Beacon of Creation

Continuing our march to fill up Castmire with sweet cards, we talk about some haunted house tropes and dive into some sweet challenges!

Design challenges, due Feb 10th, 6pm PT:

DC17 "Exit Strategy" -…

The original Goblin King, Jay Zeffren, stops by to talk about GoblinGame and review a bunch of design challenges!

Design challenges, due Feb 3rd, 6pm PT:

DC15: "Resonance Theory" - A common showing o…

We talk villains and review villain and signpost cards! And what is that shadow gathering among us...

Design challenges, due Jan 27th, 6pm PT:

DC13: "Lord's Command" - Design a white card that is str…

Larcent joins the podcast to discuss Theros: Beyond Death!

Design challenges, due Jan 20th, 6pm:

DC11: "Nefarious Plan" - A legendary monocolored villain and their signature spell. DC12: "Sign Langua…

Adam, Bradley and Tim each bring a cycle to talk about and then review DC10, which is about haunting cycles in Castmire.

No design challenge this week. We're saving lots of time to talk about Theros:…

Ada, Bradley and Tim ring in the new year with three more Castmire challenges. 

Next week's design challenge is: DC10 - “Spin Cycle” Make a cycle of commons with a haunting theme.

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Bradley and Tim invite early Castmire star Markus Leben, AKA @Mark_Confidant, to discuss the second batch of design challenges!

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2:58 D…

We discuss all the hot topics from Castmire's relaunch and review entries for the first three design challenges!

3:54 Castmire Hot Topics

17:51 DC1 - "Common Sense" Discussion

35:57 DC2 - "Uncommon G…

Castmire, the custom set born along with Beacon of Creation, returns! We invite Trevor Cashmore, the number one Castmire fan, on the podcast to talk about all the sweet new stuff planned for the set'…

Tim's Contenders set had an update recently and we cover the changes!

Next week's challenge: GET HYPE for next week's 100th episode!

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Brad shares some questions from the process of making a core set for the National Game Design Month. Then we review some bonus Costumes and the Soul of X challenge.

Next week's challenge: Design a ca…

Three more days of Moxtober custom designs, plus Costumes for Brad's Halloween Cube! These costumes are super sweet special cards that are drafted along with the cube but you wear rather than playing…

Our Moxtober and Halloween plans had to be postponed for a week, so Gaby joins Tim for an episode discussing cubes and cube picks. Think of this as a bonus episode that we're sneaking into regular nu…

We review the fourth full week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com

If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twitter,…

We review the third thrilling week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com

If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twit…

We review the second exciting week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com

If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twit…

We review the first week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com

If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twitter, post …

Learn about the unique aspects to Bradley's Halloween Cube! This spooky set twists things a little beyond the usual Innistrad cube.

Our challenge for next week: Design a costume piece. You'll have to…

We combine our and your Eldraine card ideas for this all-design challenge episode. Covering new ways to use Adventure, Adamant, equipment, and more!

Our challenge for next week: Design a colored arti…

Inspired by last week's talk of old cards in the Estate Sale Cube, the hosts select and discuss a variety of old card designs that have bad aspects to them. Then we discuss the retro card design chal…