Beacon of Creation

Juliet and Khord celebrate Carly Rae Jepsen's new album by looking back on magic's use of Night and Day, from its first inception of art through the surprises of jelly doughnuts all the way to a midnight hunt before arriving at the Echoverse of Reality Fracture. Then, they turn the tables with a new mechanic with less bookkeeping for playing in this binary space! Choir Khord referenced: https://yo...

We've got bread, pie, coffee and fruit this week for our second review of your Sup-tember submissions! We challenged you to make food that speaks to a setting! You might say these submissions are packed with flavor! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images: https://beaconofcreation.com

This week we're talking about your flavor-blasted food cards! Tell us about your setting through the lens of its edibles. Food themes can be hard to make work in limited, but many of our submitters aimed for the bonus points here and gave us cool uncommons. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images: https://beaconofcreation.com

Host Juliet and Guest Leo have a grand discussion of the cards from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets, what new players can learn just from a pack of cards, how to design a Jumpstart set that's accessible, whether Blue is the hardest color, how you name a horse's color, and how you name a horse. CubeCobra link for the packs: https://cubecobra.com/user/packages/5e6180b151863852da4a74b8 Join Bea...

With the new Empower Jace mechanic from Reality Fracture, we've got tokens on the mind! From format-defining tokens to one-off nostalgia cards, we dive deep into the world of tokens. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images: https://beaconofcreation.com

Our challenge review block comes to a close with some wild text-changing effects! Ogre-load, Servos, Carbo-load, and maybe the hardest to track card we've ever reviewed (in a fun way)! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images:  https://beaconofcreation.com

Summer challenge time continues! We've got a whole new set of challenges and cards to review. Text changing effects can be quite tricky and unusual, so it takes a lot of unpacking to get to the root of each of them. Stay tuned for some cool Planechase draft technology! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images:  https://beaconofcreation.com

Incarnations embody the feeling of an "exciting cycle". Our community members sent in their exciting cards that also have the potential for 4 more cards in other colors. Tune in for our first "reverse challenge" where our member Xena challenges Juliet! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images:  https://beaconofcreation.com

Tune in as we unpack and understand another crop of alien, ephemeral Incarnations! This challenge really brought out the mind bending rules text. We've got nine powerful cards to review, some of which are shooting for our "could be in Foundations" bar for complexity. Did anyone make it? Check out the episode! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images:  ht...

Our trips to the beach for Magic Camp are always filled with some big swings and fun games. Tim's friend Keith hops on to the pod to help recap a successful outing full of inspiration for cube, card design, and formats. Keith's cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/about/Unbound The No Limit Cube: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/SlayerBFM The version of Hellscube 4 we played:  https://cubecobra.com/cub...

Our latest challenge asked submitters to submit big, abtract creatures that could fit in a five color cycle. How do you convey vast and unusual in a non-legendary Magic card? Plus, at least one card submitted in jest. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images:  https://beaconofcreation.com (fixed initial cold open audio)

Learn all about the newest set from the dynamic duo of Redbay and MonoWhiteBorder! Heavy creature focus, lots of combat rewards, and a free spirit of rebellion. Cyberpunk minus the artifact theme! Lots of fun things to learn about their new project. Browse the cards from the set: https://rrredbay.github.io/sets/NRC Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Image...

The new Marvel Jumpstart product has a ton of special things about it. Lots of unique cards just for these packs, some nice fixing and card flow elements, plus a ton of exciting themes that hook into each other. We catch everyone up on Jumpstart, breakdown strengths and weaknesses, then go pack by pack to get some specific lessons from the designs. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discor...

Wrap up our "hatebears" challenge with your best 2 mana 2/2s that slow down your opponents' strategy. As usual, your submissions drifted from that starting point into some exciting areas. Punish those lacking devotion, buy some plush merch, and witness the return of the Atog in this fun deep dive episode. New Eps of Juliet's other show coming soon:  https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/...

Continuing our review of your "hatebear" cards, which mix assertive combat with rule-bending counterbalances. These rule-centric cards have HUGE design implications, so stay tuned for, among other things, a review of the layers system. New Eps of Juliet's other show coming soon:  https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/ Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Not...

For June, we asked for your best "hatebear" cards. Small creatures, big roadblocks for your opponents. What different ways can you impede your opponent? New Eps of Juliet's other show coming soon:  https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/ Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images:  https://beaconofcreation.com

Ever want to knock a mana off a creature? Remove a bad drawback from a land? Sharpie Cube is the idea of redacting rules text. Always subtraction, never addition. Community member Otter has extensive experience making these edits and walks us through his principals and rules for modifying cards. Then we sharpie some cards live! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show No...

We've got community members AuxilliaryOtter and first time guest CryptRat on to talk cooperative Magic! We go deep on the innovations found in the new TMNT Team Up product, then walk through our community's pitches for cooperative and multiplayer modes! Co-op is still such a new and unexplored part of Magic, so there's plenty to learn in this episode. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://di...

Are you Prepared for the second half of our black-mana artifact and land prepared spell design challenge? Tim and Juliet go on an Adventure reviewing all the submissions and have an Omen for next month's challenge. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images:  https://beaconofcreation.com

This month we pay homage to our nation's wetlands by reviewing a variety of black mana producing cards. You might be disappointed by only ten cards, but secretly you get the full 20 thanks to adventures, omens, and prepared spells! Lots of discussion on the amount of juice you put into a land, and not a small amount of discussion around demon worship. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://di...

Juliet and game designer Andrew Gillis tackle the noblest of beasts and regalest of steeds, the humble donkey. From its memorable place in Eventide as a goblin-replacement, to its historical role in documented in human society, to the artistic fancy of human-donkey transformation, there's fertile ground to design more Noggles!  You can find Andrew's game We Contain Solitudes here: https://sevencro...

Baneslayer Angel vs Mulldrifter is a spectrum of on-board presence versus pre-loaded value. This week's episode is a cube design episode about that tension. Community member Redbay hops back on the pod to outline the philosophy behind their "Baneslayer Cube" which puts more focus on battling creatures.  Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images:  https://...

This week we talk about and design for the "Popcorn" game in our Discord community. Fast paced, exciting, and pretty eccentric are apt descriptions for the cooperative hopper of cards. Design a card based off of the last card, and the next person designs one off of yours. We go over some highlights from the game, then design a pair of cards ourselves! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://di...

Cain may be the "first author" of cities, but Juliet and game designer Nic Tringali dive deep into what makes the city, and the city builder, so frequent a fantasy in games and in real life. Along the way they discuss Amberspire, the hit new city-builder that goes live the day this episode releases, and design some brand-new Magic cards! Find Amberspire on Steam:  https://store.steampowered.com/ap...

The big episode is here! Our new yearly tradition where our listeners try to fool us! Each card we review today is either a real card with name and color changed or a completely made up card. Can we tell the difference? We use a variety of clues to try to bust the fakes and make the right guess! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images:  https://beaconof...