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Witching Hour Challenge Review, part 2
The final howls and cries of All Hallow’s Eve still ring out in our Witching Hour challenge! What makes for a cool Warlock support card? Can a sorcery be a lord? How do you redeem one of the weakest cards from The Dark? Can you pass the Timtober challenge? Catch the mega stream and Juliet’s…
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Witching Hour Challenge Review, part 1
Spooky season just ended… but out from the shadows jump almost a dozen great warlock submissions! Our listeners are balancing warlock flavor against “lord” mechanics.
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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Year of Mechanics + Moxtober Combo! Live Design w/rexxer3
We’ve got three cards to design this week! We pick back up with rexxer3 on their “Year of Mechanics” project, which has official stretched past a whole year due to how many mechanics Magic has! One card per mechanic, and this month there is a special twist. Each mechanic is paired with one of our…
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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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Role Call w/Pat
Pat joins Juliet for a role of a lifetime, rolling to design cards that in turn create new custom Role Aura tokens! Lookout for some spicy red cards, while being careful that your Serpent Warriors don’t Betray you. Do these cards have that certain Je Ne Sais Quoi? Catch Juliet’s new show about Paper Mario…
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Love Song of Day and Night
Juliet and Khord celebrate Carly Rae Jepsen’s new album by looking back on magic’s use of Night and Day, from its first inception of art through the surprises of jelly doughnuts all the way to a midnight hunt before arriving at the Echoverse of Reality Fracture. Then, they turn the tables with a new mechanic…
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Sup-tember Challenge Review, part 2
We challenged you to make food that speaks to a setting! You might say these submissions are packed with flavor!
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Sup-tember Challenge Review
This week we’re talking about your flavor-blasted food cards! Tell us about your setting through the lens of its edibles. Food themes can be hard to make work in limited, but many of our submitters aimed for the bonus points here and gave us cool uncommons. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Topics and Tidbits Submissions…
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Talkin’ Tolkien! Jump-starting Hobbit Precon Design
Host Juliet and Guest Leo have a grand discussion of the cards from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets, what new players can learn just from a pack of cards, how to design a Jumpstart set that’s accessible, whether Blue is the hardest color, how you name a horse’s color, and how you…
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Talkin’ Tokens! The Highs and Lows of Token Design
With the new Empower Jace mechanic from Reality Fracture, we’ve got tokens on the mind! From format-defining tokens to one-off nostalgia cards, we dive deep into the world of tokens. Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Topics and Tidbits
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Aug-erload Challenge Review, part 2
Our challenge review block comes to a close with some wild text-changing effects! Ogre-load, Servos, Carbo-load, and maybe the hardest to track card we’ve ever reviewed (in a fun way)! Scryfall gallery of cards mentioned Submissions Juliet Khord Pat JamesDaltonBell WUBRG_Nich PlayersGrade justnigel Xena https://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/list-of-pronouns.html kuyashiiPlays Mini Larcent rexxer3 Topics and Tidbits
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Aug-erload Challenge Review, part 1
Summer challenge time continues! We’ve got a whole new set of challenges and cards to review. Text changing effects can be quite tricky and unusual, so it takes a lot of unpacking to get to the root of each of them.
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Incarnation Challenge Review, part 3
Incarnations embody the feeling of an “exciting cycle”. Tune in for our first “reverse challenge” where our member Xena challenges Juliet!