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What Makes a Teenage Turtle Mutant?

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Juliet poses a philsophical question on the nature of identity and gets a crash course on TMNT from turtle-expert Riley Hopkins. In the face of Ooze, does patience or pizza win out? Did you know that Splinter is a cross-universe pun the whole time? Along the way, they design a quartet of fun new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Magic the Gathering cards. Check out Moonshot streams at: Get even more Moonshot (including more Juliet) at: Watch their Silent Hill f vids too: Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:

Following Signposts - Lorwyn Eclipsed, plus Hybrid Talk

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Our usual Following Signposts faces its biggest challenge yet: Lorwyn Eclipse's crazy draft structure! Part traditional set, part hybrid nonsense, with 8 archetypes instead of 5 or 10. Tons of hybrid talk, which is looking to be a key part of the UB small set era. Khord's stuff: Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images: Intro music by Dee Culp

Janus-uary Challenge Review, pt 2

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Flip over last week's episode because we've got a whole extra pod on the back! More of your two-sided noncreature cards this week. We've got references to Alpha, 1500s paintings, multiple Rakdos goopy trash cards, and a Battle for the finale. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images: Intro music by Dee Culp

Janus-uary Challenge Review, pt 1

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This month's challenge asked you to submit double sided cards where neither side is a creature. The star of the show, though, is the bonus challenge, which was to also make the card easy to read! Along the way Juliet talks about reading Tolstoy, Tim asks for a famous web app, and Guff rewrites history. Check out community member Xena's new game, Surreality Check: Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images: Intro music by Dee Culp

Shadowmoor and Horror in Magic: the Gathering

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Juliet and special guest horror author Nat Silveira talk about what makes horror as a genre work in speculative fiction and Shadowmoor as a setting, then design two different Shadowmoor-themed body-horror cards! You can check out Nat's new book The Chrysalis Body at or Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images: Intro music by Dee Culp

Lorwyn and Peace in Magic: the Gathering

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All this Lorwyn in the air has got Juliet thinking about the works of 1894, which also leads to thoughts of nonviolence. Follow our train of thought to hear a discussion of new player's aversion to combat, the joy of changelings, and the diet of Mirrans. Then we each design a new Lorwyn card building on all we talked about! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images: Intro music by Dee Culp

What We Learned From Power Cube

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Power Cube is back on Arena and as wild as always. There's lessons to take away from designing high powered cards and formats. Also make sure to stick around for our fun new game of "B or F?" where Peter has to guess whether a card is 60% winrate or 50% winrate in Power Cube data from 17lands. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images: Intro music by Dee Culp

December the Titans Challenge Review

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Another hefty design review ep for all of you! Hear our reactions, feedback and insight on the latest crop of submissions. This time, we're getting cards that (mostly...) have the "enters or attacks" titan text. This is the souped up merger of the "value now" and "value later" angles to creature design, and it leads to some powerful cards. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images: Intro music by Dee Culp

Revising Revised Edition! Retro Design Philosphy

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Every amateur designer is tempted to mess with the past... What if you could change broken cards? Customize a draft format more to your liking? Provide the perfect on-ramp for new players? Tim brings Peter on to go in-depth on his long-simmering project of overhauling early Magic through the lens of Revised aka 3rd Edition. How do you create the feeling of awe and mystery of early Magic? What cards can change and what have to stay the same? Can we bring back Ante?? Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images: Intro music by Dee Culp

Live Design! Designing Commanders for Secret Sram-ta

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This week Gaby is on the pod to talk about a deck swap we're doing with our local friends. Like a Secret Santa, we were each given a mission, and needed to build a deck to that spec. After finishing our decks, we couldn't help but think of what we'd do with some custom magic energy. Join us as we each design a commander, first for "Mischievous Chaos" and then for "If you've got the money honey i've got your disease". Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images: Intro music by Dee Culp

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