Beacon of Creation

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

Kayiu and Tim crack open platypeople's pack for the "Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo" Finals challenge for the Design League! We saw LudosGD's entry earlier in the week, how will the two stack up? We've got bullies! Circles! Safes! and Triangles! Join our Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Tim and Kayiu are excited to crack open LudosGD's entry into the "Lives and Lies of Tibalt and Tamiyo" challenge finals! This is both a card-by-card Unpacking as well as their judging conversation. Moon projections! Drones! Tourists! Colossal stuff! Baby animal people! Join our Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

The Design League is roaring towards its conclusion and we've got highlights from the tournament rounds! Round 2's Planeswalker vacations and Round 3's color-coordinated creature packs made for great cards. Join our Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

In Unpacking, we go through the cards in a pack without knowing anything beyond that pack. Through this lens, we try to guess themes, mechanics, flavor, and more! This time we're looking at Primivir and starting with a single mysterious image of an angular, abstract city scape. The set is by Myrmiredon. Planesculptors: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/primivir Join our Discord:  https://discord....

Worlds collide with community member Fblthp's League of Legends-themed MEGAset. We get the download on the shape of the Jumpstart packs and then get some flavor and cards for the Noxus faction. Set file: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/runeterra-jumpstart-noxus#cards Noxus Lore: https://universe.leagueoflegends.com/en_US/region/noxus/ Join our Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and car...

Tokens, Two-Headed Giant, and Draft collide with the "Two-ken Play At That Game" challenge! You all scoured Scryfall for the most obscure tokens and cooked up your coolest multiplayer cards! Tim and MDub go through all 18 of your submissions and pick their favorites. Join our Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card images at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Kayiu and Juliet bring on Queen Emily to talk about her latest completed project, Songs of Yisai!  Inspired by Jewish mythology and biblical sources, this set mixes artifacts, enchantments, and a WUBRG theme.  Songs of Yisai PlaneSculptors:  https://www.planesculptors.net/set/songs-of-yisai Songs of Yisai Stories: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l4hgZTjI94G-dwVhhY3i5sY8MnvSe6kzCvnDJ38Fcp8/edit...

Commander Redbay has launched the fleet of League designers into the world of planet-scale sci-fi adventure! Tim and Juliet set the stage for this setting and then highlight cards from the recently completed Design League Season 2 Top 8. Experience Christmas in July via comparative fiction with Juliet's other show, I'll be Pod for Castmas: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/ Juliet ha...

Buggy big bugs! We asked for your 6/3 insects with some sort of design flaw. We got a swarm of submissions, so I brought on Hayley as a guest! The "bugs" in each card are each their own little puzzle and it's fun to dig into the rules. Next month's challenge asks for some unique tokens, so get your scryfall searches going. Find out more on our Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps and card i...

This week Juliet brings on Middle Earth Horse Expert Westley to discuss all the horse cards of the new LOTR set! An episode sure to be a colt classic. Check out the full run of Shadowfacts: https://shadowfactspod.podbean.com/ and find Westley on Cohost: https://cohost.org/HorseArchivist Jump on our Discord:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Recaps at: https://www.beaconofcreation.com

Jump into another world with a Lord of the Rings custom set made before the Wizards set! Bass walks us through the brainstorm and playtesting of his ideas for Middle Earth. If you like keywords and mechanics, this is the episode for you, as Bass tried a lot of big new mechanics and little tweaks and keywordings!! Check out Bass's mega blog post and learn even more about this set. Follow Bass on Tw...

We've got custom Magic superstar Pipsqueak back on the pod this week to talk about her set Animus Vox. Space exploration, music, and contemplation set the mood for this great set. Check out the MSEverse page, especially the fiction: https://mseverse.miraheze.org/wiki/Animus_Vox_(set) Also mentioned in the ep is Pipsqueak's Lion's Eye Quotient: https://custommagiccodex.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/the-...

May's challenge asked the community for cards using "modified" that had cosmetic flavor. We've got 16 great cards to talk about and Tim and MWB dive right in! Chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Full show notes at https://www.beaconofcreation.com

The second of our four custom Unpacking episodes, where we go card-by-card in a pack for a set we've never seen before! This time, Tim is joined by community member LudosGD. What will be unveiled when the curtain rises??  Chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Full Grand Gala card list: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/the-grand-gala

This week is the long-awaited spotlight on Seasons of War, the custom commander limited set! Creator Timespiraled joins the show to tell us everything they learned making it and what they enjoy about the final product! Chat with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Check out the cards in the set: https://msem-instigator.herokuapp.com/card?q=e%3Aswr Go deep with the design doc: https://docs.go...

In Unpacking, we go one-by-one through cards in a pack. We learn what we can from just the cards in front of us; no set summary and no knowledge of the mechanics. It's a fun way to see cards with fresh eyes. This time Redbay joins Tim in going through a pack of Memories of the Silver City by Chartate101. We go in just seeing a picture of a green forest portal in a run-down city. Come along with us...

We put our foot down and issue an ultimatum: design us some great cards! You know the community is going to give us a huge haul of cool designs and plenty to talk about. Visit our Discord to enter our May Challenge: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Kayiu hosts a look at color-blasted, music-infused future set Hyperpop! Creators platypeople and IgnitedxSoul give you a comprehensive look starting with abandoned mechanics, then talking through the featured keywords, into themes, and finally some Revolution constructed shots. Check out the set: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/hyperpop Browse the Revolution format at: https://revolution-manife...

Episode 300 is here! We recap Castmire, the community-designed spooky mansion set. How it came to be, all the mechanics, and the potential directions for the set!  https://www.planesculptors.net/set/castmire Come chat with everyone on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Castmire theme is "Nightmare" by https://alexandernakarada.bandcamp.com

Learn all about Mattelonian's art and performance set, Merveaux! We learn all about what it takes to merge artifacts, enchantments, and three color wedges into one heavily playtested package.

Juliet and Susan discuss the things Cats are always known for: having antlers, flying, and having jobs! We break down some of Magic's most influential and adventurous felines, and together design a blue(paw)print card for what the future of this flavor might hold. You can find Susan's photography at https://instagram.com/qusiepop   the Moonshot Network's patreon at https://patreon.com/moonshotnetw...

March is over and your entries to the design challenge are here! Tim and Juliet review a sometimes-aquatic variety of artifact soldiers. There's lobsters, legions, french fish, swampy subs, an underwater robot, an undercover otter, overarmor, unliving, a hydrophile, a hydrophobe, filled bowls and hollow knights.  No episode next week! The team is busy. We'll be back the week after! Hop on our Disc...

Realmbreaker has reconnected all the planes and we're reconnecting with a format from the early 2010s: Planechase! This multiplayer-focused format switches rules early and often. What makes a good Plane card? Are the bad cards fun or just part of the vibe? What even is Belenon? Shout out to Christopher Lundgren for supplying the list of planes. Hop on our Discord to participate in the design chall...

MWB aka Peter challenges Juliet and Tim to layer the flavor on top of three flavorless cards. Each card has so many directions it could go which makes for a very funny discussion. We've got three more unseasoned cards for you to spice up. Find them and give your ideas on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Juliet's new game: https://mousewifegames.itch.io/echolocation Theme music by Dee Culp