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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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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 – Esper ft. Esper
Juliet and Esper witness the carefully-designed majesty of magister sphinxes on the white-blue-black Esper shard, from its played-everywhere cards to possibly the worst card in all of Magic: The Gathering. Join Beacon of Creation’s Discord: Show Notes:
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Moxtober Card Highlights! The Newbies are Here!
Moxtober is our yearly event where we design cards based on a daily, This year, we’re putting the spotlight on all our new submitters (plus a few who came back!).
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Going Ghost Challenge Review
You all went quiet on us… but then came back! In the Going Ghost challenge, we asked for cards that blink out but take some time to come back. Plenty of spooky ghosts and funny flavor to be found in this ep! Join Beacon of Creation’s Discord:Â …
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Favorite Flavor – Skeletons
Juliet and Mdub dig up the bones of Magic’s Skeletons—from the ever-imitated Drudge Skeletons, to Skeletons that are Swamps, to modern Demilichs, not forgetting a number of cards that are clearly Skeletons in all but name.
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Following Signposts – Duskmourn
We’re back again with a deep dive on the uncommon gold cards of the newest set! We’re honing our instincts on the design of these types of cards, and talk about how to apply it to our own designs. Join Beacon of Creation’s Discord: Show Notes:
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Mailbag Episode! Tim Answers Your Questions
You’ve got questions, we’ve got an episode! We’ve got a whopping twenty-five questions packed into this episode, so you better press play! Theme music by Dee Culp “Misty Bog” by Eric Maytas soundimage.org Join Beacon of Creation’s Discord:Â Show…
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“To The Nines” Challenge Review
We’re putting on our finest outfits and securing our monocles as we review the “To the Nines” challenge review. You all submitted equipment, but you weren’t allowed to use the Equip ability!
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Designing for IPs and Moxtober Hype!
Kayiu and Juliet tackle what makes designing for an IP swing or miss, covering Portal: Three Kingdoms and Chikyu: Ruined Future.
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Champion’s Podium! League Wrap-Up w/Provocative and Brad
Our last pod about Design League 3 is here! We’ve got both league champ Prov and runner-up Brad here to talk about their process, the planes, and their ideas for the future!
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Eight Legs Challenge Review w/Squares that Cube
Two-thirds of the Squares that Cube podcast join the pod this week to break down YOUR submissions to our Octopus-Overloaded challenge, Eight Legs a Week! Will our six arms be enough??