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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!

Feb 5, 2025

What is Magic missing? We listened to all of you! This month's challenge was to use a new creature type and we went through all your cards.

Juliet's new game: https://mousewifegames.itch.io/princeton

Moonshot Patreon for Juliet's next project: https://www.patreon.com/c/moonshotnetwork/posts

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Jan 29, 2025

In this episode we learn about Joyride, a bumper car battle race board game. Along the way we brainstorm ideas in Magic inspired by this new game!

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Jan 22, 2025

This week we're in the lab, talking all about cube experiments! Something between a normal limited format and a custom set, a cube is a way to test out all varieties of Magic in just the right conditions. To help him, Tim brings on cube organizer Alex and format mastermind Sam to go through more than a dozen...


Jan 15, 2025

Would you like to listen to two people say the word "Beast" about two hundred times each? We have the episode for you. Diving into "Call the Beast" from Wrenchmar, we talk all about how to package flavor and novelty into a showstopper mechanic. No need to know anything going in, we cover it all!

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Jan 8, 2025

Part of what makes Custom Magic fun is how easy it is to get into. Design a card, show it around, and done! For the New Year, Juliet wanted to tell us all about other ways to get involved in game design as a solo designer. There's so much in this pod!!!

Some of the tools described:

GB Studio