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Favorite Flavor – Skeletons
Juliet and Mdub dig up the bones of Magic’s Skeletons—from the ever-imitated Drudge Skeletons, to Skeletons that are Swamps, to modern Demilichs, not forgetting a number of cards that are clearly Skeletons in all but name.
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Following Signposts – Duskmourn
We’re back again with a deep dive on the uncommon gold cards of the newest set! We’re honing our instincts on the design of these types of cards, and talk about how to apply it to our own designs. Join Beacon of Creation’s Discord: Show Notes:
Card of the Day
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Designed By Tim Reilly
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!
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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…
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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??
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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…
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Set Skeleton Megaton News!
Mark Rosewater dropped a huge design article about Play Booster set skeletons this week! Skeletons are the outline of a Magic set, so we had to convene a pod to dissect all this new info.
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Leap Year Challenge Review
Jump in to these great submissions… or LOSE THE GAME! We’ve got 13 great designs for our February challenge, which asked people to create cards with the text “lose the game”. Join our Discord: Recaps and card images at: YouTube videos:
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MORE Baldur’s Gate 3 Re-Designs!
We’ve got Gaby back on the pod for more live designing! You don’t need to know anything about the game to listen… we cover what you need! We take a look at the cards for Halsin, Minthara, and Jaheira from the Magic set and give each a facelift.
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Design Rush – Guildpact
Two more contestants, three more guilds… it’s the return of Ravnica Design Rush! What cards can be created in mere minutes?
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Unpacking Murders at Karlov Manor!
Unpacking is a segment where we go totally blind into a pack and just break down the cards we see, as we see them. Usually we do this with older or custom sets, but Kayiu had the great idea of going blind into the new Murders at Karlov Manor set!
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Janu-Faerie Challenge Review
This week we review your Faerie cards that mix in digital and other special mechanics!
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Design Rush – Ravnica
Juliet ambushes Kayiu and Tim with a quick-on-your-feet card design showcase of the guilds of Ravnica (that’s Ravnica, not Guilds of Ravnica). Play along at home!
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Moxtober Cube 2023! A Lore-Blasted Set
Moxtober is about designing cards every day. A team of five from the MSE server expanded this into designing enough for a 360 card cube! They also crafted a ton of lore around the set, too!
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Baldur’s Gate 3 Companions Re-Designed!
Gaby and Tim break down each of the vidoegame’s six companions, their existing card, their personality, and design something new for them!
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Why Does Simic Struggle in Limited?
Simic has been consistently a low-finisher in draft over the last few years. Can we learn some lessons why?