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Nov-Embermage Challenge Review, Part 1
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! Juliet and guest judge Andrew Sherman tackle Mono-Red Mana Dorks for this month’s design challenge review. Treasure, One-hit wonders, and Blitz (but not blitzball) all make fiery-hot appearances. Scryfall Gallery of cards mentioned Check out some of Andrew’s Magic and other game projects: https://acsherman.github.io/sets/TPW https://acsherman.itch.io…
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Forging a Format! Learn about Beacon Constructed
Khord and IgnitedxSoul hop on the pod this week to tell us about Beacon Constructed, a Standard-like format composed of sets from the Beacon of Creation server.
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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Following Signposts – Avatar the Last Airbender
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! We’re back again on the trail, following where the signposts lead us in draft. This new Avatar set has some new twists on the uncommon gold “archetype” cards and overall has some new ideas on structure. How do you structure a set with four types…
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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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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!
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Lore Detectives! They Made the Pack, Can We Order It?!
This one is for the flavor text lovers! Tim and Juliet have to dissect the flavor in this mystery pack from Peter. The pack’s story has an order, and it’s up to us to figure it out! Very much a Custom Magic episode.
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All About Quests w/Qirn
Starting in Zendikar, quests have been a fun way to build towards a goal. This week’s guest, Qirn, has been thinking all about quests for a Legend of Zelda set and has some ideas.
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Alien Space Survival! Outpost Zero w/IgnitedxSoul
We’ve got Beacon regular IgnitedxSoul, aka Dylan, on the pod this week! The topic is Outpost Zero, a sci-fi horror set, but more specifically we’re diving into some problem draft archetypes in the set.