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/
Reverse-Engineering a Definition Video Essay: https://youtu.be/0DosgFDJ7tw
IgnitedxSoul’s original pitch for the Micro-set:
A Micro-set is 45 Unique Cards with cohesive flavor and mechanics that obeys the following guidelines:
Rarity Counts:
6 Rares (or Mythics)
12 Uncommons
27 Commons
Restrictions:
All Rarities:
-No Lands
Rares (or mythics) / Uncommons:
-No two cards of the same rarity share a color identity
-At least 9 creatures
Commons:
-4 of each Mono-Color
-3 Colorless
-4 Wild Cards (All with unique color identity from eachother)
-At least 12 creatures
NOTE: A micro-set should feel like a distilled version of a standard set as much as possible. Minimize the number of non-evergreen/deciduous mechanics and have an overarching theme for the set.
Mentioned in this episode:
Duplicate sealed and the magic invitational
Cake-cutting algorithms and the work of ivars peterson
Arariskein, ars machina, and technique
Beacon of Creation’s Take a Bow/Favorite Flavor – Archers episode https://beaconofcreation.libsyn.com/take-a-bow
Commedia dell’arte
The Servant of Two Masters
Unreliable narrators
In fact, never trust any narrator
Soldiers Aren’t Warriors
Iberian Peninsula & Italian Peninsula
Monster Hunter parties
Shocking Research & Bolting Research
Nice clean cards
Outside-of-game things like Skill Tree let you have super short cards be very modular in-game
Non-Lizard Cleric Wizards
Discard Your Hand Three Times
Video essay Juliet mentions on the core metaphors of chess in Yuri Chess: https://youtu.be/0DosgFDJ7tw?si=gVs7Zjxc9ju2SIzy
