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High Octane Cube Selesnya w/zurishmi
This week we’re putting aside our usual design goals and focusing on a new one: creating cards good enough to hang in a high powered cube! Selesnya hasn’t gotten as much love as the other color pairs in high power formats, but our community is here to…
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Hit the Books Challenge Review
This challenge review dives into “spellbook” technology from Arena. What cool cards can you design when that card has access to three other cards? We got a ton of submissions again, so you’ll learn all about the possible tech! Join Beacon of…
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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Through the Omenpaths Re-Flavoring
Wizards is releasing Through the Omenpaths, a full reflavoring of their Spider-Man set. That got us curious how the existing Universes Beyond sets could be redone too! Khord jumps on the pod as we tackle cards from LotR, 40k, Doctor Who, and more.
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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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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!
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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.
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Card Coliseum: Sudden Death
Design or Die! To celebrate Card Colosseum, Khord and Tim are design cards at lightning speed! Each prompt gets three minutes, for 15 cards all in one podcast. Listen to our answers to these prompts, then hop on the Discord and give us your versions!…
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Final Fantasy Tactics (Advance!) Set w/ Judge Bones
Passion project meets mainstream set release with Judge Bones’s Final Fantasy Tactics Advance project. Started before FIN and reinvented afterward, we talk through all the components he needs to jumpstart this fun adaptation. Learn a bit about some…
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Finality Fantasy Challenge Review
Your last chance on the battlefield! This month’s design challenge is all about finality counters. Bring creatures back, but not forever. Added on top is a whole lot of Universes Beyond-style top down flavor! Tune in to hear about all the twists our…
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Live Design: Dual Lands, Novelty, and Callback
In this live-design episode, Tim and Juliet tackle a templating question based on the precedent of Party, with some help from Banding and Domain. Along the way, they examine the role that lands, dual lands, and 1/1s play in sequencing.
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Cube Cube and More Cube! Washington Cube Champs Recap w/daisyama and zurishmi
Washington Cube Champs is a two day event packed with cube draft! Not just a niche format anymore, cube has its own events and tournaments, including WCC pulling in over a hundred players!
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Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics
With Tarkir Dragonstorm winding up, we’re following their lead and enhancing some old mechanics! Like going from Scavenge to Renew and Flashback to Harmonize, we asked the listeners to design some new mechanics based on old ones. Designing mechanics…
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May B.C. Challenge Review
Elders… be they dragons, dinosaurs, or Final Fantasy villains, they’ve always got cool abilities and an epic feel. This week we review your submissions to the challenge of designing new Elders creatures.
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Design Crossover – Dragon Ball Z TCG (2000)
Crossover ep! What can we steal for MTG? For this ep, our hair is turning gold, our energy is radiating from our bodies, and normal humans can’t even see our attacks because it’s Dragon Ball Z!