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Live Design – The Year of Mechanics w/rexxer2
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! We’ve got a combo episode this week. Part project showoff, part live design, and all weird old mechanics. Rexxer2 aka Spencer hops on the pod with Tim to talk through this mechanic-a-day project and then dive in to design three of the cards! Fans (if…
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Rhoxtober Challenge Review
Spooky season meets rhinoceroses in our monthly challenge! We got your best card ideas submitted throughout the month and we cover the entries in this episode.
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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Following Signposts – Avatar the Last Airbender
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! We’re back again on the trail, following where the signposts lead us in draft. This new Avatar set has some new twists on the uncommon gold “archetype” cards and overall has some new ideas on structure. How do you structure a set with four types…
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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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Design League Finals – Unpacking platypeople
Kayiu and Tim crack open platypeople’s pack for the “Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo” Finals challenge for the Design League! We saw LudosGD’s entry earlier in the week, how will the two stack up? We’ve got bullies! Circles! Safes! and Triangles!…
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Design League Season 2 – Finals Results
Your Design League Season 2 Finals Results Article and Winner Announcement!
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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!…
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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…
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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…
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Design League Season 2 – The Finals
The Finals Challenge of Design League Season 2!
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Design League Season 2 – Tournament Challenge 3 Results
The results from Tournament Challenge 3 of Design League Season 2! The finals approach!
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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…
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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…
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Design League Season 2 – Tournament Challenge 3
Design League Season 2 – Tournament Challenge number 3!