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Sup-tember Challenge Review, part 2
We challenged you to make food that speaks to a setting! You might say these submissions are packed with flavor!
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Sup-tember Challenge Review
This week we’re talking about your flavor-blasted food cards! Tell us about your setting through the lens of its edibles. Food themes can be hard to make work in limited, but many of our submitters aimed for the bonus points here and gave us cool uncommons. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Topics and Tidbits Submissions…
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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Cube, Coop, and and Collusion at Magic Camp 2026
Our trips to the beach for Magic Camp are always filled with some big swings and fun games. Tim’s friend Keith hops on to the pod to help recap a successful outing full of inspiration for cube, card design, and formats.
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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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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.
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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.
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Juno Challenge Review, part 1
For June, we asked for your best “hatebear” cards. Small creatures, big roadblocks for your opponents. What different ways can you impede your opponent?
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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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Cooperative Magic Mega-sode!
We go deep on the innovations found in the new TMNT Team Up product, then walk through our community’s pitches for cooperative and multiplayer modes!
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Swamps and Marshes Challenge Review, part 2
Tim and Juliet go on an Adventure reviewing all the submissions and have an Omen for next month’s challenge.
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Swamps and Marshes Challenge Review, part 1
This month we pay homage to our nation’s wetlands by reviewing a variety of black mana producing cards. You might be disappointed by only ten cards, but secretly you get the full 20 thanks to adventures, omens, and prepared spells!
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Noggles, Donkeys & Midsummer Night’s Dream w/Andrew Gillis
Juliet and game designer Andrew Gillis tackle the noblest of beasts and regalest of steeds, the humble donkey.
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The Baneslayer Cube by Redbay
Baneslayer Angel vs Mulldrifter is a spectrum of on-board presence versus pre-loaded value. This week’s episode is a cube design episode about that tension.
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Popcorn! Playing “Telephone” with Game Design
This week we talk about and design for the “Popcorn” game in our Discord community. Design a card based off of the last card, and the next person designs one off of yours. We go over some highlights from the game, then design a pair of cards ourselves!