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November 05, 2025 Rhoxtober Challenge Review
Spooky season meets rhinoceroses in our monthly challenge! We got your best card ideas submitted throughout the month and we cover the entries in this episode. Lots of great designs, plus Juliet's twist on anagram card names!

Charity stream for Moonshot this weekend: https://www.twitch.tv/moonshotnetwork

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Intro music by Dee Culp
1 hr 23 min
October 29, 2025 Back to Battlebond! Bradley Brainstorming Bonanza
This week we're headed joining heads to brainstorm a ton of new ideas for 2HG draft! The episode starts with a recap of Battlebond along with cracking a sample pack. Once the table it set, we settle in to the big brainstorming session, sharing over a dozen ideas for a Battlebond followup.

Brad's stream: https://twitch.tv/bradleyrose

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Intro music by Dee Culp
1 hr 17 min
October 22, 2025 Studying the State of Design 2025
This week Gabe's bringing the Mark Rosewater's State of Design 2025 article to the pod. We've picked our favorite points from the article and talk through the implications and lessons. Some of these sets aren't that old but feel ancient now! It was fun to re-live these sets and find some takeaways now that we have some distance.

The article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/state-of-design-2025

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Intro music by Dee Culp
53 min
October 15, 2025 High Octane Cube Selesnya w/zurishmi
This week we're putting aside our usual design goals and focusing on a new one: creating cards good enough to hang in a high powered cube! Selesnya hasn't gotten as much love as the other color pairs in high power formats, but our community is here to the rescue. Local cube organizer Eric is back on the pod to evaluate all of your great submissions to this tough assignment!

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Intro music by Dee Culp
1 hr 43 min
October 08, 2025 Hit the Books Challenge Review
This challenge review dives into "spellbook" technology from Arena. What cool cards can you design when that card has access to three other cards? We got a ton of submissions again, so you'll learn all about the possible tech!

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1 hr 45 min
October 01, 2025 Design Crossover - Once Upon a Galaxy w/Alexis Janson!
Big episode! Alexis Janson breaks down their game and helps brainstorm how to steal some of that technology for our own Magic designs. Alexis was a Beacon host way back in the day, so you know they're ready to go deep on the design and ideas behind Galaxy.

Check out the game: https://galaxy.fun

The dev twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/playgalaxygame

Yukmouth streams the game daily: https://www.twitch.tv/yukmouth

Alexis's bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/alexisjanson.com

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1 hr 38 min
September 30, 2025 Moxtober 2025 Primer
Kayiu and Juliet walk through the basics of Moxtober 2025, the yearly community custom Magic event!

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9 min
September 24, 2025 Favorite Flavor - Spiders w/Gabe Lincoln
Juliet is joined by Gabe Lincoln to ask to borrow a cup of one of Magic's oldest flavors, Giant non-Lizard-Wizard non-Hero-Villain Spiders. How do the arachnids that predate the keywording of reach differ from the ones that come after? What is the anatomy of a two-color gold Spider? Why does Ravnica get the most Giant Spiders of them all?

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52 min
September 17, 2025 Through the Omenpaths Re-Flavoring
Wizards is releasing Through the Omenpaths, a full reflavoring of their Spider-Man set. That got us curious how the existing Universes Beyond sets could be redone too! Khord jumps on the pod as we tackle cards from LotR, 40k, Doctor Who, and more.

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49 min
September 10, 2025 Objection Challenge Review, Part 2
Our packed court of Objection! submissions wraps up this week with another packed ep full of great cards! This wide open challenge asked submitters to design a mechanic called "Objection" and we got SO MANY versions. Listen in for our thoughts on all these cards, including three more new submitters!

Submissions from: Xena, MWB, JamesDaltonBell, Juliet, Keith^3, Pat, Inte, Selkie, kuyashiiPlays, Mark Confidant, and Redbay

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1 hr 4 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!