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April 11, 2020 Episode 117.5 Visit Deep Drive
The missing middle of episode 117 is here! We lovingly tear into all of the Visit alternative ideas for more than an hour!

Time Warp sound effect by Mike Koenig

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1 hr 19 min
April 08, 2020 Episode 117 - Castmire Balance Tweaks
We review your submissions for tweaks to Castmire cards after the Milestone 1 playtest. A second, monster episode about Visit is coming later this week!

DC31 "Haunter" - Design a card that includes haunting a card in a way that makes it better.

DC32 "Haunted" - Design a card that rewards haunting.

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27 min
April 01, 2020 Episode 116 - Castmire Playtest Feedback!
Our weekend playtest with the Castmire community generated tons of data! We go over the results of the surveys, which leads into lots of little discussions on cards in the set.

The design challenges this week do some new things, so be sure to listen to the episode for more info!

Design Challenge 29 "Tweak the Numbers" - Change one number on a card in Castmire. (ex. increase/decrease power or toughness or casting cost)

Design Challenge 30 "Revisit" - Pitch a different version of Visit. This will be tried out in the set as an alternate to current Visit.

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1 hr
March 25, 2020 Episode 115 - End of the Hallway w/Juliet
G-Host Juliet joins us as we talk Castmire playtesting!!! Get excited!!! The fun starts this Saturday! We also review some chunky white creatures and some a-Door-able green rares.

There's no card design challenge this week. Instead, the challenge is to submit flavor text for a card in the Castmire set!

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1 hr 18 min
March 18, 2020 Episode 114 - Filling Holes w/ Mark A.
Supremely helpful Discord member Mark A (what does the A even stand for????) joins us to review some of the last few commons for Castmire Milestone 1! It's almost time to playtest all of our community's hard work!

Next week's Design Challenges:

DC27 "Big and Scar(ed/y)!!" - Design a large white uncommon creature with a startle ability.

DC28 "Plant Food for Thought" - Design a green rare or mythic rare to finish our rare slots!

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58 min
March 11, 2020 Episode 113 - Home Stretch
With the end of Castmire Milestone 1 approaching, we review some of the remaining keywords and costs that each color are missing.

Next week's Design Challenges:

DC25 "Black Hole" - Make a black common based on what we just talked about.

DC26 "With Sugar" - Make a common nonblack card that is a french vanilla.

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52 min
March 04, 2020 Episode 112 - We're Gonna be Rich!
Bradley reports back from Reno! Then, Design Challenge reviews where we discover items behind doors and spells that were inside us all along.

Next week's Design Challenges:

DC23 "Home Renovation" - Rework a previous submission to Castmire that didn't make it into the file. Bonus points for reworking someone else's card!

DC24 "New Wing Under Construction" - Make a new card that works well with an existing card in the Castmire file.

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Creeping Background and Tolling Bell by Daniel Simion Thunder by Mike Koenig
1 hr 23 min
February 26, 2020 Episode 111 - Seek and Hide
Following our new listener episode last week, we switch back into going deep on listener design challenge submissions! We've got equipment-loving blue creatures and deadly hexproof creatures to review.

Next week's Design Challenges:

DC21 "Look What I Found" - An equipment card with visit.

DC22 "Look What I Learned" - A big spell that someone learned in Castmire.

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58 min
February 19, 2020 Episode 110 - Listen To This First!
New to the podcast or new to custom Magic cards? This episode is designed to get you up to speed! Juliet Louis joins us to help describe what it's like to make your own Magic card sets. We also introduce you to Castmire, the spooky mansion plane.

DC19 "Suit Up" - A common blue creature that cares about equipment. DC20 "Did you see that?" - A green or multicolored hexproof creature with a hard-to-see flavor.

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32 min
February 12, 2020 Episode 109 - Magic Camp and Flavor Challenges
Bradley grills Tim about his Magic-packed weekend, talking about a wide variety of Magic formats. Then the two hosts discuss cards themed around The Exit and a bunch of super-funny cards referencing real world characters.

No design challenges this week to make room for a big Castmire recap next week!

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1 hr 35 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!