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Design League starts back up May 26th, and to get you ready we've got League Emperor Redbay and longtime judges Juliet and Tim. They talk through the process, their judging styles, and even live design and judge a card on air!
The challenge we revisit: https://www.beaconofcreation.com/2023/06/21/design-league-season-2-qualifier-5-results/
See Juliet on the Moonshot Moongarita charity drive: https://twitter.com/MoonshotPods/status/1792638421816553724
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Heat up your cauldron and practice your hexes because we're going goth! We're looking at the videogame Midnight Suns and seeing what we can carry back into Magic. This card-based strategy game is by the same studio as the Civilzation and X-Com games, so it's coming from a different starting point. Tim and Peter talk through the gameplay and extrapolate where Magic could take those ideas.
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We're taking your submissions one day (and night) at a time! We asked for your common day/nightbound cards and we got a bumper crop! Hitting that common rarity on a double face card is a narrow target, ESPECIALLY for our listeners who love to pack innovation into each card.
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Time to bring the cows home! We've got the second half of our new episode format, where we check out all the draft archetypes of a set. This is focused on the gold cards and on Wizard's description of the pairs. Our categories are:
Excitement: Is this a cool new strategy? Do these two cards inspire us? Accuracy: Do we believe decks will actually be able to play this strategy? Synergy: Does this make unused cards great? Are these cards only good in the right deck? Raw Strength: Are these two cards useful on their own? Do these cards lead me to this color pair? Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
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New set! New mechanics! New episode format??? We kick the tires on a new way to break down arcuns, those gold cards we get every set that help define draft. Rather than going for power rankings or in-depth numbers on a whole set, we're trying to model how people see these cards for the first time. To do that, we've got four categories:
Excitement: Is this a cool new strategy? Do these two cards inspire us? Accuracy: Do we believe decks will actually be able to play this strategy? Synergy: Does this make unused cards great? Are these cards only good in the right deck? Raw Strength: Are these two cards useful on their own? Do these cards lead me to this color pair? This was such a fun way to break down cards that we went DEEP. Originally one ep, we broke this into two! Look forward to more next week!
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This week we are Beacon of Tomorrows, a podcast about time! We look over all the ways Magic has to take extra turns and try to brainstorm some new directions. From Alpha to Dr Who there are many ways to keep it going.
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