Category: Show Notes
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Elder Dragon Challenge Review
March’s challenge was all about designing new twists on the elder dragons! Nicol and family, Tarkir dragons, Strixhaven, and a few other twists. Guest Cole AKA EclipseMeteor hops in to gush about all these sweet designs!
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Mechanics Draft! First Ten Years
We strategize, agonize, and finally pick mechanics from Magic’s past, snake drafted one at a time! What starts as a simple exercise turns into a thrilling competition. Everything from the pre-Modern era of Magic is on the table except for those pesky evergreen keywords.
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Unpacking Settling Idyll
This week we are looking at the custom set Settling Idyll by Provocative! We are going in only knowing a single image: a heroic mech guarding a town.
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Unpacking the Plundering of Guemhill w/Dodger
The Beacon community finished a second You Make the Pack, where we build a 15 card pack together. This week Kayiu brings on guest Dodger to see how we did!