Part of what makes Custom Magic fun is how easy it is to get into. Design a card, show it around, and done! For the New Year, Juliet wanted to tell us all about other ways to get involved in game design as a solo designer. There's so much in this pod!!!

Some of the tools described:

GB Studio https://www.gbstudio.dev

Bitsy https://bitsy.org

Renpy https://www.renpy.org

Button Shy https://buttonshygames.com

downpour https://downpour.games

decker https://internet-janitor.itch.io/decker

RPGMaker w/Pokemon Essentials https://essentialsdocs.fandom.com/wiki/Essentials_Docs_Wiki

 Also look forward to Showcase Zero this Friday!

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We've got a ten pack of Defender-matters cards to review this month for our (Ad)vent Sentinel design challenge! The added twist here of getting the number 12 on a card really put our designers on an interesting track.

Juliet's Castmas pod: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/

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We've got a super cool guest for our episode this week! Principal game designer on the new Teamfight Tactics season, Shawn Elizabeth Main!! Not only that, Shawn was the lead on Conspiracy, so you know we're getting some multiplayer Magic talk in too. These Design Crossover eps are all about learning a new game and then riding that wave of inspiration back into some ideas for Magic. This one is for the multiplayer draft heads!

The new TFT set/season, Into the Arcane: https://teamfighttactics.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/set-overview/teamfight-tactics-into-the-arcane/

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Unpacking is where we go through a pack one card at a time and learn what we can just from that pack. No archetype lists, no explanation of mechanics, just what's on the cards. It's a great way to both see what the packs can tell us, but also brainstorm things that COULD be in a set but aren't.

(also shh... we told Bradley he was recording an ep about Foundations so we could suprise him)

The pack: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AmyuCVn_UGWJ_cGtpBhtX7abaEiGeLnGVbTuz98bBg4/edit?usp=sharing

Bradley's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bradleyrose

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We've got Bass back on the pod to tell us EVERYTHING about the short-lived Transformers TCG! This game burned short but burned bright. You start with your whole team in play, and each card has value both as a spell but also during the super cool "flip" phase of combat! Like all Crossover eps, we also sprinkle in plenty of ideas of how to cross those mechanics back into Magic.

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Who needs to cast spells when you can sit back and let your creatures do the casting? Just the easy life for us! Fortunately our listeners didn't take it easy and instead submitted a baker's dozen creatures-that-cast spells cards for us to review.

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We're back with a new crossover episode! Peter explains everything Tim needs to know about Wingspan, then they ride the wave of inspiration into a variety of mechanics for Magic! You don't need to know anything about Wingspan to listen (Tim didn't!)

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Music by Dee Culp

Spurred by the idea of simultaneous combat, Peter and Tim delve into all the phases and steps of a turn! After honing our understanding of each one, we also break out into some free form ideas. Deleting the draw step? A "start turn" phase to match "end turn"? Multiplayer alternating main phase actions? Lots more discussed.

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Juliet and Esper witness the carefully-designed majesty of magister sphinxes on the white-blue-black Esper shard, from its played-everywhere cards to possibly the worst card in all of Magic: The Gathering.

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Moxtober is our yearly event where we design cards based on a daily, one-word prompt. What would you design for "Alpha" or "Trial"? Our community designed a ton of cards. This year, we're putting the spotlight on all our new submitters (plus a who came back!). Moxtober is for everyone and this episode is a celebration of that!

New members in this ep:

Smell Hole - Smoking Gun

Underworld Dreamer - Leyline of Inevitability

The Real Eli - I Am Error

Gluestick248 - Burning Slice

YABO - Alpha Alpha

Regal-Turtwig - Downfall of the Spire

Talone - Limited Edition Alpha

Ortuy - Escape Pursuit

Therandomguyhi/Alastar - Alpha Agonizer

sky.net - Break the Mirror

PlaidWeaselVT - Animal, Loose Cannon

Evan - Thunderous Sozu

Spiderify - Gracinda

Hamadyne - Barely Alive

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