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Live Design – The Year of Mechanics w/rexxer2
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! We’ve got a combo episode this week. Part project showoff, part live design, and all weird old mechanics. Rexxer2 aka Spencer hops on the pod with Tim to talk through this mechanic-a-day project and then dive in to design three of the cards! Fans (if…
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Rhoxtober Challenge Review
Spooky season meets rhinoceroses in our monthly challenge! We got your best card ideas submitted throughout the month and we cover the entries in this episode.
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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Following Signposts – Avatar the Last Airbender
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! We’re back again on the trail, following where the signposts lead us in draft. This new Avatar set has some new twists on the uncommon gold “archetype” cards and overall has some new ideas on structure. How do you structure a set with four types…
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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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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??
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Sunset Sacrifice! League Finals Entry from Provocative
Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Provocative’s entry, and you’ll hear all about some new tokens, Rakdos planeswalkers, and why the sun is bad!
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Design League Season 3 – Finals and Winner
The Final Challenge of Design League Season 3! Who was our winner?
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I Wanna Rock! League Finals Entry from Bradley Rose
Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Bradley Rose’s entry, and you’ll learn about it along with us. Super exciting! Join our Discord: Show Notes:
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Running an All-Magic Weekend
Calming beach views, cooking for your friends, and all the Magic you could want! Tim and guest Shobi make the case for taking out a whole weekend with friends for playing Magic. Too much? Or not enough?
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Spinning Templates! Tightening Rules Text
Bloomburrow’s rules change to “enters” has us hungry for more! Can we shorten “once a turn”, “flicker”, “end of turn”, and more? Join our tour of rules text minutiae.
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Following Signposts – Bloomburrow
Bloomburrow is here! We’ve had a look at the archetypes, and it’s time for us to break down the design of each of them using our four categories.
