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Marvel Jumpstart Rules, Let’s Talk About Why
We catch everyone up on Jumpstart, breakdown strengths and weaknesses, then go pack by pack in Marvel Jumpstart to get some specific lessons from the designs.
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Juno Challenge Review, part 3
Wrap up our “hatebears” challenge with your best 2 mana 2/2s that slow down your opponents’ strategy. As usual, your submissions drifted from that starting point into some exciting areas.
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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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.
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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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Moxtober Cube 2023! A Lore-Blasted Set
Moxtober is about designing cards every day. A team of five from the MSE server expanded this into designing enough for a 360 card cube! They also crafted a ton of lore around the set, too!
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Baldur’s Gate 3 Companions Re-Designed!
Gaby and Tim break down each of the vidoegame’s six companions, their existing card, their personality, and design something new for them!
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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!