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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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Designing Cities w/Amberspire’s Nic Tringali
Cain may be the “first author” of cities, but Juliet and game designer Nic Tringali dive deep into what makes the city, and the city builder, so frequent a fantasy in games and in real life. Along the way they discuss Amberspire, the hit new city-builder that goes live the day this episode releases, and…
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April Fool Us Challenge – Chaos Edition
Each card we review today is either a real card with name and color changed or a completely made up card. Can we tell the difference? We use a variety of clues to try to bust the fakes and make the right guess!
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Design Crossover – Spirit Island
Crossovers are back! This time Otter jumps on the pod to explain the board game Spirit Island to Tim. Despite being an area-control cooperative game, it has a ton of cool rules to adapt over into Magic.
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THE Horse Challenge Review, part 3
Tim and Juliet enter their joker phase as they barrel through the final dozen submissions to THE Horse challenge. Put on your stirrups and listen to us break down all of your great saddle cards. Tons of creativity! There’s even some innovation in… flavor text?
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THE Horse Challenge Review, part 2
Our massive “Year of THE Horse” challenge review continues! You sent us way more submissions than ever before, including mount[ain] kings, the biggest lore dragon, a goat, and many horses.
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THE Horse Challenge Review, part 1
You better be ready for extensive horse content!!! So much saddle, from more traditional beasts to a doting dad. Come get your fill but be ready to come back for more next week.
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YOUR Fractured Planeswalkers!
Last week’s episode about color-shifted “Fractured” planeswalkers set off a firestorm of design in the Discord! This week we’re going over a bunch of those cards. GrandNagus aka Weasel joins us on the pod for the first time to share their card, too.
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Fractured Planeswalkers! Classic Characters in New Colors
Orzhov Ral Zarek is just the beginning! Khord and Tim collaborate on the idea of switched up colors for planeswalkers. Water wizard Chandra? Tezzeret with wooden limbs? Kaito the samurai?
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Febru-Air Challenge Review, part 2
Juliet and Tim review your submissions for the 4/4 flier challenge. Along the way, they dive deep into what makes a keyword plausible, an ability word worthwhile, and randomness in gameplay fun or unfun. Submissions Red Bay Xena mothyawg kuyashiiPlays JamesDaltonBell MrMister72 MythicDraegon Larcent Dragon of the West MonoWhiteBorder Mini Spice Duchess ChrisTomReilly
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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…