Beacon Of Creation Podcast

Our big wrap up episode for Design League 2!!! We brought everyone on: the winner platypeople, runner-up Ludos, and league commissioner Redbay. We get the behind the scenes on the big finals submissions and also some insight on how RB put it all together. We also get into a bit of challenge design for those looking to run their own events. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Tune into this post-playtest convo between MonoWhiteBorder and Juliet, breaking down MDub's new set. The theme is golden age of Hollywood, so expect spotlights, directors, extras, and more! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

A fun weekend draft turned into a conversation! Juliet ambushed Tim mid-draft with the recording bot and we talked through packs 2 and 3 and the first two games of the draft. Lots of individual card discussion and we even learn the story of Billygoats Gruff! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

We issued the A Gust of Wind challenge for August, and now it's time to review your submissions! There are a bunch of ways you found to have blue spells deal damage: gold cards, drawbacks, even damage-that-bounces. Another great ep full of great cards! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Kayiu and Tim crack open platypeople's pack for the "Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo" Finals challenge for the Design League! We saw LudosGD's entry earlier in the week, how will the two stack up? We've got bullies! Circles! Safes! and Triangles! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Tim and Kayiu are excited to crack open LudosGD's entry into the "Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo" challenge finals! This is both a card-by-card Unpacking as well as their judging conversation. Moon projections! Drones! Tourists! Colossal stuff! Baby animal people! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

The Design League is roaring towards its conclusion and we've got highlights from the tournament rounds! Round 2's Planeswalker vacations and Round 3's color-coordinated creature packs made for great cards. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

In Unpacking, we go through the cards in a pack without knowing anything beyond that pack. Through this lens, we try to guess themes, mechanics, flavor, and more! This time we're looking at Primivir and starting with a single mysterious image of an angular, abstract city scape. The set is by Myrmiredon. Planesculptors: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/primivir Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Worlds collide with community member Fblthp's League of Legends-themed MEGAset. We get the download on the shape of the Jumpstart packs and then get some flavor and cards for the Noxus faction. Set file: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/runeterra-jumpstart-noxus#cards Noxus Lore: https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/noxus/ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Tokens, Two-Headed Giant, and Draft collide with the "Two-ken Play At That Game" challenge! You all scoured Scryfall for the most obscure tokens and cooked up your coolest multiplayer cards! Tim and MDub go through all 18 of your submissions and pick their favorites. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Kayiu and Juliet bring on Queen Emily to talk about her latest completed project, Songs of Yisai!  Inspired by Jewish mythology and biblical sources, this set mixes artifacts, enchantments, and a WUBRG theme.  Songs of Yisai PlaneSculptors: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/songs-of-yisai Songs of Yisai Stories: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l4hgZTjI94G-dwVhhY3i5sY8MnvSe6kzCvnDJ38Fcp8/edit Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Commander Redbay has launched the fleet of League designers into the world of planet-scale sci-fi adventure! Tim and Juliet set the stage for this setting and then highlight cards from the recently completed Design League Season 2 Top 8. Experience Christmas in July via comparative fiction with Juliet's other show, I'll be Pod for Castmas: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/ Juliet has also been on other pods for the Moonshot Network https://moonshotpods.com/ Follow the league and join the design challenges on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Buggy big bugs! We asked for your 6/3 insects with some sort of design flaw. We got a swarm of submissions, so I brought on Hayley as a guest! The "bugs" in each card are each their own little puzzle and it's fun to dig into the rules. Next month's challenge asks for some unique tokens, so get your scryfall searches going. Find out more on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

This week Juliet brings on Middle Earth Horse Expert Westley to discuss all the horse cards of the new LOTR set! An episode sure to be a colt classic. Check out the full run of Shadowfacts: https://shadowfactspod.podbean.com/ and find Westley on Cohost: https://cohost.org/HorseArchivist Jump on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Jump into another world with a Lord of the Rings custom set made before the Wizards set! Bass walks us through the brainstorm and playtesting of his ideas for Middle Earth. If you like keywords and mechanics, this is the episode for you, as Bass tried a lot of big new mechanics and little tweaks and keywordings!! Check out Bass's mega blog post and learn even more about this set. Follow Bass on Twitter @Bass_Wakil and @bassimstory Bass's story podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-story-toolkit/id1132638400 His writing podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5C6z1SIN9m8stESI6UzvM9?si=RM3TISJ7TX6E5uweyHB6Ng And our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Full show notes at https://www.beaconofcreation.com

We've got custom Magic superstar Pipsqueak back on the pod this week to talk about her set Animus Vox. Space exploration, music, and contemplation set the mood for this great set. Check out the MSEverse page, especially the fiction: https://mseverse.miraheze.org/wiki/Animus_Vox_(set) Also mentioned in the ep is Pipsqueak's Lion's Eye Quotient: https://custommagiccodex.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/the-lions-eye-quotient/ Visit the MSE Discord: https://discord.gg/KakTcDcnK Or our discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Full show notes at https://www.beaconofcreation.com

May's challenge asked the community for cards using "modified" that had cosmetic flavor. We've got 16 great cards to talk about and Tim and MWB dive right in! Chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Full show notes at https://www.beaconofcreation.com

The second of our four custom Unpacking episodes, where we go card-by-card in a pack for a set we've never seen before! This time, Tim is joined by community member LudosGD. What will be unveiled when the curtain rises??  Chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Full Grand Gala card list: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/the-grand-gala

This week is the long-awaited spotlight on Seasons of War, the custom commander limited set! Creator Timespiraled joins the show to tell us everything they learned making it and what they enjoy about the final product! Chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Check out the cards in the set: https://msem-instigator.herokuapp.com/card?q=e%3Aswr Go deep with the design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LXCrKJ-QoP2beLdMyKnmNQBeDafC5_ab1UyMNObTCGs/edit

In Unpacking, we go one-by-one through cards in a pack. We learn what we can from just the cards in front of us; no set summary and no knowledge of the mechanics. It's a fun way to see cards with fresh eyes. This time Redbay joins Tim in going through a pack of Memories of the Silver City by Chartate101. We go in just seeing a picture of a green forest portal in a run-down city. Come along with us as we discover the set through the lens of a pack. Talk with us through our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh