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Back to Battlebond! Bradley Brainstorming Bonanza
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! This week we’re headed joining heads to brainstorm a ton of new ideas for 2HG draft! The episode starts with a recap of Battlebond along with cracking a sample pack. Once the table it set, we settle in to the big brainstorming session, sharing over…
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Studying the State of Design 2025
This week Gabe’s bringing the Mark Rosewater’s State of Design 2025 article to the pod. We’ve picked our favorite points from the article and talk through the implications and lessons. Some of these sets aren’t that old but feel ancient now! It was…
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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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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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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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.
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Advent Sentinel Challenge Review
We’ve got a ten pack of Defender-matters cards to review this month for our (Ad)vent Sentinel design challenge! The added twist here of getting the number 12 on a card really put our designers on an interesting track. Juliet’s Castmas pod: Join…
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Unpacking – Wrenchmar
Unpacking is where we go through a pack one card at a time and learn what we can just from that pack. No archetype lists, no explanation of mechanics, just what’s on the cards. It’s a great way to both see what the packs can tell us, but also…
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Design Crossover – Transformers Card Game
We’ve got Bass back on the pod to tell us EVERYTHING about the short-lived Transformers TCG! This game burned short but burned bright.
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You Make the Pack: Duplicate Sealed
Hi All! We recently finished our 6th pack of You Make the Pack. IgnitedxSoul and I have been kicking some tires on doing a Duplicate Sealed for these six packs, so I wanted to share some highlights from the packs for anybody interested. What is Duplicate Sealed? Sealed is a format where players open booster…
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Going Nova Challenge Review
Who needs to cast spells when you can sit back and let your creatures do the casting? Just the easy life for us! Fortunately our listeners did the work and submitted creatures-who-cast-spells for us to review.
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Design Crossover – Wingspan
We’re back with a new crossover episode! Peter explains everything Tim needs to know about Wingspan, then they ride the wave of inspiration into a variety of mechanics for Magic! You don’t need to know anything about Wingspan to listen (Tim didn’t!)
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It’s Not Just a Phase, Mom
Spurred by the idea of simultaneous, Peter and Tim delve into all the phases and steps of a turn! After honing our understanding of each one, we also break out into some free form ideas.