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| "To The Nines" Challenge Review | 02 Oct 2024 | 01:07:18 | |
We're putting on our finest outfits and securing our monocles as we review the "To the Nines" challenge review. You all submitted equipment, but you weren't allowed to use the Equip ability! We've got scarabs, fish, crowns and collars this week and it's all going to be fun! More Juliet content at https://www.twitch.tv/moonshotnetwork Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Designing for IPs and Moxtober Hype! | 25 Sep 2024 | 00:47:18 | |
Kayiu and Juliet tackle what makes designing for an IP swing or miss, covering Portal: Three Kingdoms and Chikyu: Ruined Future. Along the way, we break down some bad card design habits, some -1/-1 counter mechanics, Dynasty Warriors, a general acclaim for decayed, and a quick introduction to what makes Moxtober great! Juliet & Riley's Three Kingdom Spectacular is on Oct 1st at https://www.twitch.tv/moonshotnetwork Kayiu's live set-design streams are Sundays at https://www.twitch.tv/kayiu102 Schwa's article on fan-sets: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CcsU5xtDLNSm2DWh4zZDY46gDuvZkHBh3beFj3qioPk/edit?usp=sharing Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Champion's Podium! League Wrap-Up w/Provocative and Brad | 18 Sep 2024 | 01:06:03 | |
Our last pod about Design League 3 is here! We've got both league champ Prov and runner-up Brad here to talk about their process, the planes, and their ideas for the future! Be sure to catch our previous two league pods for some helpful context on this one.
Recommendations Brad's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bradleyrose Prov recommends: watching soccer! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Eight Legs Challenge Review w/Squares that Cube | 11 Sep 2024 | 01:55:41 | |
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?? Squares that Cube feed: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2298320 StC Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0rM876ypRLwnF7rodNaUAZ StC's Pacific NW drafters Discord: https://discord.gg/eu4nthkkf5 Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Sunset Sacrifice! League Finals Entry from Provocative | 04 Sep 2024 | 01:19:19 | |
Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Provocative's entry, and you'll hear all about some new tokens, Rakdos planeswalkers, and why the sun is bad! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| I Wanna Rock! League Finals Entry from Bradley Rose | 28 Aug 2024 | 01:07:33 | |
Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Bradley Rose's entry, and you'll learn about it along with us. Super exciting! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Running an All-Magic Weekend | 21 Aug 2024 | 01:24:47 | |
Calming beach views, cooking for your friends, and all the Magic you could want! Tim and guest Shobi make the case for taking out a whole weekend with friends for playing Magic. Too much? Or not enough? They also go through all the cool drafts they did over the course of three days of Magic. Shobi's show in Portland: https://www.funhouselounge.com/burwesque/ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Spinning Templates! Tightening Rules Text | 14 Aug 2024 | 01:07:50 | |
Bloomburrow's rules change to "enters" has us hungry for more! Can we shorten "once a turn", "flicker", "end of turn", and more? Join our tour of rules text minutiae. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Following Signposts - Bloomburrow | 07 Aug 2024 | 01:40:16 | |
Bloomburrow is here! We've had a look at the archetypes, and it's time for us to break down the design of each of them. For that, we have our four categories:
This is less abuut how to pick the best cards to win games, and more about the impression these archetypes might make on players picking up the set. With these tools we can also improve how we design our own sets. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| 777 Jackpot Challenge Review | 31 Jul 2024 | 01:19:04 | |
This month's challenge is all about making a mana fixing card! Even better if we can get some heist flavor in there. From jewels to rads to chains we've got a pile of cards to dive into! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com Music by Dee Culp | |||
| Live Design - Our Other Half | 24 Jul 2024 | 00:58:07 | |
We're making good on June's "Halfway There" and designing cards to go with our favorite submissions from that challenge! Finding the right balance of flavor, deckbuilding, and explosive commander fun is a big challenge! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com Music by Dee Culp | |||
| Frog-et Me Not! Making a Splash in Bloomburrow | 17 Jul 2024 | 00:53:19 | |
