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Janus-uary Challenge Review, pt 1
This month’s challenge asked you to submit double sided cards where neither side is a creature. The star of the show, though, is the bonus challenge, which was to also make the card easy to read! Along the way Juliet talks about reading Tolstoy, Tim asks for a famous web app, and Guff rewrites history.
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Shadowmoor and Horror in Magic: the Gathering
Juliet and special guest horror author Nat Silveira talk about what makes horror as a genre work in speculative fiction and Shadowmoor as a setting, then design two different Shadowmoor-themed body-horror cards!
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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Janus-uary Challenge Review, pt 2
Flip over last week’s episode because we’ve got a whole extra pod on the back! More of your two-sided noncreature cards this week. We’ve got references to Alpha, 1500s paintings, multiple Rakdos goopy trash cards, and a Battle for the finale. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Tidbits and topics: Submissions ChrisTomReilly (New submitter!!!) mothyawg (New…
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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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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Sewer Denizens
What special mechanics would represent a beast that lives in the sewer?
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Zombies and Jobs
Most zombies lose some sense of self, but what could they bring with them into their new life?