, which asked people to create cards with the text "lose the game".
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We've got Gaby back on the pod for more live designing! You don't need to know anything about the game to listen... we cover what you need! We take a look at the cards for Halsin, Minthara, and Jaheira from the Magic set and give each a facelift to match them to their personalities in the videogame.
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Two more contestants, three more guilds... it's the return of Ravnica Design Rush! What cards can be created in mere minutes?
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Unpacking is a segment where we go totally blind into a pack and just break down the cards we see, as we see them. Usually we do this with older or custom sets, but Kayiu had the great idea of going blind into the new Murders at Karlov Manor set! What do we learn from just 14 cards?
This ep was edited by kayiu!!!
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This week we review your Faerie cards that mix in digital and other special mechanics!
Legion's links:
PS: https://www.planesculptors.net/user/legion
Legion's Judgment Blog: https://legionsjudgment.wordpress.com/
Discord: legion_of_four
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@The_Legion_Of_Four
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The new season of Design Rush starts here!
Juliet ambushes Kayiu and Tim with a quick-on-your-feet card design showcase of the guilds of Ravnica (that's Ravnica, not Guilds of Ravnica). Play along at home!
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Moxtober is about designing a card a day for a month. But what if you designed a whole set? A team of five from the MSE Discord made that happen! We've got three of them, Cool Beens, crime?, and kayiu, on this week's episode. We also get a LOT about the flavor and setting of this cube!
Moxtober 2023 Cube: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/moxtober-cube-2023
MSE Discord: https://discord.gg/4Kf2uWswMj
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Now that we've played through the amazing Baldur's Gate 3, we've got opinions on the designs from Battle for Baldur's Gate! Gaby and Tim break down each of the vidoegame's six companions, their existing card, their personality, and design something new for them!
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Spurred by the recent discussion of Blue-Green's years-long limited slump, Tim and Peter dive into more than a dozen UG signpost uncommons. Can we learn about how to make better UG cards by finding patterns in the last few years?
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mtg_ds/status/1730414469644189748
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Another month, another crazy design challenge! This month was all about finding ways to break the color pie within a single color's effects. We've got multiple white time walks, black Izzet cards, blue land destruction and more!
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Kayiu and guest DrChillbrain take a break from design talk to dive into their favorite card art of the year and what makes them special!
Gallery with all the picks from the ep: https://imgur.com/a/aIaZOXp
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You Make the Pack was a cooperative event where we designed a pack of cards for an unknown set, one card at a time. It was super fun, and Redbay is on this episode to talk all about it!
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We've got prolific designer Fblthp on the pod again, this time to talk about some fun Gotham villains! From big names like Joker and Harley to funny ones like Eraser, join us for a flavor and mechanic dive into these Moxtober creations.
Fblthp's Gotham Villains: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/gotham-halloween
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We're winding down on 2023 and asked you for your best cards using this year's mechanics! We got battles, cybermans, Marvel characters (??) and a Wurmhole. Be sure to tune in!
Check out the cards of Revolution: https://revolution-manifesto.herokuapp.com
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Hold on to your butts! We're recapping our favorite new Universes Beyond Jurassic Park cards, then leaping claws-first into designing some new cards of our own! To help us, our guest Lyght learned to use their raptor claws to work door handle and busted in!
Lyght's Linktree - https://linktr.ee/LyghtThePhiRexian
Battle of Big Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7kbVvpOGdQ
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See if your commander pod can survive five nights with these cards!
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Dive into Bass's favorite cards from the new Dr Who set! Don't worry if you don't know the show, you'll get filled in on all sorts of flavor. Plus a nice helping of weird alien guys.
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One of our coolest Design Challenges ever! We asked you to take the rules box of an existing card and spin it into a new one without changing more than a single word. The submissions are amazing!
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Moxtober is the big yearly Magic design event in the custom community! We've got the creator of Moxtober on the pod this week. We talk about where this year's prompts came from, then we play a game where we review some cards and try to guess which prompt goes with which card!
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Brad's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bradleyrose
Brad's bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/specialbeamcannon.bsky.social
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We're live designing this week! Start with an existing card and some directions, and punch that card up! We've got vampires, obsession, booster packs, Grozoth, skeletons, and playtest cards!
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This episode has it all! A new set! More spooky Castmire! Moxtober tie-in! New Battle subtype! A dead body! Listen in to hear all about Juliet's new Jumpstart set. Ten packs, but with 13 cards per pack. Tons of great discussion and you can hop right in.
Juliet's writing at: https://cohost.org/folly
Moxtober recaps at: https://www.youtube.com/@anandsuresh6421
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Juliet and Redbay talk through a draft of Redbay's three-color factions set, Traegar. Along the way, they discuss different ways of looking at high-power environments, the compromises and top-down vision needed to make a shard/wedge gold set work, and how to adapt when you have too many playables. Traegar is in design right now! You can come draft it, chime in on its progress, and do your own pack 1 pick 1's in the redbay-traegar channel on the Beacon of Creation discord!
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Your challenge was using concept art from the 2024 Magic sets. Our job is to review them all and pick our favorites! From tiny pirate ships to Italian assassins to twenty-one swords, this month's Design Challenge is packed with fun and clever designs!
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Alert! Super fun episode!! Community members Dillon and patrick went on a spree of designing Squad mechanics. Monsquadsity, Ninsquadtsu, Squecho, Musquade, and dozens more!
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Our big wrap up episode for Design League 2!!! We brought everyone on: the winner platypeople, runner-up Ludos, and league commissioner Redbay. We get the behind the scenes on the big finals submissions and also some insight on how RB put it all together. We also get into a bit of challenge design for those looking to run their own events.
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Tune into this post-playtest convo between MonoWhiteBorder and Juliet, breaking down MDub's new set. The theme is golden age of Hollywood, so expect spotlights, directors, extras, and more!
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A fun weekend draft turned into a conversation! Juliet ambushed Tim mid-draft with the recording bot and we talked through packs 2 and 3 and the first two games of the draft. Lots of individual card discussion and we even learn the story of Billygoats Gruff!
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We issued the A Gust of Wind challenge for August, and now it's time to review your submissions! There are a bunch of ways you found to have blue spells deal damage: gold cards, drawbacks, even damage-that-bounces. Another great ep full of great cards!
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Kayiu and Tim crack open platypeople's pack for the "Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo" Finals challenge for the Design League! We saw LudosGD's entry earlier in the week, how will the two stack up? We've got bullies! Circles! Safes! and Triangles!
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Tim and Kayiu are excited to crack open LudosGD's entry into the "Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo" challenge finals! This is both a card-by-card Unpacking as well as their judging conversation. Moon projections! Drones! Tourists! Colossal stuff! Baby animal people!
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The Design League is roaring towards its conclusion and we've got highlights from the tournament rounds! Round 2's Planeswalker vacations and Round 3's color-coordinated creature packs made for great cards.
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In Unpacking, we go through the cards in a pack without knowing anything beyond that pack. Through this lens, we try to guess themes, mechanics, flavor, and more!
This time we're looking at Primivir and starting with a single mysterious image of an angular, abstract city scape. The set is by Myrmiredon.
Planesculptors: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/primivir
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Worlds collide with community member Fblthp's League of Legends-themed MEGAset. We get the download on the shape of the Jumpstart packs and then get some flavor and cards for the Noxus faction.
Set file: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/runeterra-jumpstart-noxus#cards
Noxus Lore: https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/noxus/
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Tokens, Two-Headed Giant, and Draft collide with the "Two-ken Play At That Game" challenge! You all scoured Scryfall for the most obscure tokens and cooked up your coolest multiplayer cards! Tim and MDub go through all 18 of your submissions and pick their favorites.
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Kayiu and Juliet bring on Queen Emily to talk about her latest completed project, Songs of Yisai! Inspired by Jewish mythology and biblical sources, this set mixes artifacts, enchantments, and a WUBRG theme.
Songs of Yisai PlaneSculptors: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/songs-of-yisai
Songs of Yisai Stories: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l4hgZTjI94G-dwVhhY3i5sY8MnvSe6kzCvnDJ38Fcp8/edit
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Commander Redbay has launched the fleet of League designers into the world of planet-scale sci-fi adventure! Tim and Juliet set the stage for this setting and then highlight cards from the recently completed Design League Season 2 Top 8.
Experience Christmas in July via comparative fiction with Juliet's other show, I'll be Pod for Castmas: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/
Juliet has also been on other pods for the Moonshot Network https://moonshotpods.com/
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Buggy big bugs! We asked for your 6/3 insects with some sort of design flaw. We got a swarm of submissions, so I brought on Hayley as a guest! The "bugs" in each card are each their own little puzzle and it's fun to dig into the rules.
Next month's challenge asks for some unique tokens, so get your scryfall searches going. Find out more on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
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This week Juliet brings on Middle Earth Horse Expert Westley to discuss all the horse cards of the new LOTR set! An episode sure to be a colt classic.
Check out the full run of Shadowfacts: https://shadowfactspod.podbean.com/
and find Westley on Cohost: https://cohost.org/HorseArchivist
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Jump into another world with a Lord of the Rings custom set made before the Wizards set! Bass walks us through the brainstorm and playtesting of his ideas for Middle Earth. If you like keywords and mechanics, this is the episode for you, as Bass tried a lot of big new mechanics and little tweaks and keywordings!!
Check out Bass's mega blog post and learn even more about this set.
Follow Bass on Twitter @Bass_Wakil and @bassimstory
Bass's story podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-story-toolkit/id1132638400
His writing podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5C6z1SIN9m8stESI6UzvM9?si=RM3TISJ7TX6E5uweyHB6Ng
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We've got custom Magic superstar Pipsqueak back on the pod this week to talk about her set Animus Vox. Space exploration, music, and contemplation set the mood for this great set.
