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THE Horse Challenge Review, part 2
Our massive “Year of THE Horse” challenge review continues! You sent us way more submissions than ever before, including mount[ain] kings, the biggest lore dragon, a goat, and many horses.
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THE Horse Challenge Review, part 1
You better be ready for extensive horse content!!! So much saddle, from more traditional beasts to a doting dad. Come get your fill but be ready to come back for more next week.
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YOUR Fractured Planeswalkers!
Last week’s episode about color-shifted “Fractured” planeswalkers set off a firestorm of design in the Discord! This week we’re going over a bunch of those cards. GrandNagus aka Weasel joins us on the pod for the first time to share their card, too.
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Fractured Planeswalkers! Classic Characters in New Colors
Orzhov Ral Zarek is just the beginning! Khord and Tim collaborate on the idea of switched up colors for planeswalkers. Water wizard Chandra? Tezzeret with wooden limbs? Kaito the samurai?
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Febru-Air Challenge Review, part 2
Juliet and Tim review your submissions for the 4/4 flier challenge. Along the way, they dive deep into what makes a keyword plausible, an ability word worthwhile, and randomness in gameplay fun or unfun. Submissions Red Bay Xena mothyawg kuyashiiPlays JamesDaltonBell MrMister72 MythicDraegon Larcent Dragon of the West MonoWhiteBorder Mini Spice Duchess ChrisTomReilly
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Febru-Air Challenge Review, part 1
This month’s challenge standardizes the cost and size: 5 mana, 4/4 flier. From there, our designers could go wherever they want! Plenty of fun designs and great discussion, plus a thorough look into the nature of humanity. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Topics and Tidbits: Submissions Inte CryptRat PlumtreeChloe MissLys Juliet Qirn AuxiliaryOtter Andrew YABO…
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What Makes a Teenage Turtle Mutant?
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! Juliet poses a philsophical question on the nature of identity and gets a crash course on TMNT from turtle-expert Riley Hopkins. In the face of Ooze, does patience or pizza win out? Did you know that Splinter is a cross-universe pun the whole time? Along…
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Following Signposts – Lorwyn Eclipsed, plus Hybrid Talk
Our usual Following Signposts faces its biggest challenge yet: Lorwyn Eclipse’s crazy draft structure! Part traditional set, part hybrid nonsense, with 8 archetypes instead of 5 or 10. Tons of hybrid talk, which is looking to be a key part of the UB small set era. Khord’s stuff: https://linktr.ee/Khord22 Topics and Tidbits Tim’s Ratings Excitement…
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Janus-uary Challenge Review, pt 2
Flip over last week’s episode because we’ve got a whole extra pod on the back! More of your two-sided noncreature cards this week. We’ve got references to Alpha, 1500s paintings, multiple Rakdos goopy trash cards, and a Battle for the finale. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Tidbits and topics: Submissions ChrisTomReilly (New submitter!!!) mothyawg (New…
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Janus-uary Challenge Review, pt 1
This month’s challenge asked you to submit double sided cards where neither side is a creature. The star of the show, though, is the bonus challenge, which was to also make the card easy to read! Along the way Juliet talks about reading Tolstoy, Tim asks for a famous web app, and Guff rewrites history.