• Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod

    Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod

    Juliet and game designer Brendan McLeod dispel Ondore’s lies as they talk about Final Fantasy XII’s sparse appearances in the canon “Magic: The Gathering–FINAL FANTASY”, and set out to make a jeskai Commander deck with all new designs for the game’s…

  • You Make the Pack, But Like, Right Now!

    You Make the Pack, But Like, Right Now!

    We’ve told you about You Make the Pack, now it’s time to do it!! We’ve got some live design this week, making submissions for the YMTP event.

  • Create a Custom Set in a Month!

    Create a Custom Set in a Month!

    How do you make your own set in a month? The power of friendship! Beacon regular Brad (aka Redbay) breaks down the schedule he and Peter (MonoWhiteBorder) used to finish and release an entire set in a month. There’s a TON of great tips for making sets…

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
  • Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod

    Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod

    Juliet and game designer Brendan McLeod dispel Ondore’s lies as they talk about Final Fantasy XII’s sparse appearances in the canon “Magic: The Gathering–FINAL FANTASY”, and set out to make a jeskai Commander deck with all new designs for the game’s…

  • 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!!

  • Design League Season 3 – Qualifiers 2 and 3 Results

    Design League Season 3 – Qualifiers 2 and 3 Results

    Results article for Design League Season 3 Qualifiers 2 and 3.

  • 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.