Check out the MSEverse page, especially the fiction: https://mseverse.miraheze.org/wiki/Animus_Vox_(set)
Also mentioned in the ep is Pipsqueak's Lion's Eye Quotient: https://custommagiccodex.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/the-lions-eye-quotient/
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May's challenge asked the community for cards using "modified" that had cosmetic flavor. We've got 16 great cards to talk about and Tim and MWB dive right in!
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The second of our four custom Unpacking episodes, where we go card-by-card in a pack for a set we've never seen before! This time, Tim is joined by community member LudosGD. What will be unveiled when the curtain rises??
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Full Grand Gala card list: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/the-grand-gala
This week is the long-awaited spotlight on Seasons of War, the custom commander limited set! Creator Timespiraled joins the show to tell us everything they learned making it and what they enjoy about the final product!
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Check out the cards in the set: https://msem-instigator.herokuapp.com/card?q=e%3Aswr
Go deep with the design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LXCrKJ-QoP2beLdMyKnmNQBeDafC5_ab1UyMNObTCGs/edit
In Unpacking, we go one-by-one through cards in a pack. We learn what we can from just the cards in front of us; no set summary and no knowledge of the mechanics. It's a fun way to see cards with fresh eyes.
This time Redbay joins Tim in going through a pack of Memories of the Silver City by Chartate101. We go in just seeing a picture of a green forest portal in a run-down city. Come along with us as we discover the set through the lens of a pack.
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We put our foot down and issue an ultimatum: design us some great cards! You know the community is going to give us a huge haul of cool designs and plenty to talk about.
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Kayiu hosts a look at color-blasted, music-infused future set Hyperpop! Creators platypeople and IgnitedxSoul give you a comprehensive look starting with abandoned mechanics, then talking through the featured keywords, into themes, and finally some Revolution constructed shots.
Check out the set: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/hyperpop
Browse the Revolution format at: https://revolution-manifesto.herokuapp.com/format/revolution
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Episode 300 is here! We recap Castmire, the community-designed spooky mansion set. How it came to be, all the mechanics, and the potential directions for the set!
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/castmire
Come chat with everyone on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Castmire theme is "Nightmare" by https://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com
Learn all about Mattelonian's art and performance set, Merveaux! We learn all about what it takes to merge artifacts, enchantments, and three color wedges into one heavily playtested package.
Juliet and Susan discuss the things Cats are always known for: having antlers, flying, and having jobs! We break down some of Magic's most influential and adventurous felines, and together design a blue(paw)print card for what the future of this flavor might hold.
You can find Susan's photography at https://instagram.com/qusiepop
the Moonshot Network's patreon at https://patreon.com/moonshotnetwork
and Three Little Words at https://linktr.ee/the3lwpodcast
March is over and your entries to the design challenge are here! Tim and Juliet review a sometimes-aquatic variety of artifact soldiers. There's lobsters, legions, french fish, swampy subs, an underwater robot, an undercover otter, overarmor, unliving, a hydrophile, a hydrophobe, filled bowls and hollow knights.
No episode next week! The team is busy. We'll be back the week after!
Hop on our Discord to check out the April design challenge, talk MotM spoilers, and get updates on the upcoming community blog: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Realmbreaker has reconnected all the planes and we're reconnecting with a format from the early 2010s: Planechase! This multiplayer-focused format switches rules early and often. What makes a good Plane card? Are the bad cards fun or just part of the vibe? What even is Belenon?
Shout out to Christopher Lundgren for supplying the list of planes.
Hop on our Discord to participate in the design challenge, talk MotM spoilers, and get updates on the upcoming community blog: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
MWB aka Peter challenges Juliet and Tim to layer the flavor on top of three flavorless cards. Each card has so many directions it could go which makes for a very funny discussion.
We've got three more unseasoned cards for you to spice up. Find them and give your ideas on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Juliet's new game: https://mousewifegames.itch.io/echolocation
Theme music by Dee Culp
Don't want to make a full cube but want to get more adventurous than a set cube? Check out Tim's Mirrodin Double Block Cube, which brings in cards from six sets and fuses them into something both familiar and new. Redbay hops on the pod to ask all his questions about the cube and to suggest some fun additions from All Will the One.
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Visit Redbay's band: https://odinfist.bandcamp.com
Seven days later. Ten new entries! Tune in for some great cards in our combined zombie/cupid design challenge!
ChurchWizard
MWB
JamesDaltonBell
Juliet
Redbay
monaters
3smuth
Eshlelim
Wobbles
JBMannon
Hop onto our Discord and get working on your entry for March: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
February and postapocalyptic zombie comas have one thing in common: 28 days! We review your zombie submissions, with potential bonuses of tokens, tribal, and archery! We'll see who pays tribute to Cupid in part one, covering the first half of submissions from:
Sage B
CryptRat
Wraidzel
Dillon
PANOPTES
BulkRare
Grrrbear
Dragon of the West
The second half comes later this week!
Until then, hop onto our Discord and get working on your entry for March: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
It's Cupid month and Juliet is taking us on a deep dive into archery in Magic. What represents archery flavor best? What's the most fun?
Fun Fact: "mechanistic" is another name for slab serifs!
Hop on our Discord and tell us your ideal archers: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
League champ Wraidzel and league finalist 3smuth both jump on the pod. Get to know both of these great designers and go behind the scenes on their entries across the rounds of the challenge. Super fun ep with great guests!
Submit your card for our new challenge, "28 Days Later", in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
3... 2... 1... Baby New Year! All the January children have been born, giving us a whopping 16 "Figure of Destiny" card submissions, all ready to be reviewed. What makes a good one drop? What does the curveout look across three abilities? What is Juliet's "most weird card ever"??
Submit your card for our new challenge, "28 Days Later", in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
The finals of the Design League are here: design a booster pack for a set themed around the children's board game Candy Land!! We're reviewing the second finalist in this episode, blown out into full Unpacking style. Card by card we speculate on themes, mechanics, and more!
Head to the Discord to find out the winner on Wednesday! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
The finals of the Design League are here: design a booster pack for a set themed around the children's board game Candy Land!! We got a great pack from each finalist. We're giving each submission its own episode, blown out into full Unpacking style. Card by card we speculate on themes, mechanics, and more!
Head to the Discord to find out the winner on Wednesday! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Phyrexia: All Will Be One includes a single Flashback card, using that mechanic "deciduously". These present-but-not-everywhere mechanics have been normal in commander decks forever, but it's only in the last year or so that standard sets have done this.
Tim lit the beacon looking for someone to geek out on this with and Discord member LudosGD answered the call! We talk through what the current deciduous mechanics guidelines might be and then talk through how those rules apply to a variety of old mechanics.
As usual, the best way to engage with us is through Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
The mother of machines and her armies loom large! We cover what phyrexia did in the past and what new mechanics could be corrupted for their purposes!
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Super special episode this week! Kayiu's here with a selection of cards from the custom Revolution format and it's up to MWB and Bradley to guess what hit and what didn't!
Browse Revolution's sets and cards here:https://revolution-manifesto.herokuapp.com/format/revolution
Hop on to Custom Magic discord: https://discord.gg/custommagic
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Don't be a grinch: open your heart up to all these sweet black and white Miracle cards! Fifteen sweet cards packed into one fun ep!
If you've got an idea for our new Baby New Year challenge, head to the Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Design League contestants Juliet and MonoWhiteBorder take over the pod and talk through how they came up with their cards.
The challenges for reference:
Card A: Submit a non-white, mono-colored card with the Ancestor mechanic to represent The New Age. (We will be using the Ancestor mechanic as written in Courageous Commander.)
Cards B and C: (One of the following cards must include a returning mechanic from retail Magic.)
Submit a card to represent an “Old Believer” that has a multicolored identity without sharing a color with your Card A design.
Submit a card to represent the Gods return and attack on New Age Gandgoma. This should use a different card type than your Card B design.
Round 1 Entries: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IOGhXg-_43S7wMOan5HzzFq2f1PTsGTZUh0uRkI5G44/edit?usp=sharing
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We dive head-first into the anime pool this week, discussing the early 2000s series Naruto! We break down some core mechanics from the series in Magic terms, then sketch out how some of the characters could be designed. Design Collab episodes always lead to interesting places and this one is no different!
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Deep dive into the eight qualifiers with help from league mastermind Redbay!
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League mastermind Redbay is here to catch everyone up on his Design League and to announce the tournament challenge!
Hop onto the Discord now to follow along! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Music by Dee Culp
We've got just one pack to learn as much as we can about Dragons of Tarkir. What will it tell us? Is this secretly Muraganda? Are X/1s the name of the game? Is this set Silumgar vs Atarka? Are there even dragons here???
Submit your entry for the new design challenge in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
We've got two pieces and it's time to meld these 8 challenges with Wednesday's 8!
There's parenthesis names, lectures, searches, bright futures, lairs, lols, acronyms and agoraphobes.
Submit your entry for the new design challenge in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Music as usual from Dee Culp
We've got the URge to ZA this week with your design challenge submissions!
Listen in for scraps, warships, living robots, babies, lectures, expansions, walls, windows, and failures. Second half of the submissions coming this weekend!
Submit your entry for the new design challenge in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Music as usual from Dee Culp
What could you learn from just a pack? This week we put aside anything we know about AVR and look at what one pack tells us. What are the themes and what does the gameplay look like?
Tell us what packs you want to see on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Jaunty music from FreePD.com
We've got a great new tribute set Legacies of Tarkir on the pod this week! Creator Fblthp is here to help us break down their classic take on Tarkir.
