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Love Song of Day and Night
Juliet and Khord celebrate Carly Rae Jepsen’s new album by looking back on magic’s use of Night and Day, from its first inception of art through the surprises of jelly doughnuts all the way to a midnight hunt before arriving at the Echoverse of Reality Fracture. Then, they turn the tables with a new mechanic…
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Sup-tember Challenge Review, part 2
We challenged you to make food that speaks to a setting! You might say these submissions are packed with flavor!
Card of the Day
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Designed By Tim ReillyMeant 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!
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Cube, Coop, and and Collusion at Magic Camp 2026
Our trips to the beach for Magic Camp are always filled with some big swings and fun games. Tim’s friend Keith hops on to the pod to help recap a successful outing full of inspiration for cube, card design, and formats.
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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!!
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Sup-tember Challenge Review
This week we’re talking about your flavor-blasted food cards! Tell us about your setting through the lens of its edibles. Food themes can be hard to make work in limited, but many of our submitters aimed for the bonus points here and gave us cool uncommons. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Topics and Tidbits Submissions…
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Talkin’ Tolkien! Jump-starting Hobbit Precon Design
Host Juliet and Guest Leo have a grand discussion of the cards from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets, what new players can learn just from a pack of cards, how to design a Jumpstart set that’s accessible, whether Blue is the hardest color, how you name a horse’s color, and how you…
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Talkin’ Tokens! The Highs and Lows of Token Design
With the new Empower Jace mechanic from Reality Fracture, we’ve got tokens on the mind! From format-defining tokens to one-off nostalgia cards, we dive deep into the world of tokens. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Topics and Tidbits
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Aug-erload Challenge Review, part 2
Our challenge review block comes to a close with some wild text-changing effects! Ogre-load, Servos, Carbo-load, and maybe the hardest to track card we’ve ever reviewed (in a fun way)! Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Submissions Juliet Khord Pat JamesDaltonBell WUBRG_Nich PlayersGrade justnigel Xena https://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/list-of-pronouns.html kuyashiiPlays Mini Larcent rexxer3 Topics and Tidbits
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Aug-erload Challenge Review, part 1
Summer challenge time continues! We’ve got a whole new set of challenges and cards to review. Text changing effects can be quite tricky and unusual, so it takes a lot of unpacking to get to the root of each of them.
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Incarnation Challenge Review, part 3
Incarnations embody the feeling of an “exciting cycle”. Tune in for our first “reverse challenge” where our member Xena challenges Juliet!
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Incarnation Challenge Review, part 2
Tune in as we unpack and understand another crop of alien, ephemeral Incarnations! This challenge really brought out the mind bending rules text. We’ve got nine powerful cards to review, some of which are shooting for our “could be in Foundations” bar for complexity. Did anyone make it? Check out the episode! Scryfall gallery of…
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Incarnation Challenge Review, part 1
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?
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Rebel Yell! Learn about New Requiem: Crossfire
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.