• Objection Challenge Review, Part 2

    Objection Challenge Review, Part 2

    Our packed court of Objection! submissions wraps up this week with another packed ep full of great cards! This wide open challenge asked submitters to design a mechanic called “Objection” and we got SO MANY versions.

  • Objection Challenge Review, Part 1

    Objection Challenge Review, Part 1

    You won’t hear me objecting to so many design submissions, but you WILL hear all about the first half of our cards with the Objection mechanic! Keywords, ability words, and flavor, this challenge is all about defining “Objection!”

  • You Make the Pack, But Like, Right Now!

    You Make the Pack, But Like, Right Now!

    We’ve told you about You Make the Pack, now it’s time to do it!! We’ve got some live design this week, making submissions for the YMTP event.

Card of the Day

  • Prize-Winning Griffin

    Meant 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!

    Designed By Tim Reilly
  • Objection Challenge Review, Part 2

    Objection Challenge Review, Part 2

    Our packed court of Objection! submissions wraps up this week with another packed ep full of great cards! This wide open challenge asked submitters to design a mechanic called “Objection” and we got SO MANY versions.

  • Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod

    Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod

    Juliet and game designer Brendan McLeod dispel Ondore’s lies as they talk about Final Fantasy XII’s sparse appearances in the canon “Magic: The Gathering–FINAL FANTASY”, and set out to make a jeskai Commander deck with all new designs for the game’s…

  • Design Crossover – Teamfight Tactics w/Shawn Elizabeth Main!

    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!!

  • Design League Season 2 – Finals Results

    Design League Season 2 – Finals Results

    Your Design League Season 2 Finals Results Article and Winner Announcement!

  • Design League Finals – Unpacking LudosGD

    Design League Finals – Unpacking LudosGD

    Tim and Kayiu are excited to crack open LudosGD’s entry into the “Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo” challenge finals! This is both a card-by-card Unpacking as well as their judging conversation. Moon projections! Drones! Tourists! Colossal stuff!…

  • Design League Round 2+3 Highlights!

    Design League Round 2+3 Highlights!

    The Design League is roaring towards its conclusion and we’ve got highlights from the tournament rounds! Round 2’s Planeswalker vacations and Round 3’s color-coordinated creature packs made for great cards. Join our Discord:  Recaps and card…

  • Unpacking – Primivir

    Unpacking – Primivir

    In Unpacking, we go through the cards in a pack without knowing anything beyond that pack. Through this lens, we try to guess themes, mechanics, flavor, and more! This time we’re looking at Primivir and starting with a single mysterious image of an…

  • Design League Season 2 – The Finals

    Design League Season 2 – The Finals

    The Finals Challenge of Design League Season 2!

  • Design League Season 2 – Tournament Challenge 3 Results

    Design League Season 2 – Tournament Challenge 3 Results

    The results from Tournament Challenge 3 of Design League Season 2! The finals approach!

  • Set in Progress – Runeterra Jumpstart

    Set in Progress – Runeterra Jumpstart

    This week, Tim is joined by Fblthp, who is so lost he’s found himself in another IP! Fblthp has 4 different jumpstart packs to discuss from his Runetrra set, a custom magic jumpstart project based on League of Legends. Strap in and check your cool-downs as we delve into Runterra Jumpstart: Noxus. Runterra is the…

  • July Design Challenge – Tokens

    July Design Challenge – Tokens

    This month we had a listener submitted design challenge from Craftedlavaistrue! We got a whopping 18 submission containing some of the most unique, unusual, and rarely seen tokens in Magic: the Gathering because “Twoken play at that game!” The Challenge: Choose a token which is only produced by a single existing card. Design a new…

  • Design League Season 2 – Tournament Challenge 3

    Design League Season 2 – Tournament Challenge 3

    Design League Season 2 – Tournament Challenge number 3!

  • Design League Season 2 – Tournament Challenge 2 Results

    Design League Season 2 – Tournament Challenge 2 Results

    Results for the 2nd Tournament Challenge in Design League Season 2 – Weekend at Ajani’s!