Full Set: https://cubeartisan.net/cube/yz/overview
Say hi to Fblthp and jump into our new Design League on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Tentacles! Branches! Hooks! Bows! Armor! Turtle Power! Mr Fantastic! Pumpkins without the hyphen! Devils! Mogwai!
We've got it all in the second half of the Pump-kin challenge review. Your best and funniest Halloween cards in a battle to the death!
Hop into the new Design League and more at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
We've got a card to preview for you for Spellslinger's upcoming Helvault Unsealed set! See if you can guess it, then let's think through all the decks and slingers it combos with! Wobbles leads the discussion and makes sure we have all the best info.
This ep is good for newbies to SS as well. That game engine is just different enough from regular MTG that it's informative and interesting to compare cards between them. Definitely some good inspiration here!
Hop on our Discord and share your ideas for Spellslingers decks and cards! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Check out MTG-SS, the biggest site about the game: https://mtg-ss.net/
Theme by Dee Culp
All the critters come out for the Pump-kin challenge! All of your best pump spells with all your spookiest tribes. We've got healthy Skeletons, merfolks protecting the rim, scarecrows, swarms, eyes, goggles that do nothing, bog standards, per-Blex-ing batches, and a lil fruit bat in this episode!
Keep the Moxtober heat up by hopping on our Discord and share your designs! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Moxtober is finishing up and we're highlighting a bunch of special projects that go beyond the base "prompt a day" style submissions:
MWB's Classic Movie Monsters
Dillion's Legends reborn
Bradley's Chimaera deck
LudosGD's illustrated story
Loreley Weisel-Librizzi's twitter-size planeswalker stories.
Keep the Moxtober heat up by hopping on our Discord and share your designs! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
PJ aka Commander Replay brings his Boros brewing knowledge to a Design Collab! We've got four commanders we're making cards for:
Tori D'Avenant, Fury Rider
Augusta, Dean of Order
Haktos the Unscarred
Velomachus Lorehold
Even better, I thought we were originally going to make one card per commander but PJ brought a ton! Enjoy all these cool cards and send us your ideas!
Keep the Moxtober heat up by hopping on our Discord and share your designs! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Spellslingers is a faster, simpler Magic built for phones. Tim and Wobbles discuss the game, which also leads to discussion of how it might impact Magic design. There's a surprising amount to learn, even if you don't intend to play!
There's a cool set of Dev Diaries for the game: https://magicspellslingers-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/sections/8450476707988-Developer-Diaries
Relax a moment with wobbles' art blog: https://wobbles.tumblr.com/
Keep the Moxtober heat up by hopping on our Discord and share your designs! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Our second half review has group activities, reading assignments, equations, essentials, practice, dino bullies (??), bigger bubbles, Brendans, monochrome, and biology. Enjoy all these sweet cards!
Moxtober stars Oct 1! Hop on our Discord and share your designs! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
We cover the first half of the Back 2 School challenge, and after getting into our first couple classes we also review our training, looking for a phone charger, adopt a green lifestyle, and hear about Teferi's school days.
Moxtober stars Oct 1! Hop on our Discord and share your designs! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Welcome to chapter ten of Design Rush, a quick-on-your-feet card design showcase, hosted by Juliet Louis!
This episode's contestants are Aaron & Caro!
Find Aaron (he/him):
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ehronlime
Spectres of Brocken Kickstarting right now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ehronlime/spectres-of-brocken
Find Caro (they/them):
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeaExcursion
Exquisite Biome: https://seaexcursion.itch.io/exquisite-biome
Follow @magicdesigncast and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Juliet and Kayiu compare and contrast the different nautical and underwater sets, both seen in the Summer Set Spotlight and beyond. They ask "What does it mean to be young near the shore?" and whether there's a satisfying or swashbuckling way to rekindle one's Timmy spirit as a designer, and discuss some fun facts about otters and different ideas for swimming mechanics in Magic.
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
"In a world of water, humanity battles against all of the horrors of the deep as what little land that remains sinks into the ocean."
Learn all about this artifacts-and-enchantments set where steampunk ships and engineers battle deep sea horrors!
Hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
This week we've got all of your submissions for the Commonaria Design Challenge!
We've got origin stories, multiple Squees, Danitha's boss, Teferi's timelines, deep lore, deep diving, first strike, Yawg's other son, combat triggers, death loops, Benalia, and Phyrexianized Merfolk.
Hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
This week we've got all of your submissions for the Commonaria Design Challenge!
We've got origin stories, multiple Squees, Danitha's boss, Teferi's timelines, deep lore, deep diving, first strike, Yawg's other son, combat triggers, death loops, Benalia, and Phyrexianized Merfolk.
Hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Brandon aka Slayerbfm stuck around to recap Magic Camp with Tim. This is a long weekend full of Magic, and we cover all the sweet formats we played! Cubes, commander, and more.
Hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Interested in stickers and "legacy"-style cubes? Brandon comes on the pod hot off back-to-back plays of his Chaos Cube! Phyrexian Mana, extra keywords, color shifting and more are all possible. If that's not exciting enough, there's a crazy flip mechanic that slowly morphs the cube from a C/U cube into a vintage cube! Tons to learn and be inspired by.
Chaos Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/boi
Hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
You loved it, we loved it, so it's back! Kayiu has picked a new group of cards from MSE Modern, the biggest format of custom Magic. He's quizzing Juliet and Adam on whether each of those cards is relevant in competitive MSEM or not! See if you can guess whether these cards are a hit or a miss.
We've got stars, witches, Mauras, heralds, seeds, guards, colorless, four-color, castles, trains, lizard bites, and dragon's breath all in the ep!
Read up on MSEM at: https://snapdragonfirework.wixsite.com/msem2
Check out Kayiu's new videos at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3bBSvBqn3OwxXNzO9YCLQ
Hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
A surprising number of very angry trees showed up to our design challenge, so we line them up and hear their complaints one by one. We've got a shrub looking for a quartet, a tree looking for some snowy peace and quiet, a five sided tree, a burning tree, a seventh tree, a wild ride, another burning tree, a decorated tree, and a final burning (but in a good way) tree.
You can submit a card to our new Commonaria challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
We're taking shelter under the yuletide tree to review your submissions for the latest design challenge! We've got double trees, angry trees, viking trees, provoking trees, flipping trees, trees for upper bodys, trees hands, giving trees, famous trees, and beastrees!
You can submit a card to our new Commonaria challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Juliet and Kayiu hit the waves to discover some cursed omens and trusty first mates of the pirate set Dark Seas of Shiryen by CanterburyEgg, in this second episode of a mini-series exploring different exciting executions on the idea of nautical planes.
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/dark-seas-of-shiryen
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Juliet and Kayiu hit the waves to discover some cursed omens and trusty first mates of the pirate set Dark Seas of Shiryen by CanterburyEgg, in this second episode of a mini-series exploring different exciting executions on the idea of nautical planes.
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/dark-seas-of-shiryen
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Kayiu gives Tim and Markus a tour of the MSE Modern format through a guessing game! MSEM is the largest custom format, encompassing ~60 sets. Kayiu brought a dozen cards and our game is to predict whether those cards matter in competitive play.
There are a bunch of wild cards this episode! Can you guess better than T&M? We've got woopip, bros, wubrg, flows, choices, pose(y), hundred card decks, all hands on deck, thinking twice, polyp pools, and orange orchards. Good luck!
Read up on MSEM at: https://snapdragonfirework.wixsite.com/msem2
Check out Kayiu's new videos at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3bBSvBqn3OwxXNzO9YCLQ
Hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
We've got another nine swines this week for our review of the When Pigs Fly Design Challenge! Listen in for suspended bibles, crying in the exile zone, a trip to nwotrovalf, HOPs, double bundles, and war trains.
You can submit a card to our new Christmas in July challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
It's a rare event when pigs fly, and it's a rare crossover with Tim and Juliet doing the Challenge Review! We've got floating flocks, Akroma-level pigs, apple cars, Homestuck, PbtA, Italian pilots, and more!
You can submit a card to our new Christmas in July challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Check out I'll be Pod for Castmas: https://pnc.st/s/ill-be-pod-for-castmas
Summer is here — let's hit the beaches! Juliet and Kayiu dive right into Elmare: Into the Abyss by Dodger in the first episode of this mini-series exploring different exciting executions on the idea of an underwater plane.
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/elmare-into-the-abyss
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
The Agonos cube aspires to bring a better Vintage cube experience. It's a blast to draft, and we had to get creator ThatDamnPipsqueak on to learn how to build Vintage-level drafting.
Two ways to check out the cube:
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/agonos-cube
https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/5e796ee57d65df45f542a03e
Catch drafts on our Discord or on MSE: https://discord.gg/b6DGJPMB29
Community contributor Redbay hops on the pod to get everyone hype for Milestone 9 of Castmire, to be completed soon! Lots of new cards and some great lessons learned this time around.
Castmire's can be found here: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/castmire or @createcastmire
Hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
We've got long-time community member, Goblin Artisan contributor, and long-necked avian Wobbles on the podcast this week.
The topic is Wobbles' cycle of monocolor mini-cubes, each tackling the constraint in a new way. You can check the lists here:
https://goblinartisans.blogspot.com/2021/09/cubelets-mini-cubes.html?m=1
These are inspired by several things, including:
Ryan Overturf's Twoberts: https://articles.starcitygames.com/magic-the-gathering/select/introducing-the-tempo-twobert/
Aaron Forsythe's Duplicate Sealed: https://twitter.com/ajlvi/status/1469746172436885509
You can submit a card to our new When Pigs Fly challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Tim and Markus go through your submissions to the Name Inverter challenge! We read, behold, channel and traverse a baker's dozen of piping hot cards.