Tim liked what he saw in Bloomburrow previews ordered up a frog burger with a side of flies and Juliet serves up the A-B-Cs of F-R-O-Gs! We talk a little Bloomburrow, dive deep on the history of frogs in Magic, then explore some design ideas for frogs in the future. Juliet's July/December Christmas pod: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Cool Cards from Design League! | 10 Jul 2024 | 01:08:05 | |
Our competition, the Design League, just finished its first half. Come listen to the great cards designed for this competition. Along the way you'll also get the POV of both a competitor and a judge for the league. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| "Halfway There" Challenge Review | 03 Jul 2024 | 01:18:06 | |
This month's challenge review takes on Partner With commanders. We've got a whole bunch of great submissions from Kithkin to Moby Dick! Lots of crazy flavor, technology, and even some mystery. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Lorwyn and Ravnica Collide in a New Pack | 26 Jun 2024 | 00:52:37 | |
We built a pack together and it came out very Lorwyn-y! Patrick and khord22 hop on the pod to tell Tim all about it. Listen in to learn about collaborating on Magic designs! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Ancient Kamigawa and Environment Design | 19 Jun 2024 | 01:12:58 | |
We bring the past into the present! Returning guest thesixthroc describes how they tried errata and custom cards to bring original Kamigawa to the present. Along the way we dive into designing for an audience, the cost of errata, highlighting hidden themes, and... Channel—Mutate?? thesixthroc's Kamigawa list: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/kamigawa_block_revisited Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Cascade Challenge Review | 12 Jun 2024 | 01:23:50 | |
We asked for your gold Cascade + Discover designs and you responded! A full seventeen submissions for this challenge, all inspiring fun ways to play with cards off the top. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Hat Trick! Random Hats with Random Legends | 05 Jun 2024 | 00:43:57 | |
Coming off fedoras on Faerie Detectives and Stetsons on Homarids, Redbay cooked up a "hats for legends" generator! He and MonoWhiteBorder grab some hats, put them on some fan favorites, and do some live design. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| All About Eldrazi | 29 May 2024 | 00:59:00 | |
Modern Horizons 3 is bringing back the broods and titans, so it's time to venture back into the Blind Eternities! The Eldrazi are a super-cool creature type that has gotten some, but not a ton, of exploration over the years. We break down all the lessons learned so far, then dive into some "character pie" between the titans. As a wrap up we try to assign a variety of keywords to different titans. Prepared for your reality to be warped! JB's games and add-ons: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/4841/at-the-table-games?keyword=At%20the%20table%20games Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| How to Win Design League | 22 May 2024 | 00:42:34 | |
Design League starts back up May 26th, and to get you ready we've got League Emperor Redbay and longtime judges Juliet and Tim. They talk through the process, their judging styles, and even live design and judge a card on air! The challenge we revisit: https://www.beaconofcreation.com/2023/06/21/design-league-season-2-qualifier-5-results/ See Juliet on the Moonshot Moongarita charity drive: https://twitter.com/MoonshotPods/status/1792638421816553724 Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Design Crossover - Midnight Suns | 15 May 2024 | 01:09:14 | |
Heat up your cauldron and practice your hexes because we're going goth! We're looking at the videogame Midnight Suns and seeing what we can carry back into Magic. This card-based strategy game is by the same studio as the Civilzation and X-Com games, so it's coming from a different starting point. Tim and Peter talk through the gameplay and extrapolate where Magic could take those ideas. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Solar Eclipse Challenge Review | 08 May 2024 | 01:21:49 | |
We're taking your submissions one day (and night) at a time! We asked for your common day/nightbound cards and we got a bumper crop! Hitting that common rarity on a double face card is a narrow target, ESPECIALLY for our listeners who love to pack innovation into each card. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Following Signposts - Thunder Junction Archetype Uncommons pt 2 | 01 May 2024 | 01:05:15 | |
Time to bring the cows home! We've got the second half of our new episode format, where we check out all the draft archetypes of a set. This is focused on the gold cards and on Wizard's description of the pairs. Our categories are:
Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Following Signposts - Thunder Junction Archetype Uncommons pt 1 | 24 Apr 2024 | 01:03:12 | |
New set! New mechanics! New episode format??? We kick the tires on a new way to break down arcuns, those gold cards we get every set that help define draft. Rather than going for power rankings or in-depth numbers on a whole set, we're trying to model how people see these cards for the first time. To do that, we've got four categories:
This was such a fun way to break down cards that we went DEEP. Originally one ep, we broke this into two! Look forward to more next week! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Survey of Extra Turns Cards | 17 Apr 2024 | 00:59:30 | |
This week we are Beacon of Tomorrows, a podcast about time! We look over all the ways Magic has to take extra turns and try to brainstorm some new directions. From Alpha to Dr Who there are many ways to keep it going. Moonshot Patreon Pledge Drive: https://www.patreon.com/moonshotnetwork Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Elder Dragon Challenge Review | 10 Apr 2024 | 01:03:29 | |
March's challenge was all about designing new twists on the elder dragons! Nicol and family, Tarkir dragons, Strixhaven, and a few other twists. Guest Cole AKA EclipseMeteor hops in to gush about all these sweet designs! Cole's new pod: https://twitter.com/HBVC_MTG Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Exciting! Mechanics Draft - First Ten Years | 03 Apr 2024 | 00:50:37 | |
Super fun ep!!! We strategize, agonize, and finally pick mechanics from Magic's past, one at a time, snake drafted between Tim, Gabe, and Peter! What starts as a simple exercise turns into a thrilling competition. Everything from the pre-Modern era of Magic is on the table except for those pesky evergreen keywords. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes: https://beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Unpacking Settling Idyll | 27 Mar 2024 | 01:13:41 | |
This week we are looking at the custom set Settling Idyll by Provocative! As usual with Unpacking, we know next to nothing going in. We only know a single image: a heroic mech guarding a town. Settling Idyll PS: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/settling-idyll Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation | |||
| Unpacking the Plundering of Guemhill w/Dodger | 20 Mar 2024 | 01:02:20 | |
The Beacon community finished a second You Make the Pack, where we build a 15 card pack together. This week Kayiu brings on guest Dodger to see how we did! Hear about the new mechanics, get Dodger's insight, and maybe even design a bonus card for the pack at the end. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation
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| Set Skeleton Megaton News! | 13 Mar 2024 | 00:53:23 | |
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. Design League champ platypeople and new guest Gabe Lincoln help Tim break down all the cool details of the article. Maro article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/nuts-and-bolts-16-play-boosters Gabe's Twitter: https://twitter.com/gabelincoln0 Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation | |||
| Leap Year Challenge Review | 06 Mar 2024 | 01:11:07 | |
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: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation | |||
| MORE Baldur's Gate 3 Re-Designs! | 28 Feb 2024 | 00:56:23 | |
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 to match them to their personalities in the videogame. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation | |||
| Design Rush - Guildpact | 21 Feb 2024 | 00:50:13 | |
Two more contestants, three more guilds... it's the return of Ravnica Design Rush! What cards can be created in mere minutes? Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation | |||
| Unpacking Murders at Karlov Manor! | 15 Feb 2024 | 01:23:14 | |
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! What do we learn from just 14 cards? This ep was edited by kayiu!!! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation | |||
| Janu-Faerie Challenge Review | 07 Feb 2024 | 01:09:54 | |
This week we review your Faerie cards that mix in digital and other special mechanics! --- Legion's links: PS: https://www.planesculptors.net/user/legion Legion's Judgment Blog: https://legionsjudgment.wordpress.com/ Discord: legion_of_four Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@The_Legion_Of_Four --- Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation | |||
| Design Rush - Ravnica | 31 Jan 2024 | 00:38:03 | |
