• Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics

    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…

  • May B.C. Challenge Review

    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.

  • Design Crossover – Dragon Ball Z TCG (2000)

    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!

Card of the Day

  • Prize-Winning Griffin

    Meant 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!

    Designed By Tim Reilly
  • Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics

    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…

  • Design Crossover – Teamfight Tactics w/Shawn Elizabeth Main!

    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!!

  • Cascade Challenge Review

    Cascade Challenge Review

    We asked for your gold Cascade + Discover designs and you responded! A full seventeen submissions for this challenge, all inspiring fun ways to play with cards off the top.

  • Hat Trick! Random Hats with Random Legends

    Hat Trick! Random Hats with Random Legends

    Coming off fedoras on Faerie Detectives and Stetsons on Homarids, Redbay cooked up a “hats for legends” generator! He and MonoWhiteBorder grab some hats, put them on some fan favorites, and do some live design.

  • Design League Season 3 – Qualifier 1 Results

    Design League Season 3 – Qualifier 1 Results

    DLS3Q1 Results Article

  • All About Eldrazi

    All About Eldrazi

    Modern Horizons 3 is bringing back the broods and titans, so it’s time to venture back into the Blind Eternities! The Eldrazi are a super-cool creature type that has gotten some, but not a ton, of exploration over the years.

  • How to Win Design League

    How to Win Design League

    Design League starts back up May 26th, and to get you ready we’ve got League Emperor Redbay and longtime judges Juliet and Tim. They talk through the process, their judging styles, and even live design and judge a card on air!

  • Design Crossover – Midnight Suns

    Design Crossover – Midnight Suns

    Heat up your cauldron and practice your hexes because we’re going goth! We’re looking at the videogame Midnight Suns and seeing what we can carry back into Magic.

  • Solar Eclipse Challenge Review

    Solar Eclipse Challenge Review

    We’re taking your submissions one day (and night) at a time! We asked for your common day/nightbound cards and we got a bumper crop!

  • Following Signposts – Thunder Junction Arc-Uns, part 2

    Following Signposts – Thunder Junction Arc-Uns, part 2

    Time to bring the cows home! We’ve got the second half of our new episode format, where we check out all the draft archetypes of a set. This is focused on the gold cards and on Wizard’s description of the pairs. Our categories are: Excitement: Is…

  • Following Signposts – Thunder Junction Arc-Uns, part 1

    Following Signposts – Thunder Junction Arc-Uns, part 1

    New set! New mechanics! New episode format??? We kick the tires on a new way to break down arcuns, those gold cards we get every set that help define draft.

  • Survey of Extra Turns Cards

    Survey of Extra Turns Cards

    This week we are Beacon of Tomorrows, a podcast about time! We look over all the ways Magic has to take extra turns and try to brainstorm some new directions. From Alpha to Dr Who there are many ways to keep it going.