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What Makes a Teenage Turtle Mutant?
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! 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…
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Following Signposts – Lorwyn Eclipsed, plus Hybrid Talk
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 Topics and Tidbits Tim’s Ratings Excitement…
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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Janus-uary Challenge Review, pt 2
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. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Tidbits and topics: Submissions ChrisTomReilly (New submitter!!!) mothyawg (New…
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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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Unpacking Settling Idyll
This week we are looking at the custom set Settling Idyll by Provocative! We are going in only knowing a single image: a heroic mech guarding a town.
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Unpacking the Plundering of Guemhill w/Dodger
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!
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Set Skeleton Megaton News!
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.
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Leap Year Challenge Review
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”. Join our Discord: Recaps and card images at: YouTube videos:
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MORE Baldur’s Gate 3 Re-Designs!
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.
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Design Rush – Guildpact
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 Murders at Karlov Manor!
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!
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Janu-Faerie Challenge Review
This week we review your Faerie cards that mix in digital and other special mechanics!
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Design Rush – Ravnica
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 Cube 2023! A Lore-Blasted Set
Moxtober is about designing cards every day. A team of five from the MSE server expanded this into designing enough for a 360 card cube! They also crafted a ton of lore around the set, too!