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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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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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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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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.
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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.