Beacon Of Creation Podcast

Spurred by the recent discussion of Blue-Green's years-long limited slump, Tim and Peter dive into more than a dozen UG signpost uncommons. Can we learn about how to make better UG cards by finding patterns in the last few years? Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/mtg_ds/status/1730414469644189748 Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

Another month, another crazy design challenge! This month was all about finding ways to break the color pie within a single color's effects. We've got multiple white time walks, black Izzet cards, blue land destruction and more! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@BeaconofCreation Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

Kayiu and guest DrChillbrain take a break from design talk to dive into their favorite card art of the year and what makes them special! Gallery with all the picks from the ep: https://imgur.com/a/aIaZOXp --- Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

You Make the Pack was a cooperative event where we designed a pack of cards for an unknown set, one card at a time. It was super fun, and Redbay is on this episode to talk all about it!  Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

We've got prolific designer Fblthp on the pod again, this time to talk about some fun Gotham villains! From big names like Joker and Harley to funny ones like Eraser, join us for a flavor and mechanic dive into these Moxtober creations.  Fblthp's Gotham Villains: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/gotham-halloween Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

We're winding down on 2023 and asked you for your best cards using this year's mechanics! We got battles, cybermans, Marvel characters (??) and a Wurmhole. Be sure to tune in! Check out the cards of Revolution: https://revolution-manifesto.herokuapp.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

Hold on to your butts! We're recapping our favorite new Universes Beyond Jurassic Park cards, then leaping claws-first into designing some new cards of our own! To help us, our guest Lyght learned to use their raptor claws to work door handle and busted in!  Lyght's Linktree - https://linktr.ee/LyghtThePhiRexian Battle of Big Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7kbVvpOGdQ Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

See if your commander pod can survive five nights with these cards! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

Dive into Bass's favorite cards from the new Dr Who set! Don't worry if you don't know the show, you'll get filled in on all sorts of flavor. Plus a nice helping of weird alien guys. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

One of our coolest Design Challenges ever! We asked you to take the rules box of an existing card and spin it into a new one without changing more than a single word. The submissions are amazing! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Moxtober is the big yearly Magic design event in the custom community! We've got the creator of Moxtober on the pod this week. We talk about where this year's prompts came from, then we play a game where we review some cards and try to guess which prompt goes with which card! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Brad's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bradleyrose Brad's bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/specialbeamcannon.bsky.social Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

We're live designing this week! Start with an existing card and some directions, and punch that card up! We've got vampires, obsession, booster packs, Grozoth, skeletons, and playtest cards! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

This episode has it all! A new set! More spooky Castmire! Moxtober tie-in! New Battle subtype! A dead body! Listen in to hear all about Juliet's new Jumpstart set. Ten packs, but with 13 cards per pack. Tons of great discussion and you can hop right in. Juliet's writing at: https://cohost.org/folly Moxtober recaps at: https://www.youtube.com/@anandsuresh6421 Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com Music is "Hey, Happy Birthday to You" by Dee Culp

Juliet and Redbay talk through a draft of Redbay's three-color factions set, Traegar. Along the way, they discuss different ways of looking at high-power environments, the compromises and top-down vision needed to make a shard/wedge gold set work, and how to adapt when you have too many playables. Traegar is in design right now! You can come draft it, chime in on its progress, and do your own pack 1 pick 1's in the ⁠redbay-traegar channel on the Beacon of Creation discord! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Your challenge was using concept art from the 2024 Magic sets. Our job is to review them all and pick our favorites! From tiny pirate ships to Italian assassins to twenty-one swords, this month's Design Challenge is packed with fun and clever designs! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Alert! Super fun episode!! Community members Dillon and patrick went on a spree of designing Squad mechanics. Monsquadsity, Ninsquadtsu, Squecho, Musquade, and dozens more! Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

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