Join Reuben Covington and Dan Felder for the twenty-eighth episode of Re-Making Magic, the podcast about game design and custom magic cards.

In this episode:

• We discuss some early Hostile Takeover feedback
• Critique a Card: Oathbound Revenant
• We go in-depth on design pointing
• We discuss the nature of bombs, power level and rarity
• Community Shoutout: Talco's machine generated magic cards

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Blog: remakingmagic.tumblr.com

Reuben CovingtonTwitter: @reubencovingtonEmail: [email protected] Account: Doombringer

Dan FelderEmail: [email protected] Account: Stairc

Join Reuben Covington and Dan Felder for the twenty-seventh episode of Re-Making Magic, the podcast about game design and custom magic cards.

In this episode:

• Critique a Card: Emrakul Devourer of Worlds
• We do Exploratory Design for Battle fo Zendikar
• We Touch on returning sets and player expectations
• We discuss Allies, Eldrazi, Landfall and the potential tone of the world
• Introduce our first public playtest of Hostile Takeover

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Reuben CovingtonTwitter: @reubencovingtonEmail: [email protected] Account: Doombringer

Dan FelderEmail: [email protected] Account: Stairc

Join Reuben Covington and Dan Felder for the twenty-sixth episode of Re-Making Magic, the podcast about game design and custom magic cards.

In this episode:

• We define evergreen mechanics
• Critique a Card: AEther Apparition
• We go in depth with all changes in Mark Rosewater's evergreen eggs and ham article.
• We discuss how we should treat WotC design changes as a community

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Reuben CovingtonTwitter: @reubencovingtonEmail: [email protected] Account: Doombringer

Dan FelderEmail: [email protected] Account: Stairc

Join Reuben Covington and Dan Felder for the twenty-fifth episode of Re-Making Magic, the podcast about game design and custom magic cards.

In this episode:

• Design Challenge Review: Create a Legendary Pheonix continued
• We announce our favourite designs
• We congradulate all of the new designers who submitted.

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Reuben CovingtonTwitter: @reubencovingtonEmail: [email protected] Account: Doombringer

Dan FelderEmail: [email protected] Account: Stairc

Join Reuben Covington and Dan Felder for the twenty-four episode of Re-Making Magic, the podcast about game design and custom magic cards.

In this episode:

• Design Challenge Review: Create a Legendary Pheonix

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Reuben CovingtonTwitter: @reubencovingtonEmail: [email protected] Account: Doombringer

Dan FelderEmail: [email protected] Account: Stairc

Join Reuben Covington and Dan Felder for the twenty-third episode of Re-Making Magic, the podcast about game design and custom magic cards.

In this episode:

• Triple Critique a Card Special:
  • Annoying Turtle
  • Fortune's End
  • Thoughtstorm
• We discuss Rhystic mechanics and their appeal to designers and spikes.
• Reuben gives a review of his most recent playtest of his set, Dreamscape. 
• Design Challenge: Create a Legendary Pheonix

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Reuben CovingtonTwitter: @reubencovingtonEmail: [email protected] Account: Doombringer

Dan FelderEmail: [email protected] Account: Stairc

Join Reuben Covington and Dan Felder for the twenty-second episode of Re-Making Magic, the podcast about game design and custom magic cards.

In this episode:

• We talk about the discussion we generated about bad cards previously
• Dan rants on Dark Souls' and Castlevania's layering and misdirection 
• We discuss the card Squire and how it can be used.
• We talk about the layering in Innistrad's draft enviroment
• Trait Doctoring's design gets discussed in terms of "planting" for future enviorments. 
• We discuss recent playtesting and premonition's use online

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Reuben CovingtonTwitter: @reubencovingtonEmail: [email protected] Account: Doombringer

Dan FelderEmail: [email protected] Account: Stairc

Join Reuben Covington and Dan Felder for the twenty-first episode of Re-Making Magic, the podcast about game design and custom magic cards.

In this episode:

• We discuss our MOBA/mtg format with Champions
• We discuss our playtesting of these Voq and Boros Carry
• We talk about Bad Cards
• We critique the game designers David Sirlin's argument agains bad cards.
• We talk about what good things bad cards do
• Community Shoutout: Deadsands

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Reuben CovingtonTwitter: @reubencovingtonEmail: [email protected] Account: Doombringer

Dan FelderEmail: [email protected] Account: Stairc

Join Reuben Covington and Dan Felder for the twentieth episode of Re-Making Magic, the podcast about game design and custom magic cards.

In this episode:

• We welocme all our new listeners from MTGcast
• We are amazed by the great response to Dan's recent article
• We discuss designing archetypes
• We talk about lychpins and supporting cards
• Discuss the importance of mana curve and commons
• Check out Reuben's Set skeleton/archetype primer
• Talk about the Memoir mechanic in Dreamscape

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Reuben CovingtonTwitter: @reubencovingtonEmail: [email protected] Account: Doombringer

Dan FelderEmail: [email protected] Account: Stairc

Join Reuben Covington and Dan Felder for the nineteenth episode of Re-Making Magic, the podcast about game design and custom magic cards.

In this episode:

• Design Challenge Review: Evis, Executor of Light's second ability
• Talk about Signposting your game design
• Discuss designers "Swimming Upstream" or "Going with the Flow."
• Dan talks about a recent roleplaying session he hosted.
  • Relevant Gamasutra Article
• Design Challenge: MtG MOBA format
  • Create a champion card like those discussed HERE

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Reuben CovingtonTwitter: @reubencovingtonEmail: [email protected] Account: Doombringer

Dan FelderEmail: [email protected] Account: Stairc