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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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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…
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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.
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Weekend Bonus – Eldraine Draft Hangout
Bonus weekend episode talking about picks and flavor from Wilds of Eldraine, during a draft!
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“A Gust of Wind” Challenge Review
We issued the A Gust of Wind challenge for August, and now it’s time to review your submissions!
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September Challenge: Con-september
September’s design challenge is all about 2024’s upcoming sets! Learn all about it!
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Design League Finals – Unpacking platypeople
Kayiu and Tim crack open platypeople’s pack for the “Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo” Finals challenge for the Design League! We saw LudosGD’s entry earlier in the week, how will the two stack up? We’ve got bullies! Circles! Safes! and Triangles!…
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Design League Season 2 – Finals Results
Your Design League Season 2 Finals Results Article and Winner Announcement!
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Design League Finals – Unpacking LudosGD
Tim and Kayiu are excited to crack open LudosGD’s entry into the “Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo” challenge finals! This is both a card-by-card Unpacking as well as their judging conversation. Moon projections! Drones! Tourists! Colossal stuff!…
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Design League Round 2+3 Highlights!
The Design League is roaring towards its conclusion and we’ve got highlights from the tournament rounds! Round 2’s Planeswalker vacations and Round 3’s color-coordinated creature packs made for great cards. Join our Discord: Recaps and card…
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Unpacking – Primivir
In Unpacking, we go through the cards in a pack without knowing anything beyond that pack. Through this lens, we try to guess themes, mechanics, flavor, and more! This time we’re looking at Primivir and starting with a single mysterious image of an…