Beacon of Creation

The mother of machines and her armies loom large! We cover what phyrexia did in the past and what new mechanics could be corrupted for their purposes!

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Super special episode this week! Kayiu's here with a selection of cards from the custom Revolution format and it's up to MWB and Bradley to guess what hit and what didn't! 

Browse Revolution's sets a…

Don't be a grinch: open your heart up to all these sweet black and white Miracle cards! Fifteen sweet cards packed into one fun ep!

If you've got an idea for our new Baby New Year challenge, head to …

Design League contestants Juliet and MonoWhiteBorder take over the pod and talk through how they came up with their cards.

The challenges for reference:

Card A: Submit a non-white, mono-colored card …

We dive head-first into the anime pool this week, discussing the early 2000s series Naruto! We break down some core mechanics from the series in Magic terms, then sketch out how some of the character…

Deep dive into the eight qualifiers with help from league mastermind Redbay!

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League mastermind Redbay is here to catch everyone up on his Design League and to announce the tournament challenge! 

Hop onto the Discord now to follow along! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

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We've got just one pack to learn as much as we can about Dragons of Tarkir. What will it tell us? Is this secretly Muraganda? Are X/1s the name of the game? Is this set Silumgar vs Atarka? Are there …

We've got two pieces and it's time to meld these 8 challenges with Wednesday's 8!

There's parenthesis names, lectures, searches, bright futures, lairs, lols, acronyms and agoraphobes.

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We've got the URge to ZA this week with your design challenge submissions!

Listen in for scraps, warships, living robots, babies, lectures, expansions, walls, windows, and failures. Second half of th…

What could you learn from just a pack? This week we put aside anything we know about AVR and look at what one pack tells us. What are the themes and what does the gameplay look like?

Tell us what pac…

We've got a great new tribute set Legacies of Tarkir on the pod this week! Creator Fblthp is here to help us break down their classic take on Tarkir.

Full Set: https://cubeartisan.net/cube/yz/overvie…

Tentacles! Branches! Hooks! Bows! Armor! Turtle Power! Mr Fantastic! Pumpkins without the hyphen! Devils! Mogwai!

We've got it all in the second half of the Pump-kin challenge review. Your best and f…

We've got a card to preview for you for Spellslinger's upcoming Helvault Unsealed set! See if you can guess it, then let's think through all the decks and slingers it combos with! Wobbles leads the d…

All the critters come out for the Pump-kin challenge! All of your best pump spells with all your spookiest tribes. We've got healthy Skeletons, merfolks protecting the rim, scarecrows, swarms, eyes, …

Moxtober is finishing up and we're highlighting a bunch of special projects that go beyond the base "prompt a day" style submissions:

MWB's Classic Movie Monsters

Dillion's Legends reborn

Bradley's C…

PJ aka Commander Replay brings his Boros brewing knowledge to a Design Collab! We've got four commanders we're making cards for:

Tori D'Avenant, Fury Rider Augusta, Dean of Order Haktos the Unscarred…

Spellslingers is a faster, simpler Magic built for phones. Tim and Wobbles discuss the game, which also leads to discussion of how it might impact Magic design. There's a surprising amount to learn, …

Our second half review has group activities, reading assignments, equations, essentials, practice, dino bullies (??), bigger bubbles, Brendans, monochrome, and biology. Enjoy all these sweet cards!

M…

We cover the first half of the Back 2 School challenge, and after getting into our first couple classes we also review our training, looking for a phone charger, adopt a green lifestyle, and hear abo…