Beacon of Creation

The Scholar of Segue joins the pod this week to talk through game design goals for 2022. We talk about all phases of making games, from testing to layout to printing!

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New Year, new stuff!! Adam and Tim make some guesses on the 2022 Magic release slate, then choose sides on a bunch of predictions! Check our twitter and vote for who you agree with: @magicdesigncast

Our wave of Build a Guild content crests with a big discussion with "the Guildmaster" Kayiu!

We promise we will eventually release non-Guild content in the new year! :) See you then!!!

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Our Build a Guild challenge got so big we filled almost a month! We review the last crop of submissions. I hope you enjoy!

MonoWhiteBorder - GW - Exile Matters

James Gover - UG - untap ramp and syncs

Perryk - BG - 5 Color Ramp

Brad - UR - "Put Cards on the Bottom of your Library"

Wobbles - RW - Lands Fall Apart

Kayiu - UG - Enchantments & +1/+1 Counters

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The dark middle chapter of our Build a Guild challenge! We got so many we made three eps of it. This ep has:

Justnigel - RW Nostalgic Hero

Leem - RG - Green Red Dragons.

Romacchino13 - UB - Return to Hand And Discard

Craftedlavaistrue - UB - saboteur matters

C2H6 - RB - Cheap (Low MV) Reanimation

Bonus Kayiu - BR - Multiple Activated Abilities

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Our Build a Guild challenge, full of your super sweet archetype ideas, gets reviewed! We got so many we're splitting it into three eps. This ep has:

MBTree - BG - Deathtouch + Morbid

Juliet - RW - "1 Damage" Matters

Larcent - UB - Artifact Scavengers

Ian - WU - Aura Value

Dillon BW "not quite there" legend buff

Bonus Kayiu UW Untaps-Outside-Of-Untap-Step!

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With Adam out, MonoWhiteBorder AKA Peter jumps on to Make it More Magical!

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Upshift or downshift? We play a game where we start with a card, then either upshift or downshift it to a new rarity!

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We review an amazing SIXTEEN submissions to our "Friends and Family" challenge. We asked for hybrid Red/White rares and got more submissions than there are existing cards! Adam saves the best for last and Tim gets into a tribal card.

Check out our "Build a Guild" challenge too, where you combine multiple gold cards across Magic history to form a new archetype. Details in the episode!

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We're tackling "salty" Commander cards this week! Finding usable inspiration from some of the most oppressive cards around. A tough tasks makes for a long episode!

Cards discussed:

Stasis Jokulhaups Narset, Parter of Veils The Tabernacle of Pendrell Vale Extra turns cards Rhystic Study Narset, Enlightened Master

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