Beacon Of Creation Podcast

Our Build a Guild challenge got so big we filled almost a month! We review the last crop of submissions. I hope you enjoy! MonoWhiteBorder - GW - Exile Matters James Gover - UG - untap ramp and syncs Perryk - BG - 5 Color Ramp Brad - UR - "Put Cards on the Bottom of your Library" Wobbles - RW - Lands Fall Apart Kayiu - UG - Enchantments & +1/+1 Counters Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

The dark middle chapter of our Build a Guild challenge! We got so many we made three eps of it. This ep has: Justnigel - RW Nostalgic Hero Leem - RG - Green Red Dragons. Romacchino13 - UB - Return to Hand And Discard Craftedlavaistrue - UB - saboteur matters C2H6 - RB - Cheap (Low MV) Reanimation Bonus Kayiu - BR - Multiple Activated Abilities Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

Our Build a Guild challenge, full of your super sweet archetype ideas, gets reviewed! We got so many we're splitting it into three eps. This ep has: MBTree - BG - Deathtouch + Morbid Juliet - RW - “1 Damage” Matters Larcent - UB - Artifact Scavengers Ian - WU - Aura Value Dillon  BW  "not quite there" legend buff Bonus Kayiu   UW Untaps-Outside-Of-Untap-Step! Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

With Adam out, MonoWhiteBorder AKA Peter jumps on to Make it More Magical!  Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

Upshift or downshift? We play a game where we start with a card, then either upshift or downshift it to a new rarity! Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

We review an amazing SIXTEEN submissions to our "Friends and Family" challenge. We asked for hybrid Red/White rares and got more submissions than there are existing cards! Adam saves the best for last and Tim gets into a tribal card. Check out our "Build a Guild" challenge too, where you combine multiple gold cards across Magic history to form a new archetype. Details in the episode! Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

We're tackling "salty" Commander cards this week! Finding usable inspiration from some of the most oppressive cards around. A tough tasks makes for a long episode! Cards discussed: Stasis Jokulhaups Narset, Parter of Veils The Tabernacle of Pendrell Vale Extra turns cards Rhystic Study Narset, Enlightened Master Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

Castmire is the spooky, spiraling mansion set that you can help develop! We finished up our 8th milestone (and Moxtober), so now it's time to test. There's a fun new way to track our testing and we're hyped to see all the cards in play. Anything related to testing and Castmire can be found on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We review your sweet Black/Green Pumpkin Patch cards! You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

It's happening!! The new Mechanical Color Pie article is out, and we're all eager to learn as much as we can! Adam and Tim take turns quizzing each other, and you can play along. Mechanical Color Pie 2021 Changes | MAGIC: THE GATHERING Reddit summary of changes article You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

Jeremy Geist is joining Wizards, and has left us a big challenge: Five Design Challenges for GDS4 In this ep we attempt part one of the challenge, designing seven cards to start as the seed of a limited archetype. You know Adam is taking it seriously when you hear his keyboard thunder! You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

We bring MonoWhiteBorder back on to review your submissions for the Good Bones Morph/Visit commander! Tons of sweet (Ice Age??) cards and clever new cards! You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Music by Dee Culp and fesliyanstudios.com And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

We review your design submissions for our Midnight Hunt challenge! These are all sweet cards that would fit in the new Innistrad set! You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

Mono-White aficionado MonoWhiteBorder joins us to brew a Commander precon! New Design Challenge: Submit one existing card and design one new card that fits with Good Bones: "Good Bones" Hauzer 1W Legendary Creature - Skeleton You can't cast blue, black, red, or green spells. Doors you control have "T: Add W, U, B, R, or G." If a creature you control would die, you may turn it face down instead. It's a colorless Door land with "T: Add C". Visit W 1/1 You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

Lately, Adam's been playing Shandalar, the mid-90s RPG where you collect Magic cards to play against the AI. Let's dive into what makes this game still work today. G-Host Juliet also joins to share her knowledge. You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast

Adam and Tim have a convo about the design of all these sweet new Innistrad cards!  You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast

We talk with Perry K about his focus channel and his experience working on Castmire! You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire

We play a round of Make it More Magical, where we give each other an existing card and instructions on how to make it more... massive? Orzhov? Helpful? Listen and find out! You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast

Tim went to a weekend-long Magic vacation with friends, and shares all the cool formats they played! In the episode: Mini Masters (with house rules!) Gold Cube 10-4 Cube Mega Team Sealed RTR vs Theros Power Cube Tribal Commander Cube You can chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast

Want to get caught up on Castmire? Adam does too! Now that he's back on the show, he's ready to go deep on the status of Castmire. Along the way we review the set's mechanics and what those mechanics imply about the rest of the construction of the set. Some basic changes to how we add cards to Castmire are also talked about: more and faster focus channels and decoupling Castmire dev from twitter polls. Share your designs & jump into playtesting on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh And catch us on Twitter: @magicdesigncast & @createcastmire