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!
Check out the set here: https://rrredbay.github.io/sets/SOC
Topics and Snippets
- Stars of Cinesterra
- Finishing up Wrenchmar
- Abandoning the rebel set
- Last adventure before going to school
- starting playtesting earlier
- the value of something being done
- being done opens the door to something new
- what to aim for with a set: a plane, a core set, synergy set?
- week 0 – sketch some mechanics
- week 1 – make commons and playtest
- lots of “doodle” drafts ahead of putting it into a set file
- even what’s in the set file is just trying to get you to the playtest
- putting aside the instinct to perspect
- jamming more playtest games with free mulligans, best of one, cutting off games early
- week 2 – 50% uncommons, arcuns, a couple rares
- brainstorming movies for this big movie-themed set!
- week 3 – 50% rares
- rerolling sealed pools until you see rares/themes you want to test
- designing rares on a schedule
- harder to design rares or mythics?
- week 4 – finishing rares polishing both individual and overall aspects
- playtesting every week is easiest with a pair/team
- normally playtesting is hard because it has to be “good enough” to be entertaining
- partnering as a way to keep enthusiasm going
- finding a lot of art in a hurry (artstation!)
- mse discord art sheet shoutout
- week 5 – preview season!
- voting for previews in discord… “what do we want to watch?”
- preview season as a retroactive devlog
- the formula of preview season as a way of extracting nuggets about the design
- Naming a set!
- Word Hippo??
- Spooky ghost changes
- MSE notes section! Get those TODOs in there!
- Blockbuster N (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may tap four untapped non-Aura permanents you control. If you do, this spell is a blockbuster.)
- Blockbuster is a kicker variant!
- Third Act (If your life total is less than half of your starting life total or if you have one or fewer cards in hand, you enter the Third Act for the rest of the game.)
- Fateful Hour, Hellbent, Ascend
- A truly shocking number of Third Act cards in the set
- You Make the Pack is back!!!!
- Selesnya cards don’t exist