• Juno Challenge Review, part 3

    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.

  • Juno Challenge Review, part 2

    Juno Challenge Review, part 2

    Continuing our review of your “hatebear” cards, which mix assertive combat with rule-bending counterbalances. These rule-centric cards have HUGE design implications, so stay tuned for, among other things, a review of the layers system.

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
  • 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.

  • 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!!

  • 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!

  • 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…