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Beacon of Creation episodes

September 18, 2024 Champion's Podium! League Wrap-Up w/Provocative and Brad
Our last pod about Design League 3 is here! We've got both league champ Prov and runner-up Brad here to talk about their process, the planes, and their ideas for the future! Be sure to catch our previous two league pods for some helpful context on this one.

Recommendations

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

Prov recommends: watching soccer!

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1 hr 7 min
September 11, 2024 Eight Legs Challenge Review w/Squares that Cube
Two-thirds of the Squares that Cube podcast join the pod this week to break down YOUR submissions to our Octopus-Overloaded challenge, Eight Legs a Week! Will our six arms be enough??

Squares that Cube feed: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2298320

StC Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0rM876ypRLwnF7rodNaUAZ

StC's Pacific NW drafters Discord: https://discord.gg/eu4nthkkf5

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1 hr 56 min
September 04, 2024 Sunset Sacrifice! League Finals Entry from Provocative
Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Provocative's entry, and you'll hear all about some new tokens, Rakdos planeswalkers, and why the sun is bad!

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1 hr 20 min
August 28, 2024 I Wanna Rock! League Finals Entry from Bradley Rose
Our league finalists had to invent a whole standard deck, along with making up ideas for a variety of standard sets to go in it! This week is Bradley Rose's entry, and you'll learn about it along with us. Super exciting!

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1 hr 8 min
August 21, 2024 Running an All-Magic Weekend
Calming beach views, cooking for your friends, and all the Magic you could want! Tim and guest Shobi make the case for taking out a whole weekend with friends for playing Magic. Too much? Or not enough? They also go through all the cool drafts they did over the course of three days of Magic.

Shobi's show in Portland: https://www.funhouselounge.com/burwesque/

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1 hr 25 min
August 14, 2024 Spinning Templates! Tightening Rules Text
Bloomburrow's rules change to "enters" has us hungry for more! Can we shorten "once a turn", "flicker", "end of turn", and more? Join our tour of rules text minutiae.

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1 hr 8 min
August 07, 2024Following Signposts - Bloomburrow
Bloomburrow is here! We've had a look at the archetypes, and it's time for us to break down the design of each of them. For that, we have our 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 is less abuut how to pick the best cards to win games, and more about the impression these archetypes might make on players picking up the set. With these tools we can also improve how we design our own sets.

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1 hr 41 min
July 31, 2024 777 Jackpot Challenge Review
This month's challenge is all about making a mana fixing card! Even better if we can get some heist flavor in there. From jewels to rads to chains we've got a pile of cards to dive into!

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Music by Dee Culp
1 hr 20 min
July 24, 2024 Live Design - Our Other Half
We're making good on June's "Halfway There" and designing cards to go with our favorite submissions from that challenge! Finding the right balance of flavor, deckbuilding, and explosive commander fun is a big challenge!

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Music by Dee Culp
59 min
July 17, 2024 Frog-et Me Not! Making a Splash in Bloomburrow
Tim liked what he saw in Bloomburrow previews ordered up a frog burger with a side of flies and Juliet serves up the A-B-Cs of F-R-O-Gs! We talk a little Bloomburrow, dive deep on the history of frogs in Magic, then explore some design ideas for frogs in the future.

Juliet's July/December Christmas pod: https://moonshotpods.com/ill-be-pod-for-castmas/

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54 min

About Beacon of Creation

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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!