You may submit a card to our new When Pigs Fly challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Juliet and Kayiu have seen exciting sets under the auspices of Old, New, and Borrowed, so today they check out Something Blue with the Deep Blue Cube by Timespiraled! While there they discuss the fundamental nature of color, rarity, and draft archetypes, and debate how good Delusions of Mediocrity can be in a world of Storm Crows and Welkin Terns.
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/deep-blue
As our Lorado episode this week was wrapping up, shadowcentaur kept reading the spoiler and having great memories of making the set. Not quite enough for a whole extra episode, but fun to hear.
Not all the card text is covered so you may want to have the set spoiler available for reference:
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/lorado
We've got another classic custom set this week, but with a twist. After diving into the history of Wild West set Lorado, we also look into a new project making Jumpstart packs with that set.
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/lorado
Ancestral's site is https://mtg.design
Ancestral used https://www.drivethrucards.com to print Lorado cards.
We've got two primo Alara experts on the podcast this week and we're designing cards! Mako, creator of the Alara custom set, puts Tim and Scribbl to the test with five design prompts. Bant redemption? Stealing houses in Unx?? Complicated block triggers???
Find more of Mako and Scribbl's work on these Discord servers:
MSE Modern: https://discord.gg/PeUkAfDP9A
Magic Set Editor: https://discord.gg/b6DGJPMB29
Also find Alara here: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/alara
You have our permission to enjoy all these sweet "may" cards! All of them provide a choice within their rules text. Join Tim and Markus in considering all the different wrinkles to these choices.
You may submit a card to our new Name Inverter challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Juliet and Kayiu continue their stay on a borrowed plane: ALARA by Mako! While there they debate who the most iconic planeswalker from Alara is, the logistics of how Grixis as a setting even works, limited bombs and constructed staples, and a broken card that's still fairer than Noble Hierarch.
Check out the preview articles for ALARA at: https://magicseteditor.boards.net/thread/1360/alara-maelstrom-masters
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/alara
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Juliet and Kayiu planeswalk into something borrowed: the inimitable ALARA by Mako! While there they check out some of the best documentation in all of custom set design, Encouraging combinations of flavor Tethered to mechanics, and how bottom-up sets can become top-down when they're returned to.
Check out the preview articles for ALARA at: https://magicseteditor.boards.net/thread/1360/alara-maelstrom-masters
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/alara
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
We challenged you all to give us your best "fool" cards. Check out the second half of the review where we get fully bamboozled.
Cards from: Juliet, Larcent, Bradley Rose, Wobbles, Home Slice, Redbay, Craftedlavaistrue, Iemcd, Bracsonian, jamesGover
Submit your card to our May Powers challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
It's fool or be fooled for Tim and Markus as they review your submissions to the April Fools challenge! This part covers these submissions:
- kuyashiiPlays
- BoofTroupe
- Dillon
- Tahanu
- underFlorence
- Thesixthroc
- MonoWhiteBorder
Future eps reviewing the rest of the challenge come soon!
Submit your card to our May Powers challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Returning guest Larcent shares his progress developing a set about changing weather. Each kind of weather has a material effect on the game and picking the right weather is a challenge. The set's other mechanics also have some cool ties to that central theme.
Check out the set here: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/storms-of-yerzivan
Jump into the discussion on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Castmire, our community developed set, is resuming development and we've got a handy introduction to get you excited! This is a great chance to get involved in the set.
Jump into the discussion on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
This week our guests are given a custom Commander and have to pick reprints and design new cards for that Commander's precon! Brewer MonoWhiteBorder and long-ago returning guest Gaby team up to crack "Roose, Waste Manager".
Share your ideas for Roose on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
The second half of Wednesday's challenge review! We talk about your lion and lamb cards and pick our favorites! Get in on the next Design Challenge by heading to our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Celebrate volatile March weather with the review of your Lamb and Lion cards!
Like the last few challenges, we got a lot of submissions! The second half of them will be reviewed in an ep released in a few days.
Get in on the next Design Challenge by heading to our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
In Eleventh Edition, we take an existing Magic card and make ten new versions of it. This time, Tim brings on 11E super-fan Christopher Lundgren, and they share and discuss their card designs that use Time Vault as a starting point.
Share your versions of Time Vault on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Looking to make your own Kamigawa cube? Tim and guest Dan Martin aka thesixthroc have both created and playtested Kamigawa block cubes. Together they discuss an overview of what's available in those sets, as well as individual cards and tips they've picked up.
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
The second half of our review session is here! We're covering cards from our It Takes Two challenge, where listeners designed cards based off of other designers' cards.
This ep was carved out of the recording session from Part 1, so some of the cards explained there aren't re-read here. Definitely listen in order!
Get in on the next Design Challenge by heading to our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Markus AKA Mark Confidant AKA Master of Challenges is back to help Tim review your submissions to the It Takes Two challenge! This challenge was extra cool because the entries we are reviewing all combo with cards from other designers!
We were so packed with submissions that we'll have a second ep, releasing Saturday.
Get in on the next Design Challenge by heading to our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Juliet and Kayiu check out a set from custom Magic's golden age: the brand-new Nangjiao in Bloom by CanterburyEgg! Along the way they study activated abilities mattering in an elegant way, recent returns to the same plane, constructed collaboration to make a vanilla creature matter, and what the deal is with all these foxes.
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/nangjiao-in-bloom
https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3bBSvBqn3OwxXNzO9YCLQ
Our first book review episode!
Perry K hops on the pod to discuss Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. This book takes place in a sprawling house, mostly empty of life but full of unusual statues and other phenomena. We give an overview of the setting and relate that to our work on custom set Castmire. In the back half of the ep, we go spoiler mode and discuss other parallels and inspirations with Magic lore.
Check out the show @magicdesigncast or @createcastmire
Juliet and Kayiu investigate the classic custom set Aenyr by Zervintz and its place in custom design history, whether art by definition requires audience, some of the great things Aenyr does to avoid common pitfalls of multicolor design, and the potential moral hazard of errata.
https://www.planesculptors.net/set/aenyr#cards
https://discord.gg/custommagic
https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Markus aka Mark Confidant aka Blonde Bob aka the Colorado Rocket Launcher joins up to help review your submissions for Design Challenge: New Year's Resolutions. This ep goes HEAVY, not just on the card ideas but also the potential of all these Alchemy mechanics!
Get in on the next Design Challenge by heading to our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
The Scholar of Segue joins the pod this week to talk through game design goals for 2022. We talk about all phases of making games, from testing to layout to printing!
Follow the show @magicdesigncast
New Year, new stuff!! Adam and Tim make some guesses on the 2022 Magic release slate, then choose sides on a bunch of predictions! Check our twitter and vote for who you agree with: @magicdesigncast
Our wave of Build a Guild content crests with a big discussion with "the Guildmaster" Kayiu!
We promise we will eventually release non-Guild content in the new year! :) See you then!!!
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Our Build a Guild challenge got so big we filled almost a month! We review the last crop of submissions. I hope you enjoy!
MonoWhiteBorder - GW - Exile Matters
James Gover - UG - untap ramp and syncs
Perryk - BG - 5 Color Ramp
Brad - UR - "Put Cards on the Bottom of your Library"
Wobbles - RW - Lands Fall Apart
Kayiu - UG - Enchantments & +1/+1 Counters
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
The dark middle chapter of our Build a Guild challenge! We got so many we made three eps of it. This ep has:
Justnigel - RW Nostalgic Hero
Leem - RG - Green Red Dragons.
Romacchino13 - UB - Return to Hand And Discard
Craftedlavaistrue - UB - saboteur matters
C2H6 - RB - Cheap (Low MV) Reanimation
Bonus Kayiu - BR - Multiple Activated Abilities
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
Our Build a Guild challenge, full of your super sweet archetype ideas, gets reviewed! We got so many we're splitting it into three eps. This ep has:
MBTree - BG - Deathtouch + Morbid
Juliet - RW - “1 Damage” Matters
Larcent - UB - Artifact Scavengers
Ian - WU - Aura Value
Dillon BW "not quite there" legend buff
Bonus Kayiu UW Untaps-Outside-Of-Untap-Step!
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
With Adam out, MonoWhiteBorder AKA Peter jumps on to Make it More Magical!
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
Upshift or downshift? We play a game where we start with a card, then either upshift or downshift it to a new rarity!
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
We review an amazing SIXTEEN submissions to our "Friends and Family" challenge. We asked for hybrid Red/White rares and got more submissions than there are existing cards! Adam saves the best for last and Tim gets into a tribal card.
Check out our "Build a Guild" challenge too, where you combine multiple gold cards across Magic history to form a new archetype. Details in the episode!
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
We're tackling "salty" Commander cards this week! Finding usable inspiration from some of the most oppressive cards around. A tough tasks makes for a long episode!
Cards discussed:
Stasis
Jokulhaups
Narset, Parter of Veils
The Tabernacle of Pendrell Vale
Extra turns cards
Rhystic Study
Narset, Enlightened Master
Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
Castmire is the spooky, spiraling mansion set that you can help develop! We finished up our 8th milestone (and Moxtober), so now it's time to test. There's a fun new way to track our testing and we're hyped to see all the cards in play.
Anything related to testing and Castmire can be found on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
We review your sweet Black/Green Pumpkin Patch cards!
You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
It's happening!!
The new Mechanical Color Pie article is out, and we're all eager to learn as much as we can! Adam and Tim take turns quizzing each other, and you can play along.
Mechanical Color Pie 2021 Changes | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Reddit summary of changes article
You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
Jeremy Geist is joining Wizards, and has left us a big challenge: Five Design Challenges for GDS4
In this ep we attempt part one of the challenge, designing seven cards to start as the seed of a limited archetype. You know Adam is taking it seriously when you hear his keyboard thunder!
