• April Fool Us Challenge – Chaos Edition

    April Fool Us Challenge – Chaos Edition

    Each card we review today is either a real card with name and color changed or a completely made up card. Can we tell the difference? We use a variety of clues to try to bust the fakes and make the right guess!

  • Design Crossover – Spirit Island

    Design Crossover – Spirit Island

    Crossovers are back! This time Otter jumps on the pod to explain the board game Spirit Island to Tim. Despite being an area-control cooperative game, it has a ton of cool rules to adapt over into Magic.

  • THE Horse Challenge Review, part 3

    THE Horse Challenge Review, part 3

    Tim and Juliet enter their joker phase as they barrel through the final dozen submissions to THE Horse challenge. Put on your stirrups and listen to us break down all of your great saddle cards. Tons of creativity! There’s even some innovation in… flavor text?

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
  • April Fool Us Challenge – Chaos Edition

    April Fool Us Challenge – Chaos Edition

    Each card we review today is either a real card with name and color changed or a completely made up card. Can we tell the difference? We use a variety of clues to try to bust the fakes and make the right guess!

  • 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!!

  • 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!

  • Moxtober – Guess the Prompt

    Moxtober – Guess the Prompt

    We’ve got the creator of Moxtober on the pod this week! Hear all about how Moxtober went this year and play along with our guessing game!

  • Make It More…. Spooky!

    Make It More…. Spooky!

    Tim and Peter get together to — make it more… SPOOKY!

  • Castmire Jumpstart Moxtober!

    Castmire Jumpstart Moxtober!

    Juliet walks us through their current project, a take on Castmire through the lens of Jumpstart!

  • Set in Progress – Redbay’s 3-color Traegar

    Set in Progress – Redbay’s 3-color Traegar

    Juliet talks with Redbay about his three-color wasteland artifact set.

  • Con-September Challenge Review

    Con-September Challenge Review

    Your challenge was using concept art from the 2024 Magic sets. Our job is to review them all and pick our favorites!

  • Join Moxtober!

    Join Moxtober!

    What is Moxtober? For those of you who don’t know. Moxtober is a month long creative challenge like Inktober, but focused around Magic the Gathering creative projects in general, and for a lot of people specifically around custom Magic cards. 31 prompts, 31 days. How do I participate? The simplest way to participate is to submit…

  • Squad up! Dropping Dozens of Squad Mechanics

    Squad up! Dropping Dozens of Squad Mechanics

    Alert! Super fun episode!! Community members Dillon and patrick went on a spree of designing Squad mechanics. Monsquadsity, Ninsquadtsu, Squecho, Musquade, and dozens more!

  • Design League Finals! w/platypeople, LudosGD, redbay

    Design League Finals! w/platypeople, LudosGD, redbay

    Our big wrap up episode for Design League 2!!! We brought everyone on: the winner platypeople, runner-up Ludos, and league commissioner Redbay. We get the behind the scenes on the big finals submissions and also some insight on how RB put it all…

  • Live Design: Codename Hitchock

    Live Design: Codename Hitchock

    This week Juliet and Monowhiteborder discuss his work in progress set, Codename Hitchcock, themed around the Golden Era of Hollywood Cinema from the 1930s to early 1960s.