• Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics

    Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics

    With Tarkir Dragonstorm winding up, we’re following their lead and enhancing some old mechanics! Like going from Scavenge to Renew and Flashback to Harmonize, we asked the listeners to design some new mechanics based on old ones. Designing mechanics…

  • May B.C. Challenge Review

    May B.C. Challenge Review

    Elders… be they dragons, dinosaurs, or Final Fantasy villains, they’ve always got cool abilities and an epic feel. This week we review your submissions to the challenge of designing new Elders creatures.

  • Design Crossover – Dragon Ball Z TCG (2000)

    Design Crossover – Dragon Ball Z TCG (2000)

    Crossover ep! What can we steal for MTG? For this ep, our hair is turning gold, our energy is radiating from our bodies, and normal humans can’t even see our attacks because it’s Dragon Ball Z!

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
  • Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics

    Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics

    With Tarkir Dragonstorm winding up, we’re following their lead and enhancing some old mechanics! Like going from Scavenge to Renew and Flashback to Harmonize, we asked the listeners to design some new mechanics based on old ones. Designing mechanics…

  • 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!!

  • May Design Challenge – Modified

    May Design Challenge – Modified

    Every month Beacon of Creation tests its community with a design challenge. This month the design challenge is… Maybe She’s Born With It – Design a card using modified with cosmetic flavor. The design comes from the famous slogan for the cosmetics company Maybelline — “Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Maybelline.” Tim posted…

  • Design League Season 2 – Qualifier 3 Results

    Design League Season 2 – Qualifier 3 Results

    Discussion and results from Design League Season 2’s Qualifier 3 – Love is a Battlefield.

  • Unpacking – The Grand Gala

    Unpacking – The Grand Gala

    In Unpacking, we go one-by-one through cards in a pack. We learn what we can from just the cards in front of us; no set summary and no knowledge of the mechanics. It’s a fun way to see cards with fresh eyes. This time Ludos GD joins Tim in going through a pack of The…

  • Design League Season 2 – Qualifier 2 Results

    Design League Season 2 – Qualifier 2 Results

    Discussion and results from Design League Season 2’s Qualifier 2 – Collect ’em All.

  • Set Spotlight – Seasons of War

    Set Spotlight – Seasons of War

    This week is the long-awaited spotlight on Seasons of War, the custom commander limited set! Creator Timespiraled joins the show to tell us everything they learned making it and what they enjoy about the final product!

  • Design League Season 2 – Qualifier 1 Results

    Design League Season 2 – Qualifier 1 Results

    Review of Design League Season 2 Qualifier 1 submissions and announcement of Qualifier 1 winner.

  • Unpacking – Memories of the Silver City

    Unpacking – Memories of the Silver City

    In Unpacking, we go one-by-one through cards in a pack. We learn what we can from just the cards in front of us; no set summary and no knowledge of the mechanics. It’s a fun way to see cards with fresh eyes. This time Redbay joins Tim in going through…

  • Design League: Season 1 Recap

    Design League: Season 1 Recap

    A summary of the first season of Design League, a competitive Design event held on the Beacon of Creation Discord.

  • April Design Challenge – Ultimatums

    April Design Challenge – Ultimatums

    We put our foot down and issue an ultimatum: design us some great cards! You know the community is going to give us a huge haul of cool designs and plenty to talk about.

  • Designing Simplicity

    Designing Simplicity

    Designing cards is hard, and sometimes things get complicated. How to simplify them?