You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
We bring MonoWhiteBorder back on to review your submissions for the Good Bones Morph/Visit commander! Tons of sweet (Ice Age??) cards and clever new cards!
You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Music by Dee Culp and fesliyanstudios.com
And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
We review your design submissions for our Midnight Hunt challenge! These are all sweet cards that would fit in the new Innistrad set!
You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
Mono-White aficionado MonoWhiteBorder joins us to brew a Commander precon!
New Design Challenge:
Submit one existing card and design one new card that fits with Good Bones:
"Good Bones" Hauzer 1W
Legendary Creature - Skeleton
You can't cast blue, black, red, or green spells.
Doors you control have "T: Add W, U, B, R, or G."
If a creature you control would die, you may turn it face down instead. It's a colorless Door land with "T: Add C".
Visit W
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You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
Lately, Adam's been playing Shandalar, the mid-90s RPG where you collect Magic cards to play against the AI. Let's dive into what makes this game still work today. G-Host Juliet also joins to share her knowledge.
You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast
Adam and Tim have a convo about the design of all these sweet new Innistrad cards!
You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast
We talk with Perry K about his focus channel and his experience working on Castmire!
You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire
We play a round of Make it More Magical, where we give each other an existing card and instructions on how to make it more... massive? Orzhov? Helpful? Listen and find out!
You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast
Tim went to a weekend-long Magic vacation with friends, and shares all the cool formats they played! In the episode:
Mini Masters (with house rules!)
Gold Cube
10-4 Cube
Mega Team Sealed RTR vs Theros
Power Cube
Tribal Commander Cube
You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast
Want to get caught up on Castmire? Adam does too! Now that he's back on the show, he's ready to go deep on the status of Castmire. Along the way we review the set's mechanics and what those mechanics imply about the rest of the construction of the set. Some basic changes to how we add cards to Castmire are also talked about: more and faster focus channels and decoupling Castmire dev from twitter polls.
Share your designs & jump into playtesting on Discord:
https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
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Welcome to chapter nine of Design Rush, a quick-on-your-feet Magic card design showcase, hosted by Juliet Louis!
This episode's contestants are Inanimate (Trevor) and Riley Rethal!
Check out The Education Trust: https://edtrust.org/what-you-can-do/donate/
Riley's game catalog: https://metagame.itch.io/
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Adam's back, so on this ep we're stretching our design legs with him and doing some randomized prompt designs. The twist here is after Adam and Tim each design a card, they then fuse their cards into one!
#1 - Green Common Instant "Interference"
#2 - Colorless Uncommon Artifact "Look"
#3 - Green Mythic Enchantment "Pleasing"
Special Collab Challenge:
#4 - Red Rare Instant "Scheme"
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It's our 200th episode! Join our celebration! Juliet emcees with Tim and returning host Adam roleplaying two new Planeswalkers arriving in the mansion for the first time. Meet Sydaeron and Kharsen and enjoy all the cameos by Castmire characters.
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We take a look at your custom Class submissions, including being a bird, a lot of bugs, and a good buddy.
No new Design Challenge yet, but check out mtg.design's Treasure week, and submit your cards!
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Tim quizzes Juliet & Bradley on their Castmire Milestone 7 playtest experiences.
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Bradley, Tim, & Juliet each design two cards that could fit within the Modern Horizons 2 set as well as co-design a seventh card together!
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Princess Lucrezia hidden theme EDH deck post:
https://medium.com/millingfor53/another-commander-the-3rd-7cd83ca0c043?source=friends_link&sk=a7db2acbee5ce9f0bf670c834046bffa
Bradley & Tim each share & discuss Knight card designs, commemorating MTG.Design's currently weekly design challenge, Knight Week!
Participate in Knight Week at: mtg.design
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Music & SFX: Rafael Krux, freefire66
Welcome to chapter eight of Design Rush, a quick-on-your-feet Magic card design showcase, hosted by Juliet Louis!
This episode's contestants are Wheels & Greg!
Pre-order The Ultimate Random Encounters Book:
bit.ly/RandomBook
Very Random Encounters: https://twitter.com/VREcast
Wheels: https://twitter.com/singularwheels
Greg: https://twitter.com/whitewing
https://www.leatherman.games/games/glitter-hearts
https://twitter.com/pkmncast
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The Castmire Banquet returns! Leading into finishing up Milestone 7, we review the survey results on what you all voted to move forward with from the community's suggestions.
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Welcome to chapter seven of Design Rush, a quick-on-your-feet Magic card design showcase, hosted by Juliet Louis!
This episode's contestants are Brianna & Jay!
Find Brianna:
Twitter: @priceofbrie
Salt Cravings: @SaltCravings
Brothers In Arms: https://weepingrobot.itch.io/brothers-in-arms
Find Jay:
Twitter: @zefferal
Goblin Artisans: http://goblinartisans.blogspot.com/
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Time to review the dozen submissions for DC64, looking for a black uncommon instant or sorcery for Castmire!
Which Murder is the right Murder that isn't Murder? Is this word greek or latin and what does it mean? What's the best way to get Inhabit weenies into the red zone? Can anyone else hear that heartbeat?
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Bradley and Tim take turns playing director. Choose a card, and demand it be made more... something?! What the director says, goes, and the designer has to make the perfect card!
This episode would have been the typical 30 minutes if SOMEONE hadn't decided to pick OLD FOGEY as a card to rework. Tune in to find out how THAT turned out!
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Leader of current Castmire focus channel for archetype signposts Larcent joins Tim & Juliet to discuss three types of archetype signpost designs.
Design challenge reminder:
DC64 "Without a Trace" - Design a black uncommon instant or sorcery that doesn't use Clues or Investigate.
Bonus points:
- A clean 1-for-1
- Something outside of token creation
Due May 24th 6PM
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We discuss your design submissions for Design Challenge 63: design a blue uncommon instant or sorcery spell.
Also announce kickoff of next focus channel.
Next design challenge:
DC64 "Without a Trace" - Design a black uncommon instant or sorcery that doesn't use Clues or Investigate.
Bonus points:
- A clean 1-for-1
- Something outside of token creation
Due May 24th 6PM
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Welcome to chapter six of Design Rush, a quick-on-your-feet Magic card design showcase, hosted by Juliet Louis!
This episode's contestants are:
Riley (He/They) & Andrew (He/Him)!
Releasing this week from Juliet:
To Teach Their Own by Mousewife Games
Available at: https://mousewifegames.itch.io/teach
Catch Andrew & Riley:
Stream Forever stream
Raising money for Asian Americans Advancing Justice
May 22nd, 10AM CST / 11AM EST
Find Riley:
Twitter: @Revryebread
Podcasts: Never Believe It!, If Not Us Then Who, The Podcast Mines, Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined
Games at: linksmithgames.com , mymothercangotohell.com
Find Andrew:
Twitter: @CohostSherms
Podcasts: The Podcast Mines, The ARGonauts Podcast
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We discuss our early impressions from Castmire's Milestone 6 playtest, individual cards both old and new shined in our takeaways from playtests so far.
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Tim & Bradley discuss Strixhaven with their first impressions of the design of the major mechanics and some of the College themes.
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Bradley still hasn't yet forged a sword.
Welcome to chapter five of Design Rush, a quick-on-your-feet Magic card design showcase!
This episode's contestants are Kayiu & Markus!
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Follow Markus on Twitter: @Mark_Confidant
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Tim & Bradley discuss Lorehold cards previewed on Monday, how red-white has played in the past in Limited and Commander, and Bradley's experience last weekend with his Adriana Commander deck.
Bradley hasn't yet forged a sword.
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Welcome to chapter four of Design Rush, a quick-on-your-feet head-to-head Magic card design challenge! This episode's two contestants are DesignSkeleton & MonoWhiteBorder!
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Follow Peter on Twitter: @MonoWhiteBorder
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We're reviewing your submissions for Castmire's new black legendary creature that is a guest in the mansion!
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It's the third chapter in the fast-paced, head-to-head Magic card design showdown, Design Rush! With contestants Natalie Libre & Esper Quinn!
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Follow Esper on Twitter: @EsperControl
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We're reviewing your Heavy Chandeliers and Strange Carpets to go with Dubious Lever. Hear our discussion and the finalists! Then, submit your entry for our second Design Challenge of Milestone 6:
DC62 “Bad First Impressions” - Design a black legendary creature that is a guest in the mansion. This character should have a profession or background, but not be a detective.
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The people demanded it and we brought it back! We've got two new challengers and four new cards to design. Still just a minute!
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We're kicking off Milestone 6 by checking out your focus channel submissions! M6 will be quick, containing just two Design Challenges and two Focus channels.
DC61 - "Pull the Lever!” - Design the Heavy Chandelier or Strange Carpet card that Dubious Lever references. Check here for the cards in the set: http://www.planesculptors.net/set/castmire
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A minute to design a Magic card?? Juliet hosts this game show and challenges Brad and Tim to push their design skills to the limit!
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Check out the great ideas coming from the Banquet! Lots of discussion on Castmire's development in this ep.
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Juliet and Tim get the details and lessons from Bradley's NaGaDeMon project, Conspiracy Jumpstart. This sweet Jumpstart format is built to be played Star format, where each player's win condition is eliminating the two players across from them. That means your neighbors are your conspirators, and deals abound.
ConspiracyJS: http://www.planesculptors.net/set/conspiracyjumpstart
Also check out our Castmire Banquet poll: https://forms.gle/gGfUrXtmvFCQpRpX8
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We review the submissions for DC 59 "Milestone 5 Jumpstart" - Design a Jumpstart pack of Castmire cards!
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Ten new versions of Path to Exile with Kess aka @Kesswylie aka kess.co!
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We're in mid-preview season for Kaldheim! Bradley & Tim discuss mechanics and cards and their impact from a Magic design lens.
