Tag: pod-timfreilly
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Following Signposts – Avatar the Last Airbender
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! We’re back again on the trail, following where the signposts lead us in draft. This new Avatar set has some new twists on the uncommon gold “archetype” cards and overall has some new ideas on structure. How do you structure a set with four types…
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Rhoxtober Challenge Review
Spooky season meets rhinoceroses in our monthly challenge! We got your best card ideas submitted throughout the month and we cover the entries in this episode.
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Back to Battlebond! Bradley Brainstorming Bonanza
Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and now Youtube Music! This week we’re headed joining heads to brainstorm a ton of new ideas for 2HG draft! The episode starts with a recap of Battlebond along with cracking a sample pack. Once the table it set, we settle in to the big brainstorming session, sharing over…
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Studying the State of Design 2025
This week Gabe’s bringing the Mark Rosewater’s State of Design 2025 article to the pod. We’ve picked our favorite points from the article and talk through the implications and lessons. Some of these sets aren’t that old but feel ancient now! It was…
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High Octane Cube Selesnya w/zurishmi
This week we’re putting aside our usual design goals and focusing on a new one: creating cards good enough to hang in a high powered cube! Selesnya hasn’t gotten as much love as the other color pairs in high power formats, but our community is here to…
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Hit the Books Challenge Review
This challenge review dives into “spellbook” technology from Arena. What cool cards can you design when that card has access to three other cards? We got a ton of submissions again, so you’ll learn all about the possible tech! Join Beacon of…
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Design Crossover – Once Upon a Galaxy
Big episode! Alexis Janson breaks down their game and helps brainstorm how to steal some of that technology for our own Magic designs. Alexis was a Beacon host way back in the day, so you know they’re ready to go deep on the design and ideas behind…
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Through the Omenpaths Re-Flavoring
Wizards is releasing Through the Omenpaths, a full reflavoring of their Spider-Man set. That got us curious how the existing Universes Beyond sets could be redone too! Khord jumps on the pod as we tackle cards from LotR, 40k, Doctor Who, and more.
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Objection Challenge Review, Part 2
Our packed court of Objection! submissions wraps up this week with another packed ep full of great cards! This wide open challenge asked submitters to design a mechanic called “Objection” and we got SO MANY versions.
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Objection Challenge Review, Part 1
You won’t hear me objecting to so many design submissions, but you WILL hear all about the first half of our cards with the Objection mechanic! Keywords, ability words, and flavor, this challenge is all about defining “Objection!”