Beacon of Creation Update

All written communication for the podcast is going to be on Discord from now on.  It's just a more robust and community-driven format for what we need. 

You can find it here: https://discord.gg/M5eepQF

If you want to see the current iteration of Castmire, you can check it on Planesculptors.

Beacon of Creation Episode 98 Notes

Design Challenge Due Monday, Nov 25th by 7pm Pacific:


Give us a card a that starts with the word "Dwarven"

Based on this article from 2005:

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/thirty-two-short-columns-about-dwarves-2005-11-21

Beacon of Creation Episode 97 Notes

Design Challenge due November 18th by 7pm Pacific:

Create a