DC 59 "Milestone 5 Jumpstart" - Design a Jumpstart pack of Castmire cards! You can use up to two reprints from outside Castmire in your pack. This is an extended deadline, but you may submit a second Jumpstart pack!
Due Monday, January 18th
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Milestone 5 of Castmire is wrapping up, meaning it's playtesting time! We get hype for the new cards and combos and lay out the schedule for playtesting.
DC 59 "Milestone 5 Jumpstart" - Design a Jumpstart pack of Castmire cards! You can use up to two reprints from outside Castmire in your deck.
Due Monday, January 11th
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Play along with this trivia and design quiz! Even if you don't know the card, your Magic design skills can still get you the right answer!
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There have been fifteen holiday cards in Magic, let's review their jokes and mechanics!
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Larcent joins the cast to check out the results of the Red/White, Red/Black, and Blue/Black focus channels, and talk about how they went so right. The cards came out great and we hear a lot about Larcent's experience leading a team.
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Tim and Juliet share their impressions of and give feedback on Nils's first custom Magic set, Yggdrassil: Battle for the Nine Realms. A set based on Norse mythology with a sprinkling of Scandinavian folklore!
Check out the Planesculptors set file:
http://www.planesculptors.net/set/yggdrassil#details
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Tim and Bradley discuss their efforts to help design an EDH deck for Bradley that maximizes fun. This means a deck that actually can win rather than using one of Bradley's low-powered artistic deck creations in a game of Commander, which can actually LOWER fun for everyone!
Bradley's Virtus decklist:
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/virtus-for-vendetta-1/?cb=1607996988
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We talk about putting art on Castmire playtest cards and review your design challenge submissions. What exactly did Jeff eat for lunch? How deep does Castmire go if it's got fish pirates? Did that lich really have to go and cut their hand off?
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Ten new versions of Prodigal Sorcerer with Robby aka @mtgcolorpie!
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Juliet's project for November was to make 5 custom Jumpstart packs, all set in Ravnica. Solving the multicolor issues with some serious use of hybrid, we break down all the factors that make it tick. Does the color pie change if you're requiring multiple land types in the deck? What is a Syzygy?
Castmire Design Challenge:
DC57 - “Uncanny Likeness” - Design any uncommon card. However, you also have to link art for the card. Due: Dec 7th
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We check out rare visit card submissions for Castmire. Topics include: Acceptable complexity of visit cards between common and rare; supporting visit-based decks; and flavorful callbacks.
Next Design Challenge:
DC57 - “Uncanny Likeness” - Design any uncommon card. However, you also have to link art for the card. Due: Dec 7th
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Commander Legends is coming out and Tim played ten hours of Commander over the weekend. He and Bradley give their ideas on what the set accomplishes and what we can learn about multiplayer design.
Are we just too scared about not getting a commander in draft? Has there been a mechanic with more game actions than Encore? Why did anyone attack before Monarch came around? Is there a mechanic more irrationally loved than Cascade?
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We check out Green Visit and Inhabit submissions. Topics include: Should some Visit be instant? How do you make common-level visit effects? Do beasts better fit Visit or Inhabit? What words of wisdom do baby pigs have for us?
Next Design Challenge:
DC56 - “Beyond the Red Room” - Design a Non-Red Rare with Visit, either a Creature or an Artifact. Due Nov 23rd
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Mark_Confidant, Kayiu, & Ancestral of MTG.Design join Bradley for this Moxtober 2020 wrapup, discussing creating cards, sharing designs with communities, and other Moxtober takeaways.
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@Mark_Confidant
@kayiu102
@mtgdotdesign
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We've learned a lot developing the Castmire custom set with the community, and in this episode we delve into our recent breakthrough: focus channels. With a good portion of Castmire fleshed out, we tasked a group of designers with producing the best four cards they could, together.
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Be our guest for this design challenge episode! Hear about all the fun furniture cards submitted by listeners.
Design Challenge (Due Monday 6PT):
DC54 - "Your Humble Teapot" - Design a legendary artifact creature a la the named items and furnishings from Beauty and the Beast.
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We dive in on our Cluedo Suspects challenge submissions, including four new submitters!
Design Challenge (Due Monday 6PT):
DC54 - "Your Humble Teapot" - Design a legendary artifact creature a la the named items and furnishings from Beauty and the Beast.
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Learn about our winning color pair pitches and our new way to collaborate on these color pairs, Focus Channels.
Challenge Reminder (Due Monday 6PT):
DC 53 - "Cluedo Suspect" - Design a creature in an uncommon monocolor legendary creature cycle. Cluedo, aka Clue, is a board game and movie where every aristocratic character is a suspect.
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We've got the first results from the Banquet, our suggestion box-like way to pitch assorted ideas about Castmire!
Next Week's Challenge:
DC 53 - "Cluedo Suspect" - Design a creature in an uncommon monocolor legendary creature cycle. Cluedo, aka Clue, is a board game and movie where every aristocratic character is a suspect.
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Ten new versions of Shivan Dragon with the custom magic podcasting godfather, Reuben Covington!
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Dive into Moxtober, the hot new craze sweeping custom magic design!
Kayiu102's youtube channel, with daily Moxtober vids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3bBSvBqn3OwxXNzO9YCLQ
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Have quick ideas for Castmire? Send them in for the Banquet: https://forms.gle/nndHVeVSozmjZZza6
Discussing feedback from the Castmire playtest results from Milestone 4 and pitches for color pairs and other packages going into Milestone 5.
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Hot off the Banquet announcement and following some great playtesting, we review submissions for our Cornerstone challenge. These cards find inspiration from gaps in Castmirelimited decks.
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Castmire Banquet is our fun new way of allow you to submit your ideas and feedback, and have it shared with the community! We are collecting everything you send in and will serve it up for everyone to feast on!
Form for direct submission: https://forms.gle/nndHVeVSozmjZZza6
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Twitter updates @CreateCastmire
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Juliet joins Bradley & Tim to discuss the limitations, challenges, and design philosophy of designing for the Jumpstart format.
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We review your Castmire Jumpstart pack submissions as we begin the Milestone 4 playtesting phase for Castmire!
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Ten new versions of Balance with guest host Dillon Brown aka @EctoCoolerRanch !
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We talk about the potential behind all our reprint suggestions for Castmire. Milestone 4 is only a week away!
Next Week's Challenge:
DC50 "Jumpstart for Joy" - Design a Jumpstart-sized pack of Castmire cards. You can include up to two new reprints and two new designs in your submissions.
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We are observing the suspects and double-checking alibi's for this week's challenge! Lots of great detective and discovery cards in this episode!
Next Week's Challenge:
DC 49 - "All the Cards That're Fit to (re)Print" - Submit a card in Magic that would be interesting or fun as a reprint in Castmire.
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This week we're reviewing our Housecleaning challenge submissions. It's time to fix all the little problems with Castmire! Every room will be sparkling by the time you finish listening.
Next Week's Challenge:
DC 48 - "Who Could Have Done This" - Design a flavorful or trope-y Murder Mystery card, which depicts neither the act of murder nor the murderer as the sole subject of the card. The main criteria of the challenge is the connection between the mechanics and the ability for the reader to recognize something familiar in the story of the card, even without knowing Castmire specifically.
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We've got another dozen design submissions to discuss this week, this time centered around the Green White theme of a group of creatures with different types!
Next Week's Challenge:
DC 47 - “Housecleaning” - Suggest a change to a card or set of cards in the Castmire set file. This is a change to clean up name, creature type, size, or other things that are out of date or out of sync. Or perhaps some flavor is off, or there are too many cards of a certain mana cost or effect.
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Ten new versions of Raise Dead with guest host Jay Zeffren aka @Zefferal !
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We excited to talk about the dozen submissions we got for our WU Equipment challenge!
Next Week's Challenge:
DC46 - "Of Mice and Menagerie" -Design a Green or White card that fits especially well in a GW Menagerie deck, and less well outside of that. For this challenge we aren't looking for the typical "uncommon signpost gold card".
The current menagerie ability is "Whenever ~ attacks, if there are five or more different subtypes among creatures you control, [some effect]."
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Catch up on Visit in Castmire, then listen to our huge variety of new RG Visit submissions!
Next Week's Challenge:
DC45 - "Inspector’s Gadget" - Design a White or Blue card that fits especially well in a WU Equipment deck, and less well outside of that. For this challenge we aren't looking for the typical "uncommon signpost gold card".
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Ten new versions of Fact or Fiction with guest host @Mark_Confidant !
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Bradley and Tim go over the results of the Castmire themes poll, talk about the top finishers, then discuss their experiences in the Castmire Milestone 3 playtest!
DC 44 - Red Means Stomp, Green Means Go - Design a R or G Visit-related card that fits especially well in an RG Visit Stompy deck, and less well outside of that. For this challenge we aren't looking for the typical "uncommon signpost gold card".
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Our Lightning Bolt episode went over so well that Tim and Juliet made 10 editions of Explore!
We're also experimenting with leaving in more of the conversation in the podcast version and trimming the content down for the Youtube video.
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Let's make ten riffs on Lightning Bolt!
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Bradley and Tim review your sweet Castmire Jumpstart pack lists, review the new cards, and give our impressions of Jumpstart as a playtest strategy.
DC 43 - Describe the Suspect - Identify one or two cards in the current Castmire set file that needs one or more changes. Describe what should be changed and why without providing a suggested solution. This will be a potential flagged card for redesigning at a later point.
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Bradley and Tim discuss the development of a new mechanic for Tim's Planeswalkers-as-Commanders-in-Limited set, "Contenders".
