Love Song of Day and Night
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Juliet and Khord celebrate Carly Rae Jepsen's new album by looking back on magic's use of Night and Day, from its first inception of art through the surprises of jelly doughnuts all the way to a midnight hunt before arriving at the Echoverse of Reality Fracture. Then, they turn the tables with a new mechanic with less bookkeeping for playing in this binary space! Choir Khord referenced: Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Sup-tember Challenge Review, part 2
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We've got bread, pie, coffee and fruit this week for our second review of your Sup-tember submissions! We challenged you to make food that speaks to a setting! You might say these submissions are packed with flavor! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Sup-tember Challenge Review
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This week we're talking about your flavor-blasted food cards! Tell us about your setting through the lens of its edibles. Food themes can be hard to make work in limited, but many of our submitters aimed for the bonus points here and gave us cool uncommons. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Talkin' Tolkein! Jump-starting Hobbit Precon Design
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Host Juliet and Guest Leo have a grand discussion of the cards from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets, what new players can learn just from a pack of cards, how to design a Jumpstart set that's accessible, whether Blue is the hardest color, how you name a horse's color, and how you name a horse. CubeCobra link for the packs: Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Talkin' Tokens! The Highs and Lows of Token Design
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With the new Empower Jace mechanic from Reality Fracture, we've got tokens on the mind! From format-defining tokens to one-off nostalgia cards, we dive deep into the world of tokens. Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh Show Notes and Images: https://beaconofcreation.com
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Aug-erload Challenge Review, part 2
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Our challenge review block comes to a close with some wild text-changing effects! Ogre-load, Servos, Carbo-load, and maybe the hardest to track card we've ever reviewed (in a fun way)! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Aug-erload Challenge Review, part 1
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Summer challenge time continues! We've got a whole new set of challenges and cards to review. Text changing effects can be quite tricky and unusual, so it takes a lot of unpacking to get to the root of each of them. Stay tuned for some cool Planechase draft technology! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Incarnation Challenge Review, part 3
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Incarnations embody the feeling of an "exciting cycle". Our community members sent in their exciting cards that also have the potential for 4 more cards in other colors. Tune in for our first "reverse challenge" where our member Xena challenges Juliet! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Incarnation Challenge Review, part 2
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Tune in as we unpack and understand another crop of alien, ephemeral Incarnations! This challenge really brought out the mind bending rules text. We've got nine powerful cards to review, some of which are shooting for our "could be in Foundations" bar for complexity. Did anyone make it? Check out the episode! Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
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Format Smorgasbord! Cube, Coop, and and Collusion at Magic Camp 2026
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Our trips to the beach for Magic Camp are always filled with some big swings and fun games. Tim's friend Keith hops on to the pod to help recap a successful outing full of inspiration for cube, card design, and formats. Keith's cube: The No Limit Cube: The version of Hellscube 4 we played: Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: Show Notes and Images:
info_outlineHost Juliet and Guest Leo have a grand discussion of the cards from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets, what new players can learn just from a pack of cards, how to design a Jumpstart set that's accessible, whether Blue is the hardest color, how you name a horse's color, and how you name a horse.
CubeCobra link for the packs: https://cubecobra.com/user/packages/5e6180b151863852da4a74b8
Join Beacon of Creation's Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh
Show Notes and Images: https://beaconofcreation.com