Beacon of Creation

Don't want to make a full cube but want to get more adventurous than a set cube? Check out Tim's Mirrodin Double Block Cube , which brings in cards from six sets and fuses them into something both familiar and new. Redbay hops on the pod to ask all his questions about the cube and to suggest some fun additions from All Will the One. Our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Visit Redbay's band: http...

Seven days later. Ten new entries! Tune in for some great cards in our combined zombie/cupid design challenge! ChurchWizard MWB JamesDaltonBell Juliet Redbay monaters 3smuth Eshlelim Wobbles JBMannon Hop onto our Discord and get working on your entry for March: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

February and postapocalyptic zombie comas have one thing in common: 28 days! We review your zombie submissions, with potential bonuses of tokens, tribal, and archery! We'll see who pays tribute to Cupid in part one, covering the first half of submissions from: Sage B CryptRat Wraidzel Dillon PANOPTES BulkRare Grrrbear Dragon of the West The second half comes later this week! Until then, hop onto o...

It's Cupid month and Juliet is taking us on a deep dive into archery in Magic. What represents archery flavor best? What's the most fun? Fun Fact: "mechanistic" is another name for slab serifs! Hop on our Discord and tell us your ideal archers: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh  

League champ Wraidzel and league finalist 3smuth both jump on the pod. Get to know both of these great designers and go behind the scenes on their entries across the rounds of the challenge. Super fun ep with great guests! Submit your card for our new challenge, "28 Days Later", in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

3... 2... 1... Baby New Year! All the January children have been born, giving us a whopping 16 "Figure of Destiny" card submissions, all ready to be reviewed. What makes a good one drop? What does the curveout look across three abilities? What is Juliet's "most weird card ever"?? Submit your card for our new challenge, "28 Days Later", in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

The finals of the Design League are here: design a booster pack for a set themed around the children's board game Candy Land!! We're reviewing the second finalist in this episode, blown out into full Unpacking style. Card by card we speculate on themes, mechanics, and more! Head to the Discord to find out the winner on Wednesday! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

The finals of the Design League are here: design a booster pack for a set themed around the children's board game Candy Land!! We got a great pack from each finalist. We're giving each submission its own episode, blown out into full Unpacking style. Card by card we speculate on themes, mechanics, and more! Head to the Discord to find out the winner on Wednesday! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Phyrexia: All Will Be One includes a single Flashback card, using that mechanic "deciduously". These present-but-not-everywhere mechanics have been normal in commander decks forever, but it's only in the last year or so that standard sets have done this. Tim lit the beacon looking for someone to geek out on this with and Discord member LudosGD answered the call! We talk through what the current de...

The mother of machines and her armies loom large! We cover what phyrexia did in the past and what new mechanics could be corrupted for their purposes! Join the MSE server: https://discord.gg/R2AuKs4aYe Join us on the Beacon Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Super special episode this week! Kayiu's here with a selection of cards from the custom Revolution format and it's up to MWB and Bradley to guess what hit and what didn't!  Browse Revolution's sets and cards here: https://revolution-manifesto.herokuapp.com/format/revolution Hop on to Custom Magic discord: https://discord.gg/custommagic Join the Beacon Discord too:  https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Don't be a grinch: open your heart up to all these sweet black and white Miracle cards! Fifteen sweet cards packed into one fun ep! If you've got an idea for our new Baby New Year challenge, head to the Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Design League contestants Juliet and MonoWhiteBorder take over the pod and talk through how they came up with their cards. The challenges for reference: Card A : Submit a non-white, mono-colored card with the Ancestor mechanic to represent The New Age. (We will be using the Ancestor mechanic as written in Courageous Commander.) Cards B and C : (One of the following cards must include a returning m...

We dive head-first into the anime pool this week, discussing the early 2000s series Naruto! We break down some core mechanics from the series in Magic terms, then sketch out how some of the characters could be designed. Design Collab episodes always lead to interesting places and this one is no different! Follow along with Design League on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Deep dive into the eight qualifiers with help from league mastermind Redbay! Follow along with Design League on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

League mastermind Redbay is here to catch everyone up on his Design League and to announce the tournament challenge!  Hop onto the Discord now to follow along! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Music by Dee Culp

We've got just one pack to learn as much as we can about Dragons of Tarkir. What will it tell us? Is this secretly Muraganda? Are X/1s the name of the game? Is this set Silumgar vs Atarka? Are there even dragons here??? Submit your entry for the new design challenge in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We've got two pieces and it's time to meld these 8 challenges with Wednesday's 8! There's parenthesis names, lectures, searches, bright futures, lairs, lols, acronyms and agoraphobes. Submit your entry for the new design challenge in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Music as usual from Dee Culp

We've got the URge to ZA this week with your design challenge submissions! Listen in for scraps, warships, living robots, babies, lectures, expansions, walls, windows, and failures. Second half of the submissions coming this weekend! Submit your entry for the new design challenge in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Music as usual from Dee Culp

What could you learn from just a pack? This week we put aside anything we know about AVR and look at what one pack tells us. What are the themes and what does the gameplay look like? Tell us what packs you want to see on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Jaunty music from FreePD.com

We've got a great new tribute set Legacies of Tarkir on the pod this week! Creator Fblthp is here to help us break down their classic take on Tarkir. Full Set: https://cubeartisan.net/cube/yz/overview   Say hi to Fblthp and jump into our new Design League on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Tentacles! Branches! Hooks! Bows! Armor! Turtle Power! Mr Fantastic! Pumpkins without the hyphen! Devils! Mogwai! We've got it all in the second half of the Pump-kin challenge review. Your best and funniest Halloween cards in a battle to the death! Hop into the new Design League and more at https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We've got a card to preview for you for Spellslinger's upcoming Helvault Unsealed set! See if you can guess it, then let's think through all the decks and slingers it combos with! Wobbles leads the discussion and makes sure we have all the best info. This ep is good for newbies to SS as well. That game engine is just different enough from regular MTG that it's informative and interesting to compar...

All the critters come out for the Pump-kin challenge! All of your best pump spells with all your spookiest tribes. We've got healthy Skeletons, merfolks protecting the rim, scarecrows, swarms, eyes, goggles that do nothing, bog standards, per-Blex-ing batches, and a lil fruit bat in this episode! Keep the Moxtober heat up by hopping on our Discord and share your designs! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Moxtober is finishing up and we're highlighting a bunch of special projects that go beyond the base "prompt a day" style submissions: MWB's Classic Movie Monsters Dillion's Legends reborn Bradley's Chimaera deck LudosGD's illustrated story Loreley Weisel-Librizzi's twitter-size planeswalker stories. Keep the Moxtober heat up by hopping on our Discord and share your designs! https://discord.gg/t88V...