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Live Design – Tarkir Dragonstorm but make it Alchemy!
With Dragonstorm out but Alchemy not yet revealed, we’re taking a shot at some ideas for Arena play with these new mechanics! Long time discord member Craftedlavaistrue joins Tim and Peter for a trio of new cards.
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Enter the Micro-Set: Veyrathal w/Redbay
Juliet and Redbay break down the hip new limited format and custom design project: 45-card Micro-sets for duplicate sealed! Can this new format bring the best of traditional set design limited and the brevity and expediency of jumpstart play?
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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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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Enter the Micro-Set Voc-Gal Techniques w/Khord
This week’s ep is about Khord’s contribution to the Micro-Set project, Voc-Gal Techniques.
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Design Crossover – Joyride: Survival of the Fastest
In this episode we learn about Joyride, a bumper car battle race board game. Along the way we brainstorm ideas in Magic inspired by this new game!
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Cube Concoctions! Reviewing Your Cube Pitches
This week we’re in the lab, talking all about 15 cube experiments submitted by you!
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The Beast Unleashed! Iterating a Set Mechanic
Would you like to listen to two people say the word “Beast” about two hundred times each? We have the episode for you.
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Ways for You to Make a New Game in the New Year!
Part of what makes Custom Magic fun is how easy it is to get into. Design a card, show it around, and done! For the New Year, Juliet wanted to tell us all about other ways to get involved in game design as a solo designer.
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Advent Sentinel Challenge Review
We’ve got a ten pack of Defender-matters cards to review this month for our (Ad)vent Sentinel design challenge! The added twist here of getting the number 12 on a card really put our designers on an interesting track. Juliet’s Castmas pod: Join…
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Unpacking – Wrenchmar
Unpacking is where we go through a pack one card at a time and learn what we can just from that pack. No archetype lists, no explanation of mechanics, just what’s on the cards. It’s a great way to both see what the packs can tell us, but also…
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Design Crossover – Transformers Card Game
We’ve got Bass back on the pod to tell us EVERYTHING about the short-lived Transformers TCG! This game burned short but burned bright.
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You Make the Pack: Duplicate Sealed
Hi All! We recently finished our 6th pack of You Make the Pack. IgnitedxSoul and I have been kicking some tires on doing a Duplicate Sealed for these six packs, so I wanted to share some highlights from the packs for anybody interested. What is Duplicate Sealed? Sealed is a format where players open booster…
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Going Nova Challenge Review
Who needs to cast spells when you can sit back and let your creatures do the casting? Just the easy life for us! Fortunately our listeners did the work and submitted creatures-who-cast-spells for us to review.