• Final Fantasy Tactics (Advance!) Set w/ Judge Bones

    Final Fantasy Tactics (Advance!) Set w/ Judge Bones

    Passion project meets mainstream set release with Judge Bones’s Final Fantasy Tactics Advance project. Started before FIN and reinvented afterward, we talk through all the components he needs to jumpstart this fun adaptation. Learn a bit about some…

  • Card Coliseum: Sudden Death

    Card Coliseum: Sudden Death

    Design or Die! To celebrate Card Colosseum, Khord and Tim are design cards at lightning speed! Each prompt gets three minutes, for 15 cards all in one podcast. Listen to our answers to these prompts, then hop on the Discord and give us your versions!…

  • Live Design: Dual Lands, Novelty, and Callback

    Live Design: Dual Lands, Novelty, and Callback

    In this live-design episode, Tim and Juliet tackle a templating question based on the precedent of Party, with some help from Banding and Domain. Along the way, they examine the role that lands, dual lands, and 1/1s play in sequencing.

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
  • Finality Fantasy Challenge Review

    Finality Fantasy Challenge Review

    Your last chance on the battlefield! This month’s design challenge is all about finality counters. Bring creatures back, but not forever. Added on top is a whole lot of Universes Beyond-style top down flavor! Tune in to hear about all the twists our…

  • Final Fantasy Tactics (Advance!) Set w/ Judge Bones

    Final Fantasy Tactics (Advance!) Set w/ Judge Bones

    Passion project meets mainstream set release with Judge Bones’s Final Fantasy Tactics Advance project. Started before FIN and reinvented afterward, we talk through all the components he needs to jumpstart this fun adaptation. Learn a bit about some…

  • Design Crossover – Teamfight Tactics w/Shawn Elizabeth Main!

    Design Crossover – Teamfight Tactics w/Shawn Elizabeth Main!

    We’ve got a super cool guest for our episode this week! Principal game designer on the new Teamfight Tactics season, Shawn Elizabeth Main!!

  • Live Design: Dual Lands, Novelty, and Callback

    Live Design: Dual Lands, Novelty, and Callback

    In this live-design episode, Tim and Juliet tackle a templating question based on the precedent of Party, with some help from Banding and Domain. Along the way, they examine the role that lands, dual lands, and 1/1s play in sequencing.

  • Cube Cube and More Cube! Washington Cube Champs Recap w/daisyama and zurishmi

    Cube Cube and More Cube! Washington Cube Champs Recap w/daisyama and zurishmi

    Washington Cube Champs is a two day event packed with cube draft! Not just a niche format anymore, cube has its own events and tournaments, including WCC pulling in over a hundred players!

  • Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics

    Souped-Up Keywords! Your Upgrades On Old Mechanics

    With Tarkir Dragonstorm winding up, we’re following their lead and enhancing some old mechanics! Like going from Scavenge to Renew and Flashback to Harmonize, we asked the listeners to design some new mechanics based on old ones. Designing mechanics…

  • May B.C. Challenge Review

    May B.C. Challenge Review

    Elders… be they dragons, dinosaurs, or Final Fantasy villains, they’ve always got cool abilities and an epic feel. This week we review your submissions to the challenge of designing new Elders creatures.

  • Design Crossover – Dragon Ball Z TCG (2000)

    Design Crossover – Dragon Ball Z TCG (2000)

    Crossover ep! What can we steal for MTG? For this ep, our hair is turning gold, our energy is radiating from our bodies, and normal humans can’t even see our attacks because it’s Dragon Ball Z!

  • Lore Detectives! They Made the Pack, Can We Order It?!

    Lore Detectives! They Made the Pack, Can We Order It?!

    This one is for the flavor text lovers! Tim and Juliet have to dissect the flavor in this mystery pack from Peter. The pack’s story has an order, and it’s up to us to figure it out! Very much a Custom Magic episode.

  • All About Quests w/Qirn

    All About Quests w/Qirn

    Starting in Zendikar, quests have been a fun way to build towards a goal. This week’s guest, Qirn, has been thinking all about quests for a Legend of Zelda set and has some ideas.

  • Alien Space Survival! Outpost Zero w/IgnitedxSoul

    Alien Space Survival! Outpost Zero w/IgnitedxSoul

    We’ve got Beacon regular IgnitedxSoul, aka Dylan, on the pod this week! The topic is Outpost Zero, a sci-fi horror set, but more specifically we’re diving into some problem draft archetypes in the set.

  • Trick the Hosts! April Fools Design Challenge

    Trick the Hosts! April Fools Design Challenge

    Don’t miss this ep! Our listeners each sent us one of two things: either a custom card (of any design) or a real card with the name and types changed. The job for us hosts is to guess which is which, and you can play along!ย  Join Beacon of…