Beacon of Creation

We've got another classic custom set this week, but with a twist. After diving into the history of Wild West set Lorado, we also look into a new project making Jumpstart packs with that set.

https://www.planesculptors.net/set/lorado

Ancestral's site is https://mtg.design

Ancestral used https://www.drivethrucards.com to print Lorado cards.

We've got two primo Alara experts on the podcast this week and we're designing cards! Mako, creator of the Alara custom set, puts Tim and Scribbl to the test with five design prompts. Bant redemption? Stealing houses in Unx?? Complicated block triggers???

Find more of Mako and Scribbl's work on these Discord servers:

MSE Modern: https://discord.gg/PeUkAfDP9A

Magic Set Editor: https://discord.gg/b6DGJPMB29

Also find Alara here: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/alara

You have our permission to enjoy all these sweet "may" cards! All of them provide a choice within their rules text. Join Tim and Markus in considering all the different wrinkles to these choices.

You may submit a card to our new Name Inverter challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Juliet and Kayiu continue their stay on a borrowed plane: ALARA by Mako! While there they debate who the most iconic planeswalker from Alara is, the logistics of how Grixis as a setting even works, limited bombs and constructed staples, and a broken card that's still fairer than Noble Hierarch.

Check out the preview articles for ALARA at: https://magicseteditor.boards.net/thread/1360/alara-maelstrom-masters

https://www.planesculptors.net/set/alara

Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Juliet and Kayiu planeswalk into something borrowed: the inimitable ALARA by Mako! While there they check out some of the best documentation in all of custom set design, Encouraging combinations of flavor Tethered to mechanics, and how bottom-up sets can become top-down when they're returned to.

Check out the preview articles for ALARA at: https://magicseteditor.boards.net/thread/1360/alara-maelstrom-masters

https://www.planesculptors.net/set/alara

Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

We challenged you all to give us your best "fool" cards. Check out the second half of the review where we get fully bamboozled.

Cards from: Juliet, Larcent, Bradley Rose, Wobbles, Home Slice, Redbay, Craftedlavaistrue, Iemcd, Bracsonian, jamesGover

Submit your card to our May Powers challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

It's fool or be fooled for Tim and Markus as they review your submissions to the April Fools challenge! This part covers these submissions:

- kuyashiiPlays - BoofTroupe - Dillon - Tahanu - underFlorence - Thesixthroc - MonoWhiteBorder

Future eps reviewing the rest of the challenge come soon!

Submit your card to our May Powers challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Returning guest Larcent shares his progress developing a set about changing weather. Each kind of weather has a material effect on the game and picking the right weather is a challenge. The set's other mechanics also have some cool ties to that central theme.

Check out the set here: https://www.planesculptors.net/set/storms-of-yerzivan

Jump into the discussion on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

Castmire, our community developed set, is resuming development and we've got a handy introduction to get you excited! This is a great chance to get involved in the set.

Jump into the discussion on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh

This week our guests are given a custom Commander and have to pick reprints and design new cards for that Commander's precon! Brewer MonoWhiteBorder and long-ago returning guest Gaby team up to crack "Roose, Waste Manager".

Share your ideas for Roose on our Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh