• You Are What You Eat Challenge Review

    You Are What You Eat Challenge Review

    Winter hibernation is over and we’re hungry! Our challenge this month was to design cards with cards with devour, emerge, or exploit, so keep those snacks coming!

  • Retro Formats – Rise of the Eldrazi

    Retro Formats – Rise of the Eldrazi

    They don’t make formats like they used to… but should they?! Join guest Tom on a tour through the famous Rise of the Eldrazi format. Along the way we’ll also talk about the parallels between ROE and a certain current draft format.

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
  • The Beast Unleashed! Iterating a Set Mechanic

    The Beast Unleashed! Iterating a Set Mechanic

    Would you like to listen to two people say the word “Beast” about two hundred times each? We have the episode for you.

  • 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!!

  • Design Rush – Ravnica

    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!

  • Moxtober Cube 2023! A Lore-Blasted Set

    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!

  • 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!

  • Why Does Simic Struggle in Limited?

    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?

  • Deux-cember Challenge Review

    Deux-cember Challenge Review

    Another month, another crazy design challenge! This month was all about finding ways to break the color pie within a single color’s effects. We’ve got multiple white time walks, black Izzet cards, blue land destruction and more!

  • Art of the Year 2023 w/DrChillbrain

    Art of the Year 2023 w/DrChillbrain

    Kayiu and guest DrChillbrain take a break from design talk to dive into their favorite card art of the year and what makes them special! Gallery with all the picks from the ep: — Join our Discord:  Recaps and card images at: Music is “Hey,…

  • You Made the Pack! Cooperative Card Design

    You Made the Pack! Cooperative Card Design

    You Make the Pack was a cooperative event where we designed a pack of cards for an unknown set, one card at a time. It was super fun, and Redbay is on this episode to talk all about it! 

  • Batman Villains w/Fblthp

    Batman Villains w/Fblthp

    We’ve got prolific designer Fblthp on the pod again, this time to talk about some fun Gotham villains! From big names like Joker and Harley to funny ones like Eraser, join us for a flavor and mechanic dive into these Moxtober creations.

  • Redbay Custom Cube

    Redbay Custom Cube

    This was the inaugural/first playtest Draft with the Redbay Custom Cube (RCC), which can be found >> here <<. A little bit of background– My primary mode of playing Magic: The Gathering at current (and for the last 10ish years) is cube, whether it’s my traditional cube, my randomly-generated-and-subsequently-stickered-cube, our proxied rendition of Andy Mangold’s…

  • Nouveau-mber Challenge Review

    Nouveau-mber Challenge Review

    We’re winding down on 2023 and asked you for your best cards using this year’s mechanics! We got battles, cybermans, Marvel characters (??) and a Wurmhole. Be sure to tune in!