Beacon of Creation

Juliet and Redbay talk through a draft of Redbay's three-color factions set, Traegar. Along the way, they discuss different ways of looking at high-power environments, the compromises and top-down vi…

Your challenge was using concept art from the 2024 Magic sets. Our job is to review them all and pick our favorites! From tiny pirate ships to Italian assassins to twenty-one swords, this month's Des…

Alert! Super fun episode!! Community members Dillon and patrick went on a spree of designing Squad mechanics. Monsquadsity, Ninsquadtsu, Squecho, Musquade, and dozens more!

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Our big wrap up episode for Design League 2!!! We brought everyone on: the winner platypeople, runner-up Ludos, and league commissioner Redbay. We get the behind the scenes on the big finals submissi…

Tune into this post-playtest convo between MonoWhiteBorder and Juliet, breaking down MDub's new set. The theme is golden age of Hollywood, so expect spotlights, directors, extras, and more!

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A fun weekend draft turned into a conversation! Juliet ambushed Tim mid-draft with the recording bot and we talked through packs 2 and 3 and the first two games of the draft. Lots of individual card …

We issued the A Gust of Wind challenge for August, and now it's time to review your submissions! There are a bunch of ways you found to have blue spells deal damage: gold cards, drawbacks, even damag…

Kayiu and Tim crack open platypeople's pack for the "Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo" Finals challenge for the Design League! We saw LudosGD's entry earlier in the week, how will the two stack up…

Tim and Kayiu are excited to crack open LudosGD's entry into the "Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo" challenge finals! This is both a card-by-card Unpacking as well as their judging conversation. M…

The Design League is roaring towards its conclusion and we've got highlights from the tournament rounds! Round 2's Planeswalker vacations and Round 3's color-coordinated creature packs made for great…

In Unpacking, we go through the cards in a pack without knowing anything beyond that pack. Through this lens, we try to guess themes, mechanics, flavor, and more!

This time we're looking at Primivir …

Worlds collide with community member Fblthp's League of Legends-themed MEGAset. We get the download on the shape of the Jumpstart packs and then get some flavor and cards for the Noxus faction.

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Tokens, Two-Headed Giant, and Draft collide with the "Two-ken Play At That Game" challenge! You all scoured Scryfall for the most obscure tokens and cooked up your coolest multiplayer cards! Tim and …

Kayiu and Juliet bring on Queen Emily to talk about her latest completed project, Songs of Yisai!  Inspired by Jewish mythology and biblical sources, this set mixes artifacts, enchantments, and a WUB…

Commander Redbay has launched the fleet of League designers into the world of planet-scale sci-fi adventure! Tim and Juliet set the stage for this setting and then highlight cards from the recently c…

Buggy big bugs! We asked for your 6/3 insects with some sort of design flaw. We got a swarm of submissions, so I brought on Hayley as a guest! The "bugs" in each card are each their own little puzzle…

This week Juliet brings on Middle Earth Horse Expert Westley to discuss all the horse cards of the new LOTR set! An episode sure to be a colt classic.

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Jump into another world with a Lord of the Rings custom set made before the Wizards set! Bass walks us through the brainstorm and playtesting of his ideas for Middle Earth. If you like keywords and m…

We've got custom Magic superstar Pipsqueak back on the pod this week to talk about her set Animus Vox. Space exploration, music, and contemplation set the mood for this great set.

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May's challenge asked the community for cards using "modified" that had cosmetic flavor. We've got 16 great cards to talk about and Tim and MWB dive right in!

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