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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!

Jan 30, 2023

The finals of the Design League are here: design a booster pack for a set themed around the children's board game Candy Land!! We got a great pack from each finalist. We're giving each submission its own episode, blown out into full Unpacking style. Card by card we speculate on themes, mechanics, and more!

Head to the...


Jan 18, 2023

The mother of machines and her armies loom large! We cover what phyrexia did in the past and what new mechanics could be corrupted for their purposes!

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Oct 26, 2022

Moxtober is finishing up and we're highlighting a bunch of special projects that go beyond the base "prompt a day" style submissions:

MWB's Classic Movie Monsters

Dillion's Legends reborn

Bradley's Chimaera deck

LudosGD's illustrated story

Loreley Weisel-Librizzi's twitter-size planeswalker stories.

Keep the Moxtober...


Jun 1, 2022

Tim and Markus go through your submissions to the Name Inverter challenge! We read, behold, channel and traverse a baker's dozen of piping hot cards. 

You may submit a card to our new When Pigs Fly challenge on Discord: https://discord.gg/t88Vpwh


May 25, 2022

Juliet and Kayiu have seen exciting sets under the auspices of Old, New, and Borrowed, so today they check out Something Blue with the Deep Blue Cube by Timespiraled! While there they discuss the fundamental nature of color, rarity, and draft archetypes, and debate how good Delusions of Mediocrity can be in a world of...