The new season of Design Rush starts here! 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! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation | |||
| Moxtober Cube - A Lore-Blasted a Set in Just a Month! | 24 Jan 2024 | 01:09:49 | |
Moxtober is about designing a card a day for a month. But what if you designed a whole set? A team of five from the MSE Discord made that happen! We've got three of them, Cool Beens, crime?, and kayiu, on this week's episode. We also get a LOT about the flavor and setting of this cube! Moxtober 2023 Cube: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/moxtober-cube-2023 MSE Discord: https://discord.gg/4Kf2uWswMj Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Baldur's Gate 3 Companions Re-Designed! | 17 Jan 2024 | 01:31:06 | |
Now that we've played through the amazing Baldur's Gate 3, we've got opinions on the designs from Battle for Baldur's Gate! Gaby and Tim break down each of the vidoegame's six companions, their existing card, their personality, and design something new for them! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Why Does Simic Struggle in Limited? | 10 Jan 2024 | 01:06:47 | |
Spurred by the recent discussion of Blue-Green's years-long limited slump, Tim and Peter dive into more than a dozen UG signpost uncommons. Can we learn about how to make better UG cards by finding patterns in the last few years? Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mtg_ds/status/1730414469644189748 Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Deux-cember Challenge Review | 03 Jan 2024 | 01:07:07 | |
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! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Art of the Year 2023 w/DrChillbrain | 27 Dec 2023 | 01:12:10 | |
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: https://imgur.com/a/aIaZOXp --- Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| You Made the Pack! Cooperative Card Design | 20 Dec 2023 | 00:59:22 | |
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! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Batman Villains w/Fblthp | 13 Dec 2023 | 00:52:15 | |
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. Fblthp's Gotham Villains: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/gotham-halloween Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Nouveau-mber Challenge Review | 06 Dec 2023 | 01:14:09 | |
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! Check out the cards of Revolution: https://revolution-manifesto.herokuapp.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Making it Jurassic w/Lyght The PhiRexian | 29 Nov 2023 | 01:11:52 | |
Hold on to your butts! We're recapping our favorite new Universes Beyond Jurassic Park cards, then leaping claws-first into designing some new cards of our own! To help us, our guest Lyght learned to use their raptor claws to work door handle and busted in! Lyght's Linktree - https://linktr.ee/LyghtThePhiRexian Battle of Big Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7kbVvpOGdQ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Five Nights at Freddy's Custom Commander w/Corv! | 22 Nov 2023 | 00:41:13 | |
See if your commander pod can survive five nights with these cards! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Dr Who Commander Cards w/Bass | 15 Nov 2023 | 01:30:08 | |
Dive into Bass's favorite cards from the new Dr Who set! Don't worry if you don't know the show, you'll get filled in on all sorts of flavor. Plus a nice helping of weird alien guys. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Oct-faux-ber Challenge Review | 08 Nov 2023 | 01:19:21 | |
One of our coolest Design Challenges ever! We asked you to take the rules box of an existing card and spin it into a new one without changing more than a single word. The submissions are amazing! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com | |||
| Moxtober - Guess the Prompt w/Bradley Rose | 01 Nov 2023 | 01:03:28 | |
Moxtober is the big yearly Magic design event in the custom community! We've got the creator of Moxtober on the pod this week. We talk about where this year's prompts came from, then we play a game where we review some cards and try to guess which prompt goes with which card! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Brad's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bradleyrose Brad's bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/specialbeamcannon.bsky.social Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||
| Live Design - Make it Spooky! | 25 Oct 2023 | 01:05:23 | |
We're live designing this week! Start with an existing card and some directions, and punch that card up! We've got vampires, obsession, booster packs, Grozoth, skeletons, and playtest cards! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp | |||