• Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities

    Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities

    Signpost gold cards are a great way to teach your drafters what archetypes and decks can be drafted in limited. By learning from retail Wizards sets, we can improve our design skills and make more fun sets ourselves.

  • Ju-Lie Challenge Review

    Ju-Lie Challenge Review

    Tapping is core to Magic and it’s about time we did a Design Challenge all about it! This month you sent us all your cards that tap lots of creatures, and as an extra challenge we said to do it without blue!

  • Star-Crossed Lovers of New Capenna

    Star-Crossed Lovers of New Capenna

    A little bit of romance, a dash of action, some new mechanics, and even a speedy bunch of card crafting. This episode has it all! The pitch fuses Capenna’s angels and demons world with families, weddings, and duels of honor.

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
  • Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities

    Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities

    Signpost gold cards are a great way to teach your drafters what archetypes and decks can be drafted in limited. By learning from retail Wizards sets, we can improve our design skills and make more fun sets ourselves.

  • 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!!

  • Set Spotlight – Merveaux

    Set Spotlight – Merveaux

    Learn all about Mattelonian’s art and performance set, Merveaux! We learn all about what it takes to merge artifacts, enchantments, and three color wedges into one heavily playtested package.

  • Signposts 101

    Signposts 101

    Welcome to “Reading the Signposts,” a recurring column analyzing and exploring the design of the specific cards that help players understand the playstyles of the varied limited archetypes of sets (both official and custom-made). A quick primer on “signposts” for budding designers: With most sets (especially those intended to be drafted), Wizards of the Coast…

  • Ludoflavorative Resonance – Cat’s Meow

    Ludoflavorative Resonance – Cat’s Meow

    Juliet and Susan discuss the things Cats are always known for: having antlers, flying, and having jobs! We break down some of Magic’s most influential and adventurous felines, and together design a blue(paw)print card for what the future of this…

  • Planechase Returns w/Fblthp

    Planechase Returns w/Fblthp

    Realmbreaker has reconnected all the planes and we’re reconnecting with a format from the early 2010s: Planechase! This multiplayer-focused format switches rules early and often. What makes a good Plane card? Are the bad cards fun or just part of the…

  • March of the Machines Challenge Review

    March of the Machines Challenge Review

    March is over and your entries to the design challenge are here! Tim and Juliet review a sometimes-aquatic variety of artifact soldiers. There’s lobsters, legions, french fish, swampy subs, an underwater robot, an undercover otter, overarmor,…

  • Sewer Denizens

    Sewer Denizens

    What special mechanics would represent a beast that lives in the sewer?

  • Zombies and Jobs

    Zombies and Jobs

    Most zombies lose some sense of self, but what could they bring with them into their new life?