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Sup-tember Challenge Review
This week we’re talking about your flavor-blasted food cards! Tell us about your setting through the lens of its edibles. Food themes can be hard to make work in limited, but many of our submitters aimed for the bonus points here and gave us cool uncommons. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Topics and Tidbits Submissions…
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Talkin’ Tolkien! Jump-starting Hobbit Precon Design
Host Juliet and Guest Leo have a grand discussion of the cards from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets, what new players can learn just from a pack of cards, how to design a Jumpstart set that’s accessible, whether Blue is the hardest color, how you name a horse’s color, and how you…
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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Cube, Coop, and and Collusion at Magic Camp 2026
Our trips to the beach for Magic Camp are always filled with some big swings and fun games. Tim’s friend Keith hops on to the pod to help recap a successful outing full of inspiration for cube, card design, and formats.
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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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Mechanics Draft! First Ten Years
We strategize, agonize, and finally pick mechanics from Magic’s past, snake drafted one at a time! What starts as a simple exercise turns into a thrilling competition. Everything from the pre-Modern era of Magic is on the table except for those pesky evergreen keywords.
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Unpacking Settling Idyll
This week we are looking at the custom set Settling Idyll by Provocative! We are going in only knowing a single image: a heroic mech guarding a town.
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Unpacking the Plundering of Guemhill w/Dodger
The Beacon community finished a second You Make the Pack, where we build a 15 card pack together. This week Kayiu brings on guest Dodger to see how we did!
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Set Skeleton Megaton News!
Mark Rosewater dropped a huge design article about Play Booster set skeletons this week! Skeletons are the outline of a Magic set, so we had to convene a pod to dissect all this new info.
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Leap Year Challenge Review
Jump in to these great submissions… or LOSE THE GAME! We’ve got 13 great designs for our February challenge, which asked people to create cards with the text “lose the game”. Join our Discord: Recaps and card images at: YouTube videos:
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MORE Baldur’s Gate 3 Re-Designs!
We’ve got Gaby back on the pod for more live designing! You don’t need to know anything about the game to listen… we cover what you need! We take a look at the cards for Halsin, Minthara, and Jaheira from the Magic set and give each a facelift.
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Design Rush – Guildpact
Two more contestants, three more guilds… it’s the return of Ravnica Design Rush! What cards can be created in mere minutes?
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Unpacking Murders at Karlov Manor!
Unpacking is a segment where we go totally blind into a pack and just break down the cards we see, as we see them. Usually we do this with older or custom sets, but Kayiu had the great idea of going blind into the new Murders at Karlov Manor set!
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Janu-Faerie Challenge Review
This week we review your Faerie cards that mix in digital and other special mechanics!
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Design Rush – Ravnica
Juliet ambushes Kayiu and Tim with a quick-on-your-feet card design showcase of the guilds of Ravnica (that’s Ravnica, not Guilds of Ravnica). Play along at home!