Beacon Of Creation Podcast

We've learned a lot developing the Castmire custom set with the community, and in this episode we delve into our recent breakthrough: focus channels. With a good portion of Castmire fleshed out, we tasked a group of designers with producing the best four cards they could, together. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh New music from http://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com

Be our guest for this design challenge episode! Hear about all the fun furniture cards submitted by listeners. Design Challenge (Due Monday 6PT): DC54 - "Your Humble Teapot" - Design a legendary artifact creature a la the named items and furnishings from Beauty and the Beast. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh New music from http://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com

We dive in on our Cluedo Suspects challenge submissions, including four new submitters! Design Challenge (Due Monday 6PT): DC54 - "Your Humble Teapot" - Design a legendary artifact creature a la the named items and furnishings from Beauty and the Beast. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh New music from http://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com

Learn about our winning color pair pitches and our new way to collaborate on these color pairs, Focus Channels. Challenge Reminder (Due Monday 6PT): DC 53 - "Cluedo Suspect" - Design a creature in an uncommon monocolor legendary creature cycle. Cluedo, aka Clue, is a board game and movie where every aristocratic character is a suspect. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh New music from http://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com

We've got the first results from the Banquet, our suggestion box-like way to pitch assorted ideas about Castmire! Next Week's Challenge: DC 53 - "Cluedo Suspect" - Design a creature in an uncommon monocolor legendary creature cycle. Cluedo, aka Clue, is a board game and movie where every aristocratic character is a suspect. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh New music from http://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com

Ten new versions of Shivan Dragon with the custom magic podcasting godfather, Reuben Covington! Follow @magicdesigncast account and join us at https://discord.gg/b7FDjHw

Dive into Moxtober, the hot new craze sweeping custom magic design! Kayiu102's youtube channel, with daily Moxtober vids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3bBSvBqn3OwxXNzO9YCLQ Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh Have quick ideas for Castmire? Send them in for the Banquet: https://forms.gle/nndHVeVSozmjZZza6

Discussing feedback from the Castmire playtest results from Milestone 4 and pitches for color pairs and other packages going into Milestone 5. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh Have ideas for Castmire? Send them in for the Banquet: https://forms.gle/nndHVeVSozmjZZza6 New Music! Visit http://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com

Hot off the Banquet announcement and following some great playtesting, we review submissions for our Cornerstone challenge. These cards find inspiration from gaps in Castmirelimited decks. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh Have ideas for Castmire? Send them in for the Banquet: https://forms.gle/nndHVeVSozmjZZza6 New Music! Visit http://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com

Castmire Banquet is our fun new way of allow you to submit your ideas and feedback, and have it shared with the community! We are collecting everything you send in and will serve it up for everyone to feast on!  Form for direct submission: https://forms.gle/nndHVeVSozmjZZza6 Join the discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Twitter updates @CreateCastmire New Music! Visit http://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com

Juliet joins Bradley & Tim to discuss the limitations, challenges, and design philosophy of designing for the Jumpstart format. Follow @magicdesigncast account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We review your Castmire Jumpstart pack submissions as we begin the Milestone 4 playtesting phase for Castmire! Follow @magicdesigncast account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Ten new versions of Balance with guest host Dillon Brown aka @EctoCoolerRanch ! Follow @magicdesigncast account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We talk about the potential behind all our reprint suggestions for Castmire. Milestone 4 is only a week away! Next Week's Challenge: DC50 "Jumpstart for Joy" - Design a Jumpstart-sized pack of Castmire cards. You can include up to two new reprints and two new designs in your submissions. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We are observing the suspects and double-checking alibi's for this week's challenge! Lots of great detective and discovery cards in this episode! Next Week's Challenge: DC 49 - "All the Cards That're Fit to (re)Print" - Submit a card in Magic that would be interesting or fun as a reprint in Castmire. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

This week we're reviewing our Housecleaning challenge submissions. It's time to fix all the little problems with Castmire! Every room will be sparkling by the time you finish listening. Next Week's Challenge: DC 48 - "Who Could Have Done This" - Design a flavorful or trope-y Murder Mystery card, which depicts neither the act of murder nor the murderer as the sole subject of the card. The main criteria of the challenge is the connection between the mechanics and the ability for the reader to recognize something familiar in the story of the card, even without knowing Castmire specifically. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We've got another dozen design submissions to discuss this week, this time centered around the Green White theme of a group of creatures with different types! Next Week's Challenge: DC 47 - “Housecleaning” - Suggest a change to a card or set of cards in the Castmire set file. This is a change to clean up name, creature type, size, or other things that are out of date or out of sync. Or perhaps some flavor is off, or there are too many cards of a certain mana cost or effect. Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Ten new versions of Raise Dead with guest host Jay Zeffren aka @Zefferal ! Follow @magicdesigncast account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We excited to talk about the dozen submissions we got for our WU Equipment challenge! Next Week's Challenge: DC46 - "Of Mice and Menagerie" -Design a Green or White card that fits especially well in a GW Menagerie deck, and less well outside of that. For this challenge we aren't looking for the typical "uncommon signpost gold card". The current menagerie ability is "Whenever ~ attacks, if there are five or more different subtypes among creatures you control, [some effect]." Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Catch up on Visit in Castmire, then listen to our huge variety of new RG Visit submissions! Next Week's Challenge: DC45 - "Inspector’s Gadget" - Design a White or Blue card that fits especially well in a WU Equipment deck, and less well outside of that. For this challenge we aren't looking for the typical "uncommon signpost gold card". Follow @magicdesigncast and @createcastmire accounts and join us at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh