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October 21 Year of Mechanics + Moxtober Combo! Live Design w/rexxer3
We've got three cards to design this week! We pick back up with rexxer3 on their "Year of Mechanics" project, which has official stretched past a whole year due to how many mechanics Magic has! One card per mechanic, and this month there is a special twist. Each mechanic is paired with one of our Moxtober themes! How do we pair "Omen" with "Thane"?

Year of Mechanics gallery: https://flareporeon.github.io/previews/YOM

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53 min
October 14 Love Song of Day and Night
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: https://youtu.be/LhtMLmXZRI0?is=ZPFs_IY-BK5TjMyX

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54 min
October 07 Sup-tember Challenge Review, part 2
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!

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1 hr 40 min
September 30 Sup-tember Challenge Review
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.

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1 hr 34 min
September 23 Talkin' Tolkein! Jump-starting Hobbit Precon Design
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: https://cubecobra.com/user/packages/5e6180b151863852da4a74b8

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1 hr 46 min
September 16 Talkin' Tokens! The Highs and Lows of Token Design
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
1 hr 31 min
September 09 Aug-erload Challenge Review, part 2
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)!

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1 hr 43 min
September 02 Aug-erload Challenge Review, part 1
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!

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1 hr 34 min
August 26 Incarnation Challenge Review, part 3
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!

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1 hr 33 min
August 19 Incarnation Challenge Review, part 2
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!

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1 hr 38 min

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A show about design in Magic: the Gathering. Each week we cover both official cards and custom cards made by the community. The weekly design challenge gives you the opportunity to make it on the show! Hosted by Tim, Juliet, Kayiu and Markus, with guests!