Beacon Of Creation Podcast

We discuss the use of color pair archetypes in Contenders and deep dive into two of them! Also we cover your fairy tale designs. Our challenge for next week: Define the GW archetype for Contenders and design cards for it. See http://www.planesculptors.net/set/contenders 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 talk about Eldraine, new boosters, and Brawl's future! Our challenge for next week: send in your best fairy tale 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

Main topic and design challenge fuse in this episode, covering many custom designs that would fit in M20! 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

With Core Set 2020 out in the wild, we dive into our design impressions of the set. At the end we cover your wild MH1 custom designs! 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 riff on Modern Horizons design space, designing cards that would fit into that set! Then we check out the results of the four color world design challenge. 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

Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com

Belly up to the table for a humongous episode packed with 25+ card evaluations. Both Adam and Shadow Host James Gover went deep on Bradley's 4-color world and came up with a ton of designs. Lots of great discussion about individual cards! Find the hosts 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 http://beaconofcreation.com

Brad shows his work on his four color, Vegas-y entertainment world! Find the hosts 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 http://beaconofcreation.com

Tim covers the updates to the latest version of his Contenders set, and Bradley and Adam give their opinions and ideas. Also we cover last week's "Single Sliver" design challenge, and there are some spicy ones! Find the hosts 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 http://beaconofcreation.com

Inspired by Modern Horizons, we cover the history of slivers and discuss a bunch of possible new slivers! Find the hosts on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see http://beaconofcreation.com

Part 3 of 3 of the Ignite the Beacon crossover! This week we bring on guests Michelle (@BalefireStrix of Loregoyfs), April (@CubeApril of Scryfall and... Cubes?) and Ryan (@RyanSainio of Hipsters of the Coast). We talk event-based set design, Scryfall, and much more. Find the hosts on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see http://beaconofcreation.com

Part 2 of 3 of the Ignite the Beacon crossover! This week we bring on guests Reuben Covington (of Remaking Magic and many custom sets), Carl Duzett (of Netropolis) and Trevor Cashmore (of Tesla). We talk playtesting, limited design, the Custom Magic Discord, and much more. Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com

Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com

Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com Design challenges due Monday, May 6th by 7pm. Top-Down challenge: Castmire's Buy-a-box promo using a mechanic that's not in the set. Bottom-up challenge: Design Castmire's dual land cycle.

Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com Design challenges due Monday, April 29th by 7pm. Top-Down challenge: Castmire's Buy-a-box promo using a mechanic that's not in the set. Bottom-up challenge: Design Castmire's dual land cycle.

Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @bradleyrose, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com Design challenges due Monday, April 22nd by 7pm. Top-Down challenge: A card draw spell that feels white and is not just a cantrip. Bottom-up challenge: Design a legendary headwear equipment.

Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @timfreilly and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com Design challenges due Monday, April 15th by 7pm. Top-Down challenge: Revise a Castmire Exemplar card. Bonus points if it fits into the set's motifs in an interesting way. Bottom-up challenge: Design a spell that shows transmutation magic without changing power/toughness or replacing the card the another.

Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @timfreilly, @bradleyrose and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com Design challenges due Monday, April 8th by 7pm. Top-Down challenge: Design Garruk's Axe. Bottom-up challenge: Design an uncommon planeswalker using the WAR template.

Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @timfreilly, @bradleyrose and @madolaf Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com Design challenges due Monday, April 1st by 7pm. Top-Down challenge: Design a Contender. Bottom-up challenge: Design a card with the word dumbwaiter in the name.  

Find us on Twitter @magicdesigncast, @timfreilly, @madolaf, and @inanimategames Email us! hosts@beaconofcreation.com Send submissions to: cards@beaconofcreation.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beaconofcreation/ For more notes and designs from this week's episodes see beaconofcreation.com Design challenges due Monday, March 25th by 7pm. Top-Down challenge: A door using the Visit mechanic. Bottom-up challenge: A card named Neverending Hallway. Bonus Challenge!: A cycle of cards showing love.