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Marvel Jumpstart Rules, Let’s Talk About Why
We catch everyone up on Jumpstart, breakdown strengths and weaknesses, then go pack by pack in Marvel Jumpstart to get some specific lessons from the designs.
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Juno Challenge Review, part 3
Wrap up our “hatebears” challenge with your best 2 mana 2/2s that slow down your opponents’ strategy. As usual, your submissions drifted from that starting point into some exciting areas.
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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Sharpie Cube! Change Cards To Your Heart’s Content
Ever want to knock a mana off a creature? Remove a bad drawback from a land? Sharpie Cube is the idea of redacting rules text. Always subtraction, never addition.
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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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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.
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Design Crossover – Dragon Ball Z TCG (2000)
Crossover ep! What can we steal for MTG? For this ep, our hair is turning gold, our energy is radiating from our bodies, and normal humans can’t even see our attacks because it’s Dragon Ball Z!