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Witching Hour Challenge Review, part 1
Spooky season just ended… but out from the shadows jump almost a dozen great warlock submissions! Our listeners are balancing warlock flavor against “lord” mechanics.
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Role Call w/Pat
Pat joins Juliet for a role of a lifetime, rolling to design cards that in turn create new custom Role Aura tokens! Lookout for some spicy red cards, while being careful that your Serpent Warriors don’t Betray you. Do these cards have that certain Je Ne Sais Quoi? Catch Juliet’s new show about Paper Mario…
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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Year of Mechanics + Moxtober Combo! Live Design w/rexxer3
We’ve got three cards to design this week! We pick back up with rexxer3 on their “Year of Mechanics” project, which has official stretched past a whole year due to how many mechanics Magic has! One card per mechanic, and this month there is a special twist. Each mechanic is paired with one of our…
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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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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!
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Lore Detectives! They Made the Pack, Can We Order It?!
This one is for the flavor text lovers! Tim and Juliet have to dissect the flavor in this mystery pack from Peter. The pack’s story has an order, and it’s up to us to figure it out! Very much a Custom Magic episode.
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All About Quests w/Qirn
Starting in Zendikar, quests have been a fun way to build towards a goal. This week’s guest, Qirn, has been thinking all about quests for a Legend of Zelda set and has some ideas.
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Alien Space Survival! Outpost Zero w/IgnitedxSoul
We’ve got Beacon regular IgnitedxSoul, aka Dylan, on the pod this week! The topic is Outpost Zero, a sci-fi horror set, but more specifically we’re diving into some problem draft archetypes in the set.
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Trick the Hosts! April Fools Design Challenge
Don’t miss this ep! Our listeners each sent us one of two things: either a custom card (of any design) or a real card with the name and types changed. The job for us hosts is to guess which is which, and you can play along! Join Beacon of…
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Live Design – Tarkir Dragonstorm but make it Alchemy!
With Dragonstorm out but Alchemy not yet revealed, we’re taking a shot at some ideas for Arena play with these new mechanics! Long time discord member Craftedlavaistrue joins Tim and Peter for a trio of new cards.