Beacon Of Creation Podcast

We discuss all the hot topics from Castmire's relaunch and review entries for the first three design challenges! 3:54 Castmire Hot Topics 17:51 DC1 - "Common Sense" Discussion 35:57 DC2 - "Uncommon Goods" Discussion 56:05 DC3 - "Rare Character" Discussion 1:19:02 New Design Challenges: DC4 - "Where Am I?" - Make a card with the flavor of the player investigating where they are. DC5 - "Who is That?" - Make a card that uses an unusual creature type. DC6 - "What is This?" - Make a card with the flavor of an improvised or discovered spell or piece of equipment. Follow the new @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Castmire, the custom set born along with Beacon of Creation, returns! We invite Trevor Cashmore, the number one Castmire fan, on the podcast to talk about all the sweet new stuff planned for the set's relaunch! DC1: "Common Sense" - Make a common card that could show up on Castmire, but not other plane in Magic. DC2: "Uncommon Goods" - Make an uncommon artifact, enchantment, or land that ties into the "interplanar menagerie" flavor of Castmire. DC3: "Rare Character" - Make a rare creature, either native to Castmire or left behind from one of the portals. Follow the new @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Tim's Contenders set had an update recently and we cover the changes! Next week's challenge: GET HYPE for next week's 100th episode! Find us  @magicdesigncast or beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Brad shares some questions from the process of making a core set for the National Game Design Month. Then we review some bonus Costumes and the Soul of X challenge. Next week's challenge: Design a card named "Dwarven ________" Find us  @magicdesigncast or beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Three more days of Moxtober custom designs, plus Costumes for Brad's Halloween Cube! These costumes are super sweet special cards that are drafted along with the cube but you wear rather than playing them in your deck. Find us  @magicdesigncast or beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Our Moxtober and Halloween plans had to be postponed for a week, so Gaby joins Tim for an episode discussing cubes and cube picks. Think of this as a bonus episode that we're sneaking into regular numbering. Like how Zelda 2 was a crazy side scroller and then they went back to normal after. Find us  @magicdesigncast or beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We review the fourth full week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twitter, post them on Discord, or send them to cards@beaconofcreation.com ! Find us  @magicdesigncast or beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We review the third thrilling week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twitter, post them on Discord, or send them to cards@beaconofcreation.com ! Find us  @magicdesigncast or beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We review the second exciting week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twitter, post them on Discord, or send them to cards@beaconofcreation.com ! Find us  @magicdesigncast or beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We review the first week of Moxtober designs. Moxtober is a month of designing Magic cards based off of the prompts from inktober.com If you design your own Moxtober cards, tag them on twitter, post them on Discord, or send them to cards@beaconofcreation.com ! Find us  @magicdesigncast or beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Learn about the unique aspects to Bradley's Halloween Cube! This spooky set twists things a little beyond the usual Innistrad cube. Our challenge for next week: Design a costume piece. You'll have to listen to the episode to learn what that means! Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Find us  @magicdesigncast or beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We combine our and your Eldraine card ideas for this all-design challenge episode. Covering new ways to use Adventure, Adamant, equipment, and more! Our challenge for next week: Design a colored artifact that couldn't be an enchantment (and isn't an equipment). Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Inspired by last week's talk of old cards in the Estate Sale Cube, the hosts select and discuss a variety of old card designs that have bad aspects to them. Then we discuss the retro card design challenge. Our challenge for next week: Design a card that mechanically fits in Eldraine. Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com or our Discord discord.gg/t88Vpwh

A bonus weekend episode featuring a crack-a-pack of Estate Sale Cube. Special guest Alchemyprime hops in to help give us a fresh perspective. Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @Alchemyprime, @timfreilly and @madolaf For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com

This jumbo-sized episode is priced to move! Dive into Adam's design philosophies behind Estate Sale Cube and follow us into a "crack a pack" from the set. We also talk through our mix-and-match design challenge and some exile cards from listener Luke. Our challenge for next week: Design an over-costed card that would fit in a set from around 1997. Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com

A whole variety of ideas and projects discussed in this episode! Estate Sale Cube, 2HG Conspiracy, Halloween Cube, Seven Wonders draft, Revisions Cube, Innistrad, and more! We also talk bioscientists and Ryan Sainio's Retelling mechanic. Our challenge for next week: In the spirit of our grab bag episode, give us a card that combines two existing abilities into one card. Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com

The team behind Alch Plays Games jumps joins us for an episode on all the crazy Magic fun we had at MFLV! Our challenge for next week: Design a shapeshifter or bioscientist card. Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com

All energy in this (kinda?) Adam-less episode! We cover the state of Energy design, offer our mechanical ideas, then review a bunch of Energy-themed Commander cards! Our challenge for next week: Create a shapeshifter or bioscientist card. Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com

This week we cover new designs for all four Commander 2019 decks!  Our challenge for next week: Create an Energy Commander or cards that would fit in an Energy-themed deck! Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com

We discuss two more Contenders archetypes and discuss your submissions for the Green-White archetype! Our challenge for next week: Create a card that would fit in one of the Commander 2019 decks! Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com