Hey there Beaconeers!
Challenges due Monday, July 2:
Host/Augment: A planeswalker from a specific plane and race that doesn't
match that race's color(s)/ must use transform to turn into a
non-planeswalker
Worldbuilding: A small creature from the established Castmire creature grid (found in the sidebar) of each color.
Challenges due Monday July 9:
Host/Augment: Design three cards that care about being cast in sequence / must have an ability outside the battlefield.
Worldbuilding: Write flavor text for cards that portray three different aspects of Castmire.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Friday, June 22, 2018
Beacon of Creation Episode 27 Notes
Hey there Beaconeers!
Quick update to the the blog: I added a sidebar for important link suck as the Creature Grid and a full version of the Castmire set file.
Challenges due by Monday, June 25:
Host/Augment: A common non-aura enchantment/ must cost only one mana.
Worldbuilding: Vote on the Castmire Twist! (See sidebar for link)
Challenges due Monday, July 2:
Host/Augment: A planeswalker from a specific plane and race that doesn't match that race's color(s)/ must use transform to turn into a non-planeswalker
Worldbuilding: A small creature from the established Castmire creature grid (found in the sidebar) of each color.
If you're interested in seeing all the cards made for this week's challenges, (vanilla permutations and weird dwarf) you can get the MSE file here.
Quick update to the the blog: I added a sidebar for important link suck as the Creature Grid and a full version of the Castmire set file.
Challenges due by Monday, June 25:
Host/Augment: A common non-aura enchantment/ must cost only one mana.
Worldbuilding: Vote on the Castmire Twist! (See sidebar for link)
Challenges due Monday, July 2:
Host/Augment: A planeswalker from a specific plane and race that doesn't match that race's color(s)/ must use transform to turn into a non-planeswalker
Worldbuilding: A small creature from the established Castmire creature grid (found in the sidebar) of each color.
If you're interested in seeing all the cards made for this week's challenges, (vanilla permutations and weird dwarf) you can get the MSE file here.
Friday, June 15, 2018
Beacon of Creation Episode 26 Notes
Hey there Beaconeers,
Our creature grid is done!
You can check out the final version here.
When designing creatures in the future, remember to stay within the creature grid as much as possible. They are some exceptions, but moving forward, these are going to be the basic creature types we use a lot of.
I also forgot to post the style guide submissions from last week (sorry!) Check the bottom of last week's post for those links.
Challenges:
Due Monday, July 18 by 7pm Pacific time:
Host + Augment Challenge
Multicolor Dwarf with no power or toughness that cares about precombat and/or postcombat main phases that is from a set that’s a top-down Viking world with black-aligned Gods.
- Can use only a portion of these, but more challenging, the more restrictions you decide to use
Castmire Worldbuilding Challenge:
Design a vanilla creature, a virtual vanilla creature, and French vanilla creature, and a virtual French vanilla creature; all set in the world of Castmire.
- Haunt, investigate, and detain are the keywords we are using
Due Monday, July 25th by 7pm Pacific time:
Host + Augment
Host: Brad’s, using a suggestion from Twitter:
From Trevor Cashmore (@InanimateGames, of Goblin Artisans)
“A common non-Aura enchantment.”
Augment: Adam: Must cost only one mana
Castmire Worldbuilding Challenge:
Vote on the twist you want to see in Castmire here.
Here are the cards done by Rifken on the last episode. I changed some of them for clarity and rules interactions and added names, creatures types, etc for the incomplete ones. If you remember what challenges they are for, let us know!
Bonus! Here's the full card that I did this week - with art!
Our creature grid is done!
You can check out the final version here.
When designing creatures in the future, remember to stay within the creature grid as much as possible. They are some exceptions, but moving forward, these are going to be the basic creature types we use a lot of.
I also forgot to post the style guide submissions from last week (sorry!) Check the bottom of last week's post for those links.
Challenges:
Due Monday, July 18 by 7pm Pacific time:
Host + Augment Challenge
Multicolor Dwarf with no power or toughness that cares about precombat and/or postcombat main phases that is from a set that’s a top-down Viking world with black-aligned Gods.
- Can use only a portion of these, but more challenging, the more restrictions you decide to use
Castmire Worldbuilding Challenge:
Design a vanilla creature, a virtual vanilla creature, and French vanilla creature, and a virtual French vanilla creature; all set in the world of Castmire.
- Haunt, investigate, and detain are the keywords we are using
Due Monday, July 25th by 7pm Pacific time:
Host + Augment
Host: Brad’s, using a suggestion from Twitter:
From Trevor Cashmore (@InanimateGames, of Goblin Artisans)
“A common non-Aura enchantment.”
Augment: Adam: Must cost only one mana
Castmire Worldbuilding Challenge:
Vote on the twist you want to see in Castmire here.
