Beacon of Creation

Don't want to make a full cube but want to get more adventurous than a set cube? Check out Tim's Mirrodin Double Block Cube, which brings in cards from six sets and fuses them into something both familiar and new. Redbay hops on the pod to ask all his questions about the cube and to suggest some fun additions from All Will the One.

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Seven days later. Ten new entries! Tune in for some great cards in our combined zombie/cupid design challenge!

ChurchWizard

MWB

JamesDaltonBell

Juliet

Redbay

monaters

3smuth

Eshlelim

Wobbles

JBMannon

Hop onto our Discord and get working on your entry for March: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

February and postapocalyptic zombie comas have one thing in common: 28 days! We review your zombie submissions, with potential bonuses of tokens, tribal, and archery! We'll see who pays tribute to Cupid in part one, covering the first half of submissions from:

Sage B

CryptRat

Wraidzel

Dillon

PANOPTES

BulkRare

Grrrbear

Dragon of the West

The second half comes later this week!

Until then, hop onto our Discord and get working on your entry for March: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

It's Cupid month and Juliet is taking us on a deep dive into archery in Magic. What represents archery flavor best? What's the most fun?

Fun Fact: "mechanistic" is another name for slab serifs!

Hop on our Discord and tell us your ideal archers: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

League champ Wraidzel and league finalist 3smuth both jump on the pod. Get to know both of these great designers and go behind the scenes on their entries across the rounds of the challenge. Super fun ep with great guests!

Submit your card for our new challenge, "28 Days Later", in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

3... 2... 1... Baby New Year! All the January children have been born, giving us a whopping 16 "Figure of Destiny" card submissions, all ready to be reviewed. What makes a good one drop? What does the curveout look across three abilities? What is Juliet's "most weird card ever"??

Submit your card for our new challenge, "28 Days Later", in our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

The finals of the Design League are here: design a booster pack for a set themed around the children's board game Candy Land!! We're reviewing the second finalist in this episode, blown out into full Unpacking style. Card by card we speculate on themes, mechanics, and more!

Head to the Discord to find out the winner on Wednesday! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

The finals of the Design League are here: design a booster pack for a set themed around the children's board game Candy Land!! We got a great pack from each finalist. We're giving each submission its own episode, blown out into full Unpacking style. Card by card we speculate on themes, mechanics, and more!

Head to the Discord to find out the winner on Wednesday! https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Phyrexia: All Will Be One includes a single Flashback card, using that mechanic "deciduously". These present-but-not-everywhere mechanics have been normal in commander decks forever, but it's only in the last year or so that standard sets have done this.

Tim lit the beacon looking for someone to geek out on this with and Discord member LudosGD answered the call! We talk through what the current deciduous mechanics guidelines might be and then talk through how those rules apply to a variety of old mechanics.

As usual, the best way to engage with us is through Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

The mother of machines and her armies loom large! We cover what phyrexia did in the past and what new mechanics could be corrupted for their purposes!

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