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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…
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Janus-uary Challenge Review, pt 1
This month’s challenge asked you to submit double sided cards where neither side is a creature. The star of the show, though, is the bonus challenge, which was to also make the card easy to read! Along the way Juliet talks about reading Tolstoy, Tim asks for a famous web app, and Guff rewrites history.
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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Why Does Simic Struggle in Limited?
Simic has been consistently a low-finisher in draft over the last few years. Can we learn some lessons why?
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Deux-cember Challenge Review
Another month, another crazy design challenge! This month was all about finding ways to break the color pie within a single color’s effects. We’ve got multiple white time walks, black Izzet cards, blue land destruction and more!
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Art of the Year 2023 w/DrChillbrain
Kayiu and guest DrChillbrain take a break from design talk to dive into their favorite card art of the year and what makes them special! Gallery with all the picks from the ep: — Join our Discord: Recaps and card images at: Music is “Hey,…
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You Made the Pack! Cooperative Card Design
You Make the Pack was a cooperative event where we designed a pack of cards for an unknown set, one card at a time. It was super fun, and Redbay is on this episode to talk all about it!
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Batman Villains w/Fblthp
We’ve got prolific designer Fblthp on the pod again, this time to talk about some fun Gotham villains! From big names like Joker and Harley to funny ones like Eraser, join us for a flavor and mechanic dive into these Moxtober creations.
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Redbay Custom Cube
This was the inaugural/first playtest Draft with the Redbay Custom Cube (RCC), which can be found >> here <<. A little bit of background– My primary mode of playing Magic: The Gathering at current (and for the last 10ish years) is cube, whether it’s my traditional cube, my randomly-generated-and-subsequently-stickered-cube, our proxied rendition of Andy Mangold’s…
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Nouveau-mber Challenge Review
We’re winding down on 2023 and asked you for your best cards using this year’s mechanics! We got battles, cybermans, Marvel characters (??) and a Wurmhole. Be sure to tune in!
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Making it Jurassic w/Lyght The PhiRexian
Hold on to your butts! We’re recapping our favorite new Universes Beyond Jurassic Park cards, then leaping claws-first into designing some new cards of our own!
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Five Nights at Freddy’s Custom Commander w/Corv
See if your commander pod can survive five nights with these cards!
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Doctor Who with Bass!
A tour of cards and episodes with a guest that knows them both!