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Hit the Books Challenge Review
This challenge review dives into “spellbook” technology from Arena. What cool cards can you design when that card has access to three other cards? We got a ton of submissions again, so you’ll learn all about the possible tech! Join Beacon of…
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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…
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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High Octane Cube Selesnya w/zurishmi
This week we’re putting aside our usual design goals and focusing on a new one: creating cards good enough to hang in a high powered cube! Selesnya hasn’t gotten as much love as the other color pairs in high power formats, but our community is here to…
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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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Favorite Flavor – Food Cards w/Aaron Lim
Juliet and game designer Aaron Lim dig into Magic’s most interesting cards with the Food subtype! From Gingerbrutes to Krovod Haunches, they resist the urge to create tokens and design some tasty cards that’ll make you say “Bon Appétit”.
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Four Weeks Challenge Review
Big spells with a backup plan! We’ve got all of your entries in our Four Weeks challenge, where designers had to make a spell you can cast for either 8 mana or 2 mana!
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Final Fantasy Hype! w/Ash Parrish
Final Fantasy previews are here and we’ve assembled a heroic party to talk all about it! Tim and Juliet are joined by the wonderful Ash Parrish of the Verge to break down all the cards. We talk our favorite previews, then talk through some…
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You Make the Pack! But What One Should We Make??
You Make the Pack is our community project where we build a pack of Magic cards, one card at a time! We’re looking at all the submissions that would kick off the new pack!
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Following Signposts – Aetherdrift
This week is all about drift archetypes! We break down all ten from the new set along with their gold cards. Are they exciting? Believeable? Synergistic? This is a great way to get familiar with the components of the set’s limited design.
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First of Its Kind Challenge Review
What is Magic missing? We listened to all of you! This month’s challenge was to use a new creature type and we went through all your cards. Juliet’s new game: Moonshot Patreon for Juliet’s next project: Join Beacon of Creation’s Discord: Show Notes:
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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.