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Shadowmoor and Horror in Magic: the Gathering
Juliet and special guest horror author Nat Silveira talk about what makes horror as a genre work in speculative fiction and Shadowmoor as a setting, then design two different Shadowmoor-themed body-horror cards!
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Lorwyn and Peace in Magic: the Gathering
All this Lorwyn in the air has got Juliet thinking about the works of 1894, which also leads to thoughts of nonviolence. Follow our train of thought to hear a discussion of new player’s aversion to combat, the joy of changelings, and the diet of Mirrans. Then we each design a new Lorwyn card building…
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 1
This month’s challenge asked you to submit double sided cards where neither side is a creature. The star of the show, though, is the bonus challenge, which was to also make the card easy to read! Along the way Juliet talks about reading Tolstoy, Tim asks for a famous web app, and Guff rewrites history.
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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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Live Design – Tarkir Dragonstorm but make it Alchemy!
With Dragonstorm out but Alchemy not yet revealed, we’re taking a shot at some ideas for Arena play with these new mechanics! Long time discord member Craftedlavaistrue joins Tim and Peter for a trio of new cards.
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Enter the Micro-Set Voc-Gal Techniques w/Khord
This week’s ep is about Khord’s contribution to the Micro-Set project, Voc-Gal Techniques.
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Enter the Micro-Set: Veyrathal w/Redbay
Juliet and Redbay break down the hip new limited format and custom design project: 45-card Micro-sets for duplicate sealed! Can this new format bring the best of traditional set design limited and the brevity and expediency of jumpstart play?
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You Are What You Eat Challenge Review
Winter hibernation is over and we’re hungry! Our challenge this month was to design cards with cards with devour, emerge, or exploit, so keep those snacks coming!
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Retro Formats – Rise of the Eldrazi
They don’t make formats like they used to… but should they?! Join guest Tom on a tour through the famous Rise of the Eldrazi format. Along the way we’ll also talk about the parallels between ROE and a certain current draft format.
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Episode 400! Remembering and Reconsidering Castmire
Celebrating 400 episodes! This is an intro to the original Beacon of Creation project, Castmire, a spooky Magic set in a world before Duskmourn and Murders at Karlov Manor. The coolest part of the ep is the second half, where we give into sweet ideas…
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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!