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Febru-Air Challenge Review, part 1
This month’s challenge standardizes the cost and size: 5 mana, 4/4 flier. From there, our designers could go wherever they want! Plenty of fun designs and great discussion, plus a thorough look into the nature of humanity. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Topics and Tidbits: Submissions Inte CryptRat PlumtreeChloe MissLys Juliet Qirn AuxiliaryOtter Andrew YABO…
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What Makes a Teenage Turtle Mutant?
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! Juliet poses a philsophical question on the nature of identity and gets a crash course on TMNT from turtle-expert Riley Hopkins. In the face of Ooze, does patience or pizza win out? Did you know that Splinter is a cross-universe pun the whole time? Along…
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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Design Crossover – Once Upon a Galaxy
Big episode! Alexis Janson breaks down their game and helps brainstorm how to steal some of that technology for our own Magic designs. Alexis was a Beacon host way back in the day, so you know they’re ready to go deep on the design and ideas behind…
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Moxtober 2025 Primer
Kayiu and Juliet walk through the basics of Moxtober 2025, the yearly community custom Magic event! Join Beacon of Creation’s Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Favorite Flavor – Spiders w/Gabe Lincoln
Juliet is joined by Gabe Lincoln to ask to borrow a cup of one of Magic’s oldest flavors, Giant non-Lizard-Wizard non-Hero-Villain Spiders. How do the arachnids that predate the keywording of reach differ from the ones that come after? What is the…
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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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Objection Challenge Review, Part 2
Our packed court of Objection! submissions wraps up this week with another packed ep full of great cards! This wide open challenge asked submitters to design a mechanic called “Objection” and we got SO MANY versions.
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Objection Challenge Review, Part 1
You won’t hear me objecting to so many design submissions, but you WILL hear all about the first half of our cards with the Objection mechanic! Keywords, ability words, and flavor, this challenge is all about defining “Objection!”
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You Make the Pack, But Like, Right Now!
We’ve told you about You Make the Pack, now it’s time to do it!! We’ve got some live design this week, making submissions for the YMTP event.
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Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod
Juliet and game designer Brendan McLeod dispel Ondore’s lies as they talk about Final Fantasy XII’s sparse appearances in the canon “Magic: The Gathering–FINAL FANTASY”, and set out to make a jeskai Commander deck with all new designs for the game’s…
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Create a Custom Set in a Month!
How do you make your own set in a month? The power of friendship! Beacon regular Brad (aka Redbay) breaks down the schedule he and Peter (MonoWhiteBorder) used to finish and release an entire set in a month. There’s a TON of great tips for making sets…
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Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities
Signpost gold cards are a great way to teach your drafters what archetypes and decks can be drafted in limited. By learning from retail Wizards sets, we can improve our design skills and make more fun sets ourselves.