Beacon of Creation

Continuing our march to fill up Castmire with sweet cards, we talk about some haunted house tropes and dive into some sweet challenges!

Design challenges, due Feb 10th, 6pm PT:

DC17 "Exit Strategy" - An uncommon showing someone looking for The Exit. DC18 "Referential Treatment" - A card that directly references a character in pop culture.

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The original Goblin King, Jay Zeffren, stops by to talk about GoblinGame and review a bunch of design challenges!

Design challenges, due Feb 3rd, 6pm PT:

DC15: "Resonance Theory" - A common showing off a haunted house trope. Such as: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HauntedHouse DC16: "Goblin King in Exile" - Design a rare goblin lord that you wouldn't be upset drafting early in a set without much goblin support.

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We talk villains and review villain and signpost cards! And what is that shadow gathering among us...

Design challenges, due Jan 27th, 6pm PT:

DC13: "Lord's Command" - Design a white card that is strong in commander. DC14: "Commoner's Disobedience" - Design a black card that is strong in pauper.

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Larcent joins the podcast to discuss Theros: Beyond Death!

Design challenges, due Jan 20th, 6pm:

DC11: "Nefarious Plan" - A legendary monocolored villain and their signature spell. DC12: "Sign Language" - An uncommon multicolored draft signpost card.

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Adam, Bradley and Tim each bring a cycle to talk about and then review DC10, which is about haunting cycles in Castmire.

No design challenge this week. We're saving lots of time to talk about Theros: Beyond Death next week!

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Ada, Bradley and Tim ring in the new year with three more Castmire challenges.

Next week's design challenge is: DC10 - "Spin Cycle" Make a cycle of commons with a haunting theme.

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Bradley and Tim invite early Castmire star Markus Leben, AKA @Mark_Confidant, to discuss the second batch of design challenges!

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2:58 DC4 - "Where Am I?"

31:36 DC5 - "Who is That?"

1:04:32 DC6 - "What is This?"

1:28:28 - Next Week's Design Challenges

We discuss all the hot topics from Castmire's relaunch and review entries for the first three design challenges!

3:54 Castmire Hot Topics

17:51 DC1 - "Common Sense" Discussion

35:57 DC2 - "Uncommon Goods" Discussion

56:05 DC3 - "Rare Character" Discussion

1:19:02 New Design Challenges:

DC4 - "Where Am I?" - Make a card with the flavor of the player investigating where they are.

DC5 - "Who is That?" - Make a card that uses an unusual creature type.

DC6 - "What is This?" - Make a card with the flavor of an improvised or discovered spell or piece of equipment.

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Castmire, the custom set born along with Beacon of Creation, returns! We invite Trevor Cashmore, the number one Castmire fan, on the podcast to talk about all the sweet new stuff planned for the set's relaunch!

DC1: "Common Sense" - Make a common card that could show up on Castmire, but not other plane in Magic.

DC2: "Uncommon Goods" - Make an uncommon artifact, enchantment, or land that ties into the "interplanar menagerie" flavor of Castmire.

DC3: "Rare Character" - Make a rare creature, either native to Castmire or left behind from one of the portals.

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Tim's Contenders set had an update recently and we cover the changes!

Next week's challenge: GET HYPE for next week's 100th episode!

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