• Mailbag Episode! Tim Answers Your Questions

    Mailbag Episode! Tim Answers Your Questions

    You’ve got questions, we’ve got an episode! We’ve got a whopping twenty-five questions packed into this episode, so you better press play! Theme music by Dee Culp “Misty Bog” by Eric Maytas soundimage.org Join Beacon of Creation’s Discord:  Show…

Card of the Day

  • Prize-Winning Griffin

    Meant to help push an aspect of the enchantment theme in WUR in Contenders. Adds a mana on top of Heliod’s Pilgrim in exchange for an extra power and flying. A great base to build Auras onto!

    Designed By Tim Reilly
  • Eight Legs Challenge Review w/Squares that Cube

    Eight Legs Challenge Review w/Squares that Cube

    Two-thirds of the Squares that Cube podcast join the pod this week to break down YOUR submissions to our Octopus-Overloaded challenge, Eight Legs a Week! Will our six arms be enough??

  • Mailbag Episode! Tim Answers Your Questions

    Mailbag Episode! Tim Answers Your Questions

    You’ve got questions, we’ve got an episode! We’ve got a whopping twenty-five questions packed into this episode, so you better press play! Theme music by Dee Culp “Misty Bog” by Eric Maytas soundimage.org Join Beacon of Creation’s Discord:  Show…

  • “To The Nines” Challenge Review

    “To The Nines” Challenge Review

    We’re putting on our finest outfits and securing our monocles as we review the “To the Nines” challenge review. You all submitted equipment, but you weren’t allowed to use the Equip ability!

  • Join Moxtober!

    Join Moxtober!

    What is Moxtober? For those of you who don’t know. Moxtober is a month long creative challenge like Inktober, but focused around Magic the Gathering creative projects in general, and for a lot of people specifically around custom Magic cards. 31 prompts, 31 days. How do I participate? The simplest way to participate is to submit…

  • Designing for IPs and Moxtober Hype!

    Designing for IPs and Moxtober Hype!

    Kayiu and Juliet tackle what makes designing for an IP swing or miss, covering Portal: Three Kingdoms and Chikyu: Ruined Future.

  • Champion’s Podium! League Wrap-Up w/Provocative and Brad

    Champion’s Podium! League Wrap-Up w/Provocative and Brad

    Our last pod about Design League 3 is here! We’ve got both league champ Prov and runner-up Brad here to talk about their process, the planes, and their ideas for the future!

  • Sunset Sacrifice! League Finals Entry from Provocative

    Sunset Sacrifice! League Finals Entry from Provocative

    Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Provocative’s entry, and you’ll hear all about some new tokens, Rakdos planeswalkers, and why the sun is bad!

  • Design League Season 3 – Finals and Winner

    Design League Season 3 – Finals and Winner

    The Final Challenge of Design League Season 3! Who was our winner?

  • I Wanna Rock! League Finals Entry from Bradley Rose

    I Wanna Rock! League Finals Entry from Bradley Rose

    Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Bradley Rose’s entry, and you’ll learn about it along with us. Super exciting! Join our Discord: Show Notes:

  • Running an All-Magic Weekend

    Running an All-Magic Weekend

    Calming beach views, cooking for your friends, and all the Magic you could want! Tim and guest Shobi make the case for taking out a whole weekend with friends for playing Magic. Too much? Or not enough?

  • Spinning Templates! Tightening Rules Text

    Spinning Templates! Tightening Rules Text

    Bloomburrow’s rules change to “enters” has us hungry for more! Can we shorten “once a turn”, “flicker”, “end of turn”, and more? Join our tour of rules text minutiae.

  • Design League Season 3 – Tournament Round 3 Results

    Design League Season 3 – Tournament Round 3 Results

    We started this semi-final with four competitors and are cutting down to our final two. Let’s review the challenge! Tournament Round 3 – The Strixhaven Teaser Challenge For this challenge, we ask our competitors to give us a sampler of a Strixhaven return set. The catch? You have a Maro // The Duelist style Set…

  • Following Signposts – Bloomburrow

    Following Signposts – Bloomburrow

    Bloomburrow is here! We’ve had a look at the archetypes, and it’s time for us to break down the design of each of them using our four categories.