A show about design in Magic: the Gathering. Each week we cover both official cards and custom cards made by the community. The weekly design challenge gives you the opportunity to make it on the show! Hosted by Tim, Juliet, Kayiu and Markus, with guests!
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Next week: DC38 "Back Again" - Redesign up to two cards in the file based on what won the flashback haunt poll.
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For our bonus episode this weekend, we take a break from custom Magic design and instead start building a cube together! This episode is more free flowing, with a lot of little insights and ideas.
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Next week: DC37 "Startling Changes" - Propose a change to the startle mechanic and showcase it with an existing startle card in the set.
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We double up the pod this week for a discussion of Contender's loyalty rules, its limitations discovered in testing, and a whole slew of alternates.
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Next week: DC36 "Be Our Guest" - Submit up to two flashback-style haunt cards at common with Dillon's flavor in mind.
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We talk about how the Castmire playtesting went for Milestone 2 and talk a lot about haunt and startle and the future of those mechanics.
We onboard new folks and talk a bit about Milestone 2 and the direction Castmire is going.
Next week: DC35 "Be Our Guest" - Write a short description of why and how the residents of Castmire are in…
In which your heroes talk about startle and go over user submitted designs.
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We review the second half of our Haunting submissions and discuss possible paths forward for Haunting on Castmire!
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We outline Milestone 2 and review DC31's haunting designs. DC32's discussion will come later this week.
Next week: DC33 "Red Scare" - Red common creature that startles.
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The missing middle of episode 117 is here! We lovingly tear into all of the Visit alternative ideas for more than an hour!
Time Warp sound effect by Mike Koenig
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We review your submissions for tweaks to Castmire cards after the Milestone 1 playtest. A second, monster episode about Visit is coming later this week!
DC31 "Haunter" - Design a card that includes h…
Our weekend playtest with the Castmire community generated tons of data! We go over the results of the surveys, which leads into lots of little discussions on cards in the set.
The design challenges …
G-Host Juliet joins us as we talk Castmire playtesting!!! Get excited!!! The fun starts this Saturday! We also review some chunky white creatures and some a-Door-able green rares.
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Supremely helpful Discord member Mark A (what does the A even stand for????) joins us to review some of the last few commons for Castmire Milestone 1! It's almost time to playtest all of our communit…
With the end of Castmire Milestone 1 approaching, we review some of the remaining keywords and costs that each color are missing.
Next week's Design Challenges:
DC25 “Black Hole” - Make a black commo…
Bradley reports back from Reno! Then, Design Challenge reviews where we discover items behind doors and spells that were inside us all along.
Next week's Design Challenges:
DC23 "Home Renovation" - R…
Following our new listener episode last week, we switch back into going deep on listener design challenge submissions! We've got equipment-loving blue creatures and deadly hexproof creatures to revie…
New to the podcast or new to custom Magic cards? This episode is designed to get you up to speed! Juliet Louis joins us to help describe what it's like to make your own Magic card sets. We also intro…
Bradley grills Tim about his Magic-packed weekend, talking about a wide variety of Magic formats. Then the two hosts discuss cards themed around The Exit and a bunch of super-funny cards referencing …