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Objection Challenge Review, Part 1
You won’t hear me objecting to so many design submissions, but you WILL hear all about the first half of our cards with the Objection mechanic! Keywords, ability words, and flavor, this challenge is all about defining “Objection!”
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You Make the Pack, But Like, Right Now!
We’ve told you about You Make the Pack, now it’s time to do it!! We’ve got some live design this week, making submissions for the YMTP event.
Card of the Day
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Designed By Tim ReillyMeant 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!
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Favorite Flavor – Final Fantasy XII w/Brendan McLeod
Juliet and game designer Brendan McLeod dispel Ondore’s lies as they talk about Final Fantasy XII’s sparse appearances in the canon “Magic: The Gathering–FINAL FANTASY”, and set out to make a jeskai Commander deck with all new designs for the game’s…
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Objection Challenge Review, Part 2
Our packed court of Objection! submissions wraps up this week with another packed ep full of great cards! This wide open challenge asked submitters to design a mechanic called “Objection” and we got SO MANY versions.
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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!!
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You Make the Pack, But Like, Right Now!
We’ve told you about You Make the Pack, now it’s time to do it!! We’ve got some live design this week, making submissions for the YMTP event.
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Create a Custom Set in a Month!
How do you make your own set in a month? The power of friendship! Beacon regular Brad (aka Redbay) breaks down the schedule he and Peter (MonoWhiteBorder) used to finish and release an entire set in a month. There’s a TON of great tips for making sets…
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Following Signposts – Edge of Eternities
Signpost gold cards are a great way to teach your drafters what archetypes and decks can be drafted in limited. By learning from retail Wizards sets, we can improve our design skills and make more fun sets ourselves.
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Ju-Lie Challenge Review
Tapping is core to Magic and it’s about time we did a Design Challenge all about it! This month you sent us all your cards that tap lots of creatures, and as an extra challenge we said to do it without blue!
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Star-Crossed Lovers of New Capenna
A little bit of romance, a dash of action, some new mechanics, and even a speedy bunch of card crafting. This episode has it all! The pitch fuses Capenna’s angels and demons world with families, weddings, and duels of honor.
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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!…
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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…
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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…
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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.