Beacon of Creation

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 crit...

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 This is a change to clean up name, creature type, size, or other things that are out of date or out of sync.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 som...

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 a...

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...

Ten new versions of Fact or Fiction with guest host @Mark_Confidant ! Follow @magicdesigncast account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Bradley and Tim go over the results of the Castmire themes poll, talk about the top finishers, then discuss their experiences in the Castmire Milestone 3 playtest! DC 44 - Red Means Stomp, Green Means Go  - Design a R or G Visit-related card that fits especially well in an RG Visit Stompy deck, and less well outside of that. For this challenge we aren't looking for the typical "uncommon signpost g...

Our Lightning Bolt episode went over so well that Tim and Juliet made 10 editions of Explore! We're also experimenting with leaving in more of the conversation in the podcast version and trimming the content down for the Youtube video. Follow @magicdesigncast account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Let's make ten riffs on Lightning Bolt! Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Bradley and Tim review your sweet Castmire Jumpstart pack lists, review the new cards, and give our impressions of Jumpstart as a playtest strategy.  DC 43 - Describe the Suspect - Identify one or two cards in the current Castmire set file that needs one or more changes. Describe what should be changed and why without providing a suggested solution. This will be a potential flagged card for redesi...

Bradley and Tim discuss the development of a new mechanic for Tim's Planeswalkers-as-Commanders-in-Limited set, "Contenders". Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh 1:17 Contenders intro 4:04 Mercenaries mechanics and flavor 10:42 Counters in Contenders 13:50 Reinforce 16:15 Bloodrush 18:40 Modular 22:41 Unleash 25:01 Renown 32:42 Introducing Mobilize 38:24 Red Mobilize 4...

Bradley and Tim discuss your pitches for color pair archetypes in Castmire to think about ahead of Milestone 3. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

For his fourth return to Beacon of Creation, guest host Rob (AlchemyPrime) joins Bradley and Tim to discuss the Jumpstart format and some card highlights from the set. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Famed G-host Juliet joins the cast to talk us through some more issues facing WotC lately and how the podcast could respond. Then we jump into DC40's off-color activation cards, which have some wild technology going on. DC41 - (stephen fry voice) Themes - Suggest a color pair's draft theme/subthemes, with up to 60 words we can read on the podcast about that theme. Follow @createcastmire account an...

We are joined by community members Unstable Saucer and Larcent to discuss our picks for interesting designs in M21. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We review updates to existing cards in the Castmire file with the inhabit and jumpscare mechanics. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Adam is leaving Beacon of Creation and Magic. He talks about his reasons for doing so at the start of this episode. Zaiem Beg's "The Wizards I Know": https://twitter.com/zbeg/status/1269962379925708801 This episode also covers Inhabit card designs. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Our weekend episode tackles the next step of building a cube: cutting cards from your first pass of ideas. Tim cooked up a list of cards for a possible Zendikar cube, pulling cards from both Z-blocks. Joining him and Bradley are returning guests Rob AKA Alchemyprime and Markus AKA Mark_Confidant. This episode is packed with lots of discussions about individual cards, the context this cube creates...

Next week: DC38 " Back Again" -  Redesign up to two cards in the file based on what won the flashback haunt poll. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

For our bonus episode this weekend, we take a break from custom Magic design and instead start building a cube together! This episode is more free flowing, with a lot of little insights and ideas. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Next week: DC37 " Startling Changes" - Propose a change to the startle mechanic and showcase it with an existing startle card in the set. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We double up the pod this week for a discussion of Contender's loyalty rules, its limitations discovered in testing, and a whole slew of alternates.  Check out the Contenders at http://www.planesculptors.net/set/contenders Find us @beaconofcreation and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Next week: DC36 " Be Our Guest" - Submit up to two flashback-style haunt cards at common with Dillon's flavor in mind. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We talk about how the Castmire playtesting went for Milestone 2 and talk a lot about haunt and startle and the future of those mechanics.