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1:17 Contenders intro
4:04 Mercenaries mechanics and flavor
10:42 Counters in Contenders
13:50 Reinforce
16:15 Bloodrush
18:40 Modular
22:41 Unleash
25:01 Renown
32:42 Introducing Mobilize
38:24 Red Mobilize
41:40 Mobilize Land
47:14 Uncommon brainstorming
55:44 Other keywords with Mobilize
1:01:34 Mobilize Name
Bradley and Tim discuss your pitches for color pair archetypes in Castmire to think about ahead of Milestone 3.
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For his fourth return to Beacon of Creation, guest host Rob (AlchemyPrime) joins Bradley and Tim to discuss the Jumpstart format and some card highlights from the set.
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Famed G-host Juliet joins the cast to talk us through some more issues facing WotC lately and how the podcast could respond. Then we jump into DC40's off-color activation cards, which have some wild technology going on.
DC41 - (stephen fry voice) Themes - Suggest a color pair's draft theme/subthemes, with up to 60 words we can read on the podcast about that theme.
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We are joined by community members Unstable Saucer and Larcent to discuss our picks for interesting designs in M21.
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We review updates to existing cards in the Castmire file with the inhabit and jumpscare mechanics.
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Adam is leaving Beacon of Creation and Magic. He talks about his reasons for doing so at the start of this episode.
Zaiem Beg's "The Wizards I Know": https://twitter.com/zbeg/status/1269962379925708801
This episode also covers Inhabit card designs.
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Our weekend episode tackles the next step of building a cube: cutting cards from your first pass of ideas. Tim cooked up a list of cards for a possible Zendikar cube, pulling cards from both Z-blocks. Joining him and Bradley are returning guests Rob AKA Alchemyprime and Markus AKA Mark_Confidant. This episode is packed with lots of discussions about individual cards, the context this cube creates for those cards, and how to approach cutting cards when all of them are so sweet.
Markus recommended this tweet thread in the episode: https://twitter.com/SixthComma/status/1261688215179853824
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Next week: DC38 "Back Again" - Redesign up to two cards in the file based on what won the flashback haunt poll.
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For our bonus episode this weekend, we take a break from custom Magic design and instead start building a cube together! This episode is more free flowing, with a lot of little insights and ideas.
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Next week: DC37 "Startling Changes" - Propose a change to the startle mechanic and showcase it with an existing startle card in the set.
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We double up the pod this week for a discussion of Contender's loyalty rules, its limitations discovered in testing, and a whole slew of alternates.
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Next week: DC36 "Be Our Guest" - Submit up to two flashback-style haunt cards at common with Dillon's flavor in mind.
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We talk about how the Castmire playtesting went for Milestone 2 and talk a lot about haunt and startle and the future of those mechanics.
We onboard new folks and talk a bit about Milestone 2 and the direction Castmire is going.
Next week: DC35 "Be Our Guest" - Write a short description of why and how the residents of Castmire are in the form of animated furniture. (800 words or less.)
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In which your heroes talk about startle and go over user submitted designs.
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We review the second half of our Haunting submissions and discuss possible paths forward for Haunting on Castmire!
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We outline Milestone 2 and review DC31's haunting designs. DC32's discussion will come later this week.
Next week: DC33 "Red Scare" - Red common creature that startles.
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The missing middle of episode 117 is here! We lovingly tear into all of the Visit alternative ideas for more than an hour!
Time Warp sound effect by Mike Koenig
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We review your submissions for tweaks to Castmire cards after the Milestone 1 playtest. A second, monster episode about Visit is coming later this week!
DC31 "Haunter" - Design a card that includes haunting a card in a way that makes it better.
DC32 "Haunted" - Design a card that rewards haunting.
Time Warp sound effect by Mike Koenig
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Our weekend playtest with the Castmire community generated tons of data! We go over the results of the surveys, which leads into lots of little discussions on cards in the set.
The design challenges this week do some new things, so be sure to listen to the episode for more info!
Design Challenge 29 "Tweak the Numbers" - Change one number on a card in Castmire. (ex. increase/decrease power or toughness or casting cost)
Design Challenge 30 "Revisit" - Pitch a different version of Visit. This will be tried out in the set as an alternate to current Visit.
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G-Host Juliet joins us as we talk Castmire playtesting!!! Get excited!!! The fun starts this Saturday! We also review some chunky white creatures and some a-Door-able green rares.
There's no card design challenge this week. Instead, the challenge is to submit flavor text for a card in the Castmire set!
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Supremely helpful Discord member Mark A (what does the A even stand for????) joins us to review some of the last few commons for Castmire Milestone 1! It's almost time to playtest all of our community's hard work!
Next week's Design Challenges:
DC27 “Big and Scar(ed/y)!!” - Design a large white uncommon creature with a startle ability.
DC28 “Plant Food for Thought” - Design a green rare or mythic rare to finish our rare slots!
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With the end of Castmire Milestone 1 approaching, we review some of the remaining keywords and costs that each color are missing.
Next week's Design Challenges:
DC25 “Black Hole” - Make a black common based on what we just talked about.
DC26 "With Sugar" - Make a common nonblack card that is a french vanilla.
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Bradley reports back from Reno! Then, Design Challenge reviews where we discover items behind doors and spells that were inside us all along.
Next week's Design Challenges:
DC23 "Home Renovation" - Rework a previous submission to Castmire that didn't make it into the file. Bonus points for reworking someone else's card!
DC24 "New Wing Under Construction" - Make a new card that works well with an existing card in the Castmire file.
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Creeping Background and Tolling Bell by Daniel Simion
Thunder by Mike Koenig
Following our new listener episode last week, we switch back into going deep on listener design challenge submissions! We've got equipment-loving blue creatures and deadly hexproof creatures to review.
Next week's Design Challenges:
DC21 “Look What I Found” - An equipment card with visit.
DC22 “Look What I Learned” - A big spell that someone learned in Castmire.
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New to the podcast or new to custom Magic cards? This episode is designed to get you up to speed! Juliet Louis joins us to help describe what it's like to make your own Magic card sets. We also introduce you to Castmire, the spooky mansion plane.
DC19 “Suit Up” - A common blue creature that cares about equipment.
DC20 “Did you see that?” - A green or multicolored hexproof creature with a hard-to-see flavor.
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Bradley grills Tim about his Magic-packed weekend, talking about a wide variety of Magic formats. Then the two hosts discuss cards themed around The Exit and a bunch of super-funny cards referencing real world characters.
No design challenges this week to make room for a big Castmire recap next week!
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Continuing our march to fill up Castmire with sweet cards, we talk about some haunted house tropes and dive into some sweet challenges!
Design challenges, due Feb 10th, 6pm PT:
DC17 "Exit Strategy" - An uncommon showing someone looking for The Exit.
DC18 "Referential Treatment” - A card that directly references a character in pop culture.
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The original Goblin King, Jay Zeffren, stops by to talk about GoblinGame and review a bunch of design challenges!
Design challenges, due Feb 3rd, 6pm PT:
DC15: "Resonance Theory" - A common showing off a haunted house trope. Such as: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HauntedHouse
DC16: “Goblin King in Exile” - Design a rare goblin lord that you wouldn’t be upset drafting early in a set without much goblin support.
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We talk villains and review villain and signpost cards! And what is that shadow gathering among us...
Design challenges, due Jan 27th, 6pm PT:
DC13: "Lord's Command" - Design a white card that is strong in commander.
DC14: "Commoner's Disobedience" - Design a black card that is strong in pauper.
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Larcent joins the podcast to discuss Theros: Beyond Death!
Design challenges, due Jan 20th, 6pm:
DC11: "Nefarious Plan" - A legendary monocolored villain and their signature spell.
DC12: "Sign Language" - An uncommon multicolored draft signpost card.
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Adam, Bradley and Tim each bring a cycle to talk about and then review DC10, which is about haunting cycles in Castmire.
No design challenge this week. We're saving lots of time to talk about Theros: Beyond Death next week!
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Ada, Bradley and Tim ring in the new year with three more Castmire challenges.
Next week's design challenge is: DC10 - “Spin Cycle” Make a cycle of commons with a haunting theme.
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Bradley and Tim invite early Castmire star Markus Leben, AKA @Mark_Confidant, to discuss the second batch of design challenges!
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2:58 DC4 - "Where Am I?"
31:36 DC5 - "Who is That?"
1:04:32 DC6 - "What is This?"
1:28:28 - Next Week's Design Challenges
We discuss all the hot topics from Castmire's relaunch and review entries for the first three design challenges!
3:54 Castmire Hot Topics
17:51 DC1 - "Common Sense" Discussion
35:57 DC2 - "Uncommon Goods" Discussion
56:05 DC3 - "Rare Character" Discussion
1:19:02 New Design Challenges:
DC4 - "Where Am I?" - Make a card with the flavor of the player investigating where they are.
DC5 - "Who is That?" - Make a card that uses an unusual creature type.
DC6 - "What is This?" - Make a card with the flavor of an improvised or discovered spell or piece of equipment.
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Castmire, the custom set born along with Beacon of Creation, returns! We invite Trevor Cashmore, the number one Castmire fan, on the podcast to talk about all the sweet new stuff planned for the set's relaunch!
DC1: "Common Sense" - Make a common card that could show up on Castmire, but not other plane in Magic.
DC2: "Uncommon Goods" - Make an uncommon artifact, enchantment, or land that ties into the "interplanar menagerie" flavor of Castmire.
DC3: "Rare Character" - Make a rare creature, either native to Castmire or left behind from one of the portals.
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Tim's Contenders set had an update recently and we cover the changes!
Next week's challenge: GET HYPE for next week's 100th episode!
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Brad shares some questions from the process of making a core set for the National Game Design Month. Then we review some bonus Costumes and the Soul of X challenge.