Here are the cards done by Rifken on the last episode. I changed some of them for clarity and rules interactions and added names, creatures types, etc for the incomplete ones. If you remember what challenges they are for, let us know!
Bonus! Here's the full card that I did this week - with art!
Friday, June 8, 2018
Beacon of Creation Episode 25 Notes
Hey there Beaconeers!
This week's challenge (due Monday June 11 at 7pm Pacific):
Host/Augment:
Something silver-bordered that isn't dice rolling that uses twobrid for a good reason. (Thanks to Chris Mooney and Ryan Siegel-Stechler)
Worldbuilding:
Just complete all four sections of the Creature Grid survey from last week! (There are four different links, be sure to click them all!)
Two weeks from now (due Monday June 18 at 7pm Pacific):
Host/Augment:
submitted by a bunch of people on twitter: Design a dwarf that has no power or toughness that cares about precombat or postcombat main phase from a top-down Viking world with black-aligned gods/must be multi-colored, in the correct colors for a dwarf. (Editor's note: Seriously, Brad?)
Worldbuilding:
Design a vanilla creature (no rules text), design a virtual vanilla creature (after the first turn, is effectively a vanilla creature), design a french vanilla (creature with only one or more key words, and no other abilites), and design a virtual french vanilla.
(edited) I forgot to add a link to the styleguide pictures! We got two submissions:
Here is one from Bill French.
And here is the second one from James Gover.
This week's challenge (due Monday June 11 at 7pm Pacific):
Host/Augment:
Something silver-bordered that isn't dice rolling that uses twobrid for a good reason. (Thanks to Chris Mooney and Ryan Siegel-Stechler)
Worldbuilding:
Just complete all four sections of the Creature Grid survey from last week! (There are four different links, be sure to click them all!)
Two weeks from now (due Monday June 18 at 7pm Pacific):
Host/Augment:
submitted by a bunch of people on twitter: Design a dwarf that has no power or toughness that cares about precombat or postcombat main phase from a top-down Viking world with black-aligned gods/must be multi-colored, in the correct colors for a dwarf. (Editor's note: Seriously, Brad?)
Worldbuilding:
Design a vanilla creature (no rules text), design a virtual vanilla creature (after the first turn, is effectively a vanilla creature), design a french vanilla (creature with only one or more key words, and no other abilites), and design a virtual french vanilla.
(edited) I forgot to add a link to the styleguide pictures! We got two submissions:
Here is one from Bill French.
And here is the second one from James Gover.
Friday, June 1, 2018
Beacon of Creation Episode 24 Notes
Hey there beaconeers!
First things first: We have a new way to vote! I made four separate surveys where you can vote for the creatures types that will be the main ones in Castmire.
The links are here:
White
Blue
Black
Red/Green
Some notes: I had to do four separate surveys because the service wants to charge if I do more than ten questions at a time. Luckily, this time it's an easy fix, but we will have to be careful in the future to not have too many votes each time. Also, the Red and Green ones are together because green has no fliers and red has no small flyers, so it only takes up 8 spaces for both!
Next week's challenges (due Monday, June 4 at 7pm Pacific) :
Host/Augment:
Two colorless creatures that "partner with" each other.
Worldbuilding:
A style guide for the plane. (Thanks to Jonanthan Woodward)
Two weeks from now (due Monday June 11 at 7pm Pacific):
Host/Augment:
Something silver-bordered that isn't dice rolling that uses twobrid for a good reason. (Thanks to Chris Mooney and Ryan Siegel-Stechler)
Worldbuilding:
Just do the survey at the top of the page!
Bonus!
Here are renders of all the cards that were submitted for this week's wordbuilding challenge.
First things first: We have a new way to vote! I made four separate surveys where you can vote for the creatures types that will be the main ones in Castmire.
The links are here:
White
Blue
Black
Red/Green
Some notes: I had to do four separate surveys because the service wants to charge if I do more than ten questions at a time. Luckily, this time it's an easy fix, but we will have to be careful in the future to not have too many votes each time. Also, the Red and Green ones are together because green has no fliers and red has no small flyers, so it only takes up 8 spaces for both!
Next week's challenges (due Monday, June 4 at 7pm Pacific) :
Host/Augment:
Two colorless creatures that "partner with" each other.
Worldbuilding:
A style guide for the plane. (Thanks to Jonanthan Woodward)
Two weeks from now (due Monday June 11 at 7pm Pacific):
Host/Augment:
Something silver-bordered that isn't dice rolling that uses twobrid for a good reason. (Thanks to Chris Mooney and Ryan Siegel-Stechler)
Worldbuilding:
Just do the survey at the top of the page!
Bonus!
Here are renders of all the cards that were submitted for this week's wordbuilding challenge.
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