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Witching Hour Challenge Review, part 1
Spooky season just ended… but out from the shadows jump almost a dozen great warlock submissions! Our listeners are balancing warlock flavor against “lord” mechanics.
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Role Call w/Pat
Pat joins Juliet for a role of a lifetime, rolling to design cards that in turn create new custom Role Aura tokens! Lookout for some spicy red cards, while being careful that your Serpent Warriors don’t Betray you. Do these cards have that certain Je Ne Sais Quoi? Catch Juliet’s new show about Paper Mario…
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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Year of Mechanics + Moxtober Combo! Live Design w/rexxer3
We’ve got three cards to design this week! We pick back up with rexxer3 on their “Year of Mechanics” project, which has official stretched past a whole year due to how many mechanics Magic has! One card per mechanic, and this month there is a special twist. Each mechanic is paired with one of our…
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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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Designing for IPs and Moxtober Hype!
Kayiu and Juliet tackle what makes designing for an IP swing or miss, covering Portal: Three Kingdoms and Chikyu: Ruined Future.
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Champion’s Podium! League Wrap-Up w/Provocative and Brad
Our last pod about Design League 3 is here! We’ve got both league champ Prov and runner-up Brad here to talk about their process, the planes, and their ideas for the future!
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Eight Legs Challenge Review w/Squares that Cube
Two-thirds of the Squares that Cube podcast join the pod this week to break down YOUR submissions to our Octopus-Overloaded challenge, Eight Legs a Week! Will our six arms be enough??
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Sunset Sacrifice! League Finals Entry from Provocative
Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Provocative’s entry, and you’ll hear all about some new tokens, Rakdos planeswalkers, and why the sun is bad!
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Design League Season 3 – Finals and Winner
The Final Challenge of Design League Season 3! Who was our winner?
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I Wanna Rock! League Finals Entry from Bradley Rose
Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Bradley Rose’s entry, and you’ll learn about it along with us. Super exciting! Join our Discord: Show Notes:
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Running an All-Magic Weekend
Calming beach views, cooking for your friends, and all the Magic you could want! Tim and guest Shobi make the case for taking out a whole weekend with friends for playing Magic. Too much? Or not enough?
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Spinning Templates! Tightening Rules Text
Bloomburrow’s rules change to “enters” has us hungry for more! Can we shorten “once a turn”, “flicker”, “end of turn”, and more? Join our tour of rules text minutiae.
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Following Signposts – Bloomburrow
Bloomburrow is here! We’ve had a look at the archetypes, and it’s time for us to break down the design of each of them using our four categories.
