• Swamps and Marshes Challenge Review, part 1

    Swamps and Marshes Challenge Review, part 1

    This month we pay homage to our nation’s wetlands by reviewing a variety of black mana producing cards. You might be disappointed by only ten cards, but secretly you get the full 20 thanks to adventures, omens, and prepared spells!

  • Juno Challenge Review, part 1

    Juno Challenge Review, part 1

    For June, we asked for your best “hatebear” cards. Small creatures, big roadblocks for your opponents. What different ways can you impede your opponent?

  • Sharpie Cube! Change Cards To Your Heart’s Content

    Sharpie Cube! Change Cards To Your Heart’s Content

    Ever want to knock a mana off a creature? Remove a bad drawback from a land? Sharpie Cube is the idea of redacting rules text. Always subtraction, never addition.

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
  • Swamps and Marshes Challenge Review, part 1

    Swamps and Marshes Challenge Review, part 1

    This month we pay homage to our nation’s wetlands by reviewing a variety of black mana producing cards. You might be disappointed by only ten cards, but secretly you get the full 20 thanks to adventures, omens, and prepared spells!

  • 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!!

  • Deux-cember Challenge Review

    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!

  • Art of the Year 2023 w/DrChillbrain

    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,…

  • You Made the Pack! Cooperative Card Design

    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! 

  • Batman Villains w/Fblthp

    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.

  • Redbay Custom Cube

    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…

  • Nouveau-mber Challenge Review

    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!

  • Making it Jurassic w/Lyght The PhiRexian

    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!

  • Five Nights at Freddy’s Custom Commander w/Corv

    Five Nights at Freddy’s Custom Commander w/Corv

    See if your commander pod can survive five nights with these cards!

  • Doctor Who with Bass!

    Doctor Who with Bass!

    A tour of cards and episodes with a guest that knows them both!

  • Oct-faux-ber Challenge Review

    Oct-faux-ber Challenge Review

    This month’s design challenge asked you to make a new card using an existing card’s rules test. The results are wild!