• Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod

    Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod

    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…

  • Create a Custom Set in a Month!

    Create a Custom Set in a Month!

    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…

  • Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities

    Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities

    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.

Card of the Day

  • Prize-Winning Griffin

    Meant to help push an aspect of the enchantment theme in WUR in Contenders. Adds a mana on top of Heliod’s Pilgrim in exchange for an extra power and flying. A great base to build Auras onto!

    Designed By Tim Reilly
  • Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod

    Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod

    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…

  • Design Crossover – Teamfight Tactics w/Shawn Elizabeth Main!

    Design Crossover – Teamfight Tactics w/Shawn Elizabeth Main!

    We’ve got a super cool guest for our episode this week! Principal game designer on the new Teamfight Tactics season, Shawn Elizabeth Main!!

  • Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities

    Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities

    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.

  • Ju-Lie Challenge Review

    Ju-Lie Challenge Review

    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!

  • Star-Crossed Lovers of New Capenna

    Star-Crossed Lovers of New Capenna

    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! The pitch fuses Capenna’s angels and demons world with families, weddings, and duels of honor.

  • Card Coliseum: Sudden Death

    Card Coliseum: Sudden Death

    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!…

  • Final Fantasy Tactics (Advance!) Set w/ Judge Bones

    Final Fantasy Tactics (Advance!) Set w/ Judge Bones

    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…

  • Finality Fantasy Challenge Review

    Finality Fantasy Challenge Review

    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…

  • Live Design: Dual Lands, Novelty, and Callback

    Live Design: Dual Lands, Novelty, and Callback

    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 sequencing.

  • Cube Cube and More Cube! Washington Cube Champs Recap w/daisyama and zurishmi

    Cube Cube and More Cube! Washington Cube Champs Recap w/daisyama and zurishmi

    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!

  • Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics

    Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics

    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…

  • May B.C. Challenge Review

    May B.C. Challenge Review

    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.