Beacon of Creation

Welcome to chapter ten of Design Rush, a quick-on-your-feet card design showcase, hosted by Juliet Louis!

This episode's contestants are Aaron & Caro!

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Juliet and Kayiu compare and contrast the different nautical and underwater sets, both seen in the Summer Set Spotlight and beyond. They ask "What does it mean to be young near the shore?" and whethe…

"In a world of water, humanity battles against all of the horrors of the deep as what little land that remains sinks into the ocean."

Learn all about this artifacts-and-enchantments set where steampu…

This week we've got all of your submissions for the Commonaria Design Challenge!

We've got origin stories, multiple Squees, Danitha's boss, Teferi's timelines, deep lore, deep diving, first strike, Y…

Brandon aka Slayerbfm stuck around to recap Magic Camp with Tim. This is a long weekend full of Magic, and we cover all the sweet formats we played! Cubes, commander, and more.

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Interested in stickers and "legacy"-style cubes? Brandon comes on the pod hot off back-to-back plays of his Chaos Cube! Phyrexian Mana, extra keywords, color shifting and more are all possible. If th…

You loved it, we loved it, so it's back! Kayiu has picked a new group of cards from MSE Modern, the biggest format of custom Magic. He's quizzing Juliet and Adam on whether each of those cards is rel…

A surprising number of very angry trees showed up to our design challenge, so we line them up and hear their complaints one by one. We've got a shrub looking for a quartet, a tree looking for some sn…

We're taking shelter under the yuletide tree to review your submissions for the latest design challenge! We've got double trees, angry trees, viking trees, provoking trees, flipping trees, trees for …

Juliet and Kayiu hit the waves to discover some cursed omens and trusty first mates of the pirate set Dark Seas of Shiryen by CanterburyEgg, in this second episode of a mini-series exploring differen…

Kayiu gives Tim and Markus a tour of the MSE Modern format through a guessing game! MSEM is the largest custom format, encompassing ~60 sets. Kayiu brought a dozen cards and our game is to predict wh…

We've got another nine swines this week for our review of the When Pigs Fly Design Challenge! Listen in for suspended bibles, crying in the exile zone, a trip to nwotrovalf, HOPs, double bundles, and…

It's a rare event when pigs fly, and it's a rare crossover with Tim and Juliet doing the Challenge Review! We've got floating flocks, Akroma-level pigs, apple cars, Homestuck, PbtA, Italian pilots, a…

Summer is here — let's hit the beaches! Juliet and Kayiu dive right into Elmare: Into the Abyss by Dodger in the first episode of this mini-series exploring different exciting executions on the idea …

The Agonos cube aspires to bring a better Vintage cube experience. It's a blast to draft, and we had to get creator ThatDamnPipsqueak on to learn how to build Vintage-level drafting.

Two ways to chec…

Community contributor Redbay hops on the pod to get everyone hype for Milestone 9 of Castmire, to be completed soon! Lots of new cards and some great lessons learned this time around.

Castmire's can …

We've got long-time community member, Goblin Artisan contributor, and long-necked avian Wobbles on the podcast this week.

The topic is Wobbles' cycle of monocolor mini-cubes, each tackling the constr…

Tim and Markus go through your submissions to the Name Inverter challenge! We read, behold, channel and traverse a baker's dozen of piping hot cards. 

You may submit a card to our new When Pigs Fly c…

Juliet and Kayiu have seen exciting sets under the auspices of Old, New, and Borrowed, so today they check out Something Blue with the Deep Blue Cube by Timespiraled! While there they discuss the fun…

As our Lorado episode this week was wrapping up, shadowcentaur kept reading the spoiler and having great memories of making the set. Not quite enough for a whole extra episode, but fun to hear.

Not a…