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Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities
Signpost gold cards are a great way to teach your drafters what archetypes and decks can be drafted in limited. By learning from retail Wizards sets, we can improve our design skills and make more fun sets ourselves.
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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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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.
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You Make the Pack! But What One Should We Make??
You Make the Pack is our community project where we build a pack of Magic cards, one card at a time! We’re looking at all the submissions that would kick off the new pack!
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Following Signposts – Aetherdrift
This week is all about drift archetypes! We break down all ten from the new set along with their gold cards. Are they exciting? Believeable? Synergistic? This is a great way to get familiar with the components of the set’s limited design.
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Design Crossover – Joyride: Survival of the Fastest
In this episode we learn about Joyride, a bumper car battle race board game. Along the way we brainstorm ideas in Magic inspired by this new game!
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The Beast Unleashed! Iterating a Set Mechanic
Would you like to listen to two people say the word “Beast” about two hundred times each? We have the episode for you.
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Design Crossover – Wingspan
We’re back with a new crossover episode! Peter explains everything Tim needs to know about Wingspan, then they ride the wave of inspiration into a variety of mechanics for Magic! You don’t need to know anything about Wingspan to listen (Tim didn’t!)
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It’s Not Just a Phase, Mom
Spurred by the idea of simultaneous, Peter and Tim delve into all the phases and steps of a turn! After honing our understanding of each one, we also break out into some free form ideas.
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Favorite Flavor – Skeletons
Juliet and Mdub dig up the bones of Magic’s Skeletons—from the ever-imitated Drudge Skeletons, to Skeletons that are Swamps, to modern Demilichs, not forgetting a number of cards that are clearly Skeletons in all but name.