Next week's challenge: Design a card named "Dwarven ________"
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Three more days of Moxtober custom designs, plus Costumes for Brad's Halloween Cube! These costumes are super sweet special cards that are drafted along with the cube but you wear rather than playing them in your deck.
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Our Moxtober and Halloween plans had to be postponed for a week, so Gaby joins Tim for an episode discussing cubes and cube picks. Think of this as a bonus episode that we're sneaking into regular numbering. Like how Zelda 2 was a crazy side scroller and then they went back to normal after.
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We review the fourth full week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com
If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twitter, post them on Discord, or send them to cards@beaconofcreation.com !
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We review the third thrilling week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com
If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twitter, post them on Discord, or send them to cards@beaconofcreation.com !
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We review the second exciting week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com
If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twitter, post them on Discord, or send them to cards@beaconofcreation.com !
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We review the first week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com
If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twitter, post them on Discord, or send them to cards@beaconofcreation.com !
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Learn about the unique aspects to Bradley's Halloween Cube! This spooky set twists things a little beyond the usual Innistrad cube.
Our challenge for next week: Design a costume piece. You'll have to listen to the episode to learn what that means!
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We combine our and your Eldraine card ideas for this all-design challenge episode. Covering new ways to use Adventure, Adamant, equipment, and more!
Our challenge for next week: Design a colored artifact that couldn't be an enchantment (and isn't an equipment).
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Inspired by last week's talk of old cards in the Estate Sale Cube, the hosts select and discuss a variety of old card designs that have bad aspects to them. Then we discuss the retro card design challenge.
Our challenge for next week: Design a card that mechanically fits in Eldraine.
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A bonus weekend episode featuring a crack-a-pack of Estate Sale Cube. Special guest Alchemyprime hops in to help give us a fresh perspective.
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This jumbo-sized episode is priced to move! Dive into Adam's design philosophies behind Estate Sale Cube and follow us into a "crack a pack" from the set. We also talk through our mix-and-match design challenge and some exile cards from listener Luke.
Our challenge for next week: Design an over-costed card that would fit in a set from around 1997.
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A whole variety of ideas and projects discussed in this episode! Estate Sale Cube, 2HG Conspiracy, Halloween Cube, Seven Wonders draft, Revisions Cube, Innistrad, and more! We also talk bioscientists and Ryan Sainio's Retelling mechanic.
Our challenge for next week: In the spirit of our grab bag episode, give us a card that combines two existing abilities into one card.
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The team behind Alch Plays Games jumps joins us for an episode on all the crazy Magic fun we had at MFLV!
Our challenge for next week: Design a shapeshifter or bioscientist card.
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All energy in this (kinda?) Adam-less episode! We cover the state of Energy design, offer our mechanical ideas, then review a bunch of Energy-themed Commander cards!
Our challenge for next week: Create a shapeshifter or bioscientist card.
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This week we cover new designs for all four Commander 2019 decks!
Our challenge for next week: Create an Energy Commander or cards that would fit in an Energy-themed deck!
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We discuss two more Contenders archetypes and discuss your submissions for the Green-White archetype!
Our challenge for next week: Create a card that would fit in one of the Commander 2019 decks!
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We discuss the use of color pair archetypes in Contenders and deep dive into two of them! Also we cover your fairy tale designs.
Our challenge for next week: Define the GW archetype for Contenders and design cards for it. See http://www.planesculptors.net/set/contenders
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We talk about Eldraine, new boosters, and Brawl's future!
Our challenge for next week: send in your best fairy tale card!
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Main topic and design challenge fuse in this episode, covering many custom designs that would fit in M20!
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With Core Set 2020 out in the wild, we dive into our design impressions of the set. At the end we cover your wild MH1 custom designs!
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We riff on Modern Horizons design space, designing cards that would fit into that set! Then we check out the results of the four color world design challenge.
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Belly up to the table for a humongous episode packed with 25+ card evaluations. Both Adam and Shadow Host James Gover went deep on Bradley's 4-color world and came up with a ton of designs. Lots of great discussion about individual cards!
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Brad shows his work on his four color, Vegas-y entertainment world!
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Tim covers the updates to the latest version of his Contenders set, and Bradley and Adam give their opinions and ideas. Also we cover last week's "Single Sliver" design challenge, and there are some spicy ones!
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Inspired by Modern Horizons, we cover the history of slivers and discuss a bunch of possible new slivers!
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Part 3 of 3 of the Ignite the Beacon crossover! This week we bring on guests Michelle (@BalefireStrix of Loregoyfs), April (@CubeApril of Scryfall and... Cubes?) and Ryan (@RyanSainio of Hipsters of the Coast). We talk event-based set design, Scryfall, and much more.
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Part 2 of 3 of the Ignite the Beacon crossover! This week we bring on guests Reuben Covington (of Remaking Magic and many custom sets), Carl Duzett (of Netropolis) and Trevor Cashmore (of Tesla). We talk playtesting, limited design, the Custom Magic Discord, and much more.
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Design challenges due Monday, May 6th by 7pm.
Top-Down challenge: Castmire's Buy-a-box promo using a mechanic that's not in the set.
Bottom-up challenge: Design Castmire's dual land cycle.
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Design challenges due Monday, April 29th by 7pm.
Top-Down challenge: Castmire's Buy-a-box promo using a mechanic that's not in the set.
Bottom-up challenge: Design Castmire's dual land cycle.
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Design challenges due Monday, April 22nd by 7pm.
Top-Down challenge: A card draw spell that feels white and is not just a cantrip.
Bottom-up challenge: Design a legendary headwear equipment.
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Design challenges due Monday, April 15th by 7pm.
Top-Down challenge: Revise a Castmire Exemplar card. Bonus points if it fits into the set's motifs in an interesting way.
Bottom-up challenge: Design a spell that shows transmutation magic without changing power/toughness or replacing the card the another.
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Design challenges due Monday, April 8th by 7pm.
Top-Down challenge: Design Garruk's Axe.
Bottom-up challenge: Design an uncommon planeswalker using the WAR template.
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Design challenges due Monday, April 1st by 7pm.
Top-Down challenge: Design a Contender.
Bottom-up challenge: Design a card with the word dumbwaiter in the name.
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Design challenges due Monday, March 25th by 7pm.
Top-Down challenge: A door using the Visit mechanic.
Bottom-up challenge: A card named Neverending Hallway.
Bonus Challenge!: A cycle of cards showing love.
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Design challenges due Monday, March 18th by 7pm.
Top-Down challenge: A door using the Visit mechanic. (see beaconofcreation.com for exact wording)
Bottom-up challenge: A card named Neverending Hallway.
Bonus Challenge!: A cycle of cards showing love.
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Design challenges due Monday, March 4th by 7pm.
Top-Down challenge: An artifact that is a lantern.
Bottom-up challenge: A white card with “1W, Sacrifice a clue:”
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Design challenges due Monday, Feb 25 by 7pm.
Top-Down challenge: In honor of (https://itch.io/jam/short-rest) short rest jam, design a card that works as a short rest.
Bottom-up challenge: A mana dork that interacts with any version of Haunt, Startle, or Investigate.
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Design challenges due Monday, Feb 18 by 7pm.
-Top-down challenge: A card based on Disney’s “The Haunted Mansion”, “Phantom Manor”, or “Mystic Manor”
-Bottom-up challenge: A green four-drop that eats (or uses) clues.
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Design challenges due Monday, Feb 11 by 7pm.
-Top-down challenge: A planeswalker with only one loyalty ability.
-Bottom-up challenge: A spirit or elemental native to Castmire that's tricksy but helpful.
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Design challenges due Jan 21at 7pm.
-Top-down challenge: Design a card based on something that scares you personally.
-Bottom-up challenge: Design a removal spell that affects at least two creatures.
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Design challenges due Jan 7 at 7pm.
-Top-down challenge: An equipment or vehicle you would find in a mansion.
-Bottom-up challenge: A build-around uncommon that works with startle.
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Design challenges due Dec 24 at 7pm.
Top down:
Big holiday meal or get-together.
Bottom up:
Your take on gates, only one per cycle needed.
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Design challenges due Dec 10 at 7pm.
-Top-down challenge: Design a card that evokes the sensation of being “indoors”.
-Bottom-up challenge: Design a red common that dabbles in undermined design space for red.
-Bonus challenge: Design some common trespass cards.
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Our design challenges for next week are due Sunday, Dec 3, at 8pm Pacific Time.
-Design a common creature with haunt.
-Design a rare "mystery" card that uses clues.
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Our design challenges for next week are due Monday, Nov 26, at 8pm Pacific Time.
-Design a rare for constructed.
-Design a green common that cares about the graveyard.
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Our design challenges for next week are due Sunday, Nov 18, at 8pm Pacific Time.
-Design a white common that gains life, but without lifelink.
-Design a black common that is a helpful aura.
-Design a rare signpost card for one of the archetypes we talked about on the episode.
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Theme song is Hey, Happy Birthday to You by Dee Culp
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For Brad's Princess Lucrezia list, check his blog here: https://millingfor53.blogspot.com/2018/02/another-commander-3rd.html
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This week's challenges:
Host/Augment: A vertical cycle that must use only one or two lines of rules text.
Worldbuilding challenge: Design a story spotlight card that features two of the created planeswalkers from last week. (see madolaf.com for a full list)
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Host/Augment design challenge: Make a lord that is an uncommon gold draft direction card.
World Building Challenge: Find a previously designed card that fits in our setting, and mention how it fits.
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Theme song is Hey, Happy Birthday to You by Dee Culp
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Join us as we introduce ourselves to the world. We talk about the Explore mechanic, start a Design Challenge, and get the ball rolling on GDS3!
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Theme song is Hey, Happy Birthday to You by Dee Culp
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