Beacon of Creation

The Scholar of Segue joins the pod this week to talk through game design goals for 2022. We talk about all phases of making games, from testing to layout to printing!

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Our wave of Build a Guild content crests with a big discussion with "the Guildmaster" Kayiu!

We promise we will eventually release non-Guild content in the new year! :) See you then!!!

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Our Build a Guild challenge got so big we filled almost a month! We review the last crop of submissions. I hope you enjoy!

MonoWhiteBorder - GW - Exile Matters

James Gover - UG - untap ramp and syncs

The dark middle chapter of our Build a Guild challenge! We got so many we made three eps of it. This ep has:

Justnigel - RW Nostalgic Hero

Leem - RG - Green Red Dragons.

Romacchino13 - UB - Return to…

Our Build a Guild challenge, full of your super sweet archetype ideas, gets reviewed! We got so many we're splitting it into three eps. This ep has:

MBTree - BG - Deathtouch + Morbid

Juliet - RW - “1…

With Adam out, MonoWhiteBorder AKA Peter jumps on to Make it More Magical! 

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Upshift or downshift? We play a game where we start with a card, then either upshift or downshift it to a new rarity!

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We review an amazing SIXTEEN submissions to our "Friends and Family" challenge. We asked for hybrid Red/White rares and got more submissions than there are existing cards! Adam saves the best for las…

We're tackling "salty" Commander cards this week! Finding usable inspiration from some of the most oppressive cards around. A tough tasks makes for a long episode!

Cards discussed:

Stasis Jokulhaups …

Castmire is the spooky, spiraling mansion set that you can help develop! We finished up our 8th milestone (and Moxtober), so now it's time to test. There's a fun new way to track our testing and we'r…

We review your sweet Black/Green Pumpkin Patch cards!

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It's happening!!

The new Mechanical Color Pie article is out, and we're all eager to learn as much as we can! Adam and Tim take turns quizzing each other, and you can play along.

Mechanical Color Pi…

Jeremy Geist is joining Wizards, and has left us a big challenge: Five Design Challenges for GDS4

In this ep we attempt part one of the challenge, designing seven cards to start as the seed of a lim…

We bring MonoWhiteBorder back on to review your submissions for the Good Bones Morph/Visit commander! Tons of sweet (Ice Age??) cards and clever new cards!

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We review your design submissions for our Midnight Hunt challenge! These are all sweet cards that would fit in the new Innistrad set!

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And c…

Mono-White aficionado MonoWhiteBorder joins us to brew a Commander precon!

New Design Challenge:

Submit one existing card and design one new card that fits with Good Bones: "Good Bones" Hauzer 1W Leg…

Lately, Adam's been playing Shandalar, the mid-90s RPG where you collect Magic cards to play against the AI. Let's dive into what makes this game still work today. G-Host Juliet also joins to share h…

Adam and Tim have a convo about the design of all these sweet new Innistrad cards! 

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We talk with Perry K about his focus channel and his experience working on Castmire!

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