Beacon of Creation

  We onboard new folks and talk a bit about Milestone 2 and the direction Castmire is going. Next week: DC35 " Be Our Guest" - Write a short description of why and how the residents of Castmire are in the form of animated furniture. (800 words or less.) Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh  

In which your heroes talk about startle and go over user submitted designs. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We review the second half of our Haunting submissions and discuss possible paths forward for Haunting on Castmire! Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We outline Milestone 2 and review DC31's haunting designs. DC32's discussion will come later this week. Next week: DC33 " Red Scare" - Red common creature that startles. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

The missing middle of episode 117 is here! We lovingly tear into all of the Visit alternative ideas for more than an hour! Time Warp sound effect by Mike Koenig  Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We review your submissions for tweaks to Castmire cards after the Milestone 1 playtest. A second, monster episode about Visit is coming later this week! DC31 "Haunter" - Design a card that includes haunting a card in a way that makes it better. DC32 "Haunted" - Design a card that rewards haunting. Time Warp sound effect by Mike Koenig  Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vp...

Our weekend playtest with the Castmire community generated tons of data! We go over the results of the surveys, which leads into lots of little discussions on cards in the set. The design challenges this week do some new things, so be sure to listen to the episode for more info! Design Challenge 29 "Tweak the Numbers" - Change one number on a card in Castmire. (ex. increase/decrease power or tough...

G-Host Juliet joins us as we talk Castmire playtesting!!! Get excited!!! The fun starts this Saturday! We also review some chunky white creatures and some a-Door-able green rares. There's no card design challenge this week. Instead, the challenge is to submit flavor text for a card in the Castmire set! Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Supremely helpful Discord member Mark A (what does the A even stand for????) joins us to review some of the last few commons for Castmire Milestone 1! It's almost time to playtest all of our community's hard work! Next week's Design Challenges: DC27 "Big and Scar(ed/y)!!" - Design a large white uncommon creature with a startle ability. DC28 "Plant Food for Thought" - Design a green rare or mythic...

With the end of Castmire Milestone 1 approaching, we review some of the remaining keywords and costs that each color are missing. Next week's Design Challenges: DC25 "Black Hole" - Make a black common based on what we just talked about. DC26 "With Sugar" - Make a common nonblack card that is a french vanilla. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Bradley reports back from Reno! Then, Design Challenge reviews where we discover items behind doors and spells that were inside us all along. Next week's Design Challenges: DC23 "Home Renovation" - Rework a previous submission to Castmire that didn't make it into the file. Bonus points for reworking someone else's card! DC24 "New Wing Under Construction" - Make a new card that works well with an e...

Following our new listener episode last week, we switch back into going deep on listener design challenge submissions! We've got equipment-loving blue creatures and deadly hexproof creatures to review. Next week's Design Challenges: DC21 "Look What I Found" - An equipment card with visit. DC22 "Look What I Learned" - A big spell that someone learned in Castmire. Follow @createcastmire account and...

New to the podcast or new to custom Magic cards? This episode is designed to get you up to speed! Juliet Louis joins us to help  describe what it's like to make your own Magic card sets. We also introduce you to Castmire, the spooky mansion plane. DC19 "Suit Up" - A common blue creature that cares about equipment. DC20 "Did you see that?" - A green or multicolored hexproof creature with a hard-to-...

Bradley grills Tim about his Magic-packed weekend, talking about a wide variety of Magic formats. Then the two hosts discuss cards themed around The Exit and a bunch of super-funny cards referencing real world characters. No design challenges this week to make room for a big Castmire recap next week! Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Continuing our march to fill up Castmire with sweet cards, we talk about some haunted house tropes and dive into some sweet challenges! Design challenges, due Feb 10th, 6pm PT: DC17 "Exit Strategy" - An uncommon showing someone looking for The Exit. DC18 "Referential Treatment" - A card that directly references a character in pop culture. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t8...

The original Goblin King, Jay Zeffren, stops by to talk about GoblinGame and review a bunch of design challenges! Design challenges, due Feb 3rd, 6pm PT: DC15: "Resonance Theory" - A common showing off a haunted house trope. Such as: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HauntedHouse DC16: "Goblin King in Exile" - Design a rare goblin lord that you wouldn't be upset drafting early in a set w...

We talk villains and review villain and signpost cards! And what is that shadow gathering among us... Design challenges, due Jan 27th, 6pm PT: DC13: "Lord's Command" - Design a white card that is strong in commander. DC14: "Commoner's Disobedience" - Design a black card that is strong in pauper. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Larcent joins the podcast to discuss Theros: Beyond Death! Design challenges, due Jan 20th, 6pm: DC11: "Nefarious Plan" - A legendary monocolored villain and their signature spell. DC12: "Sign Language" - An uncommon multicolored draft signpost card. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Adam, Bradley and Tim each bring a cycle to talk about and then review DC10, which is about haunting cycles in Castmire. No design challenge this week. We're saving lots of time to talk about Theros: Beyond Death next week! Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Ada, Bradley and Tim ring in the new year with three more Castmire challenges.  Next week's design challenge is:  DC10 - "Spin Cycle" Make a cycle of commons with a haunting theme. Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Bradley and Tim invite early Castmire star Markus Leben, AKA @Mark_Confidant, to discuss the second batch of design challenges! Follow @createcastmire account and join us at discord.gg/t88Vpwh 2:58 DC4 - " Where Am I?" 31:36 DC5 - "Who is That?" 1:04:32 DC6 - "What is This?" 1:28:28 - Next Week's Design Challenges

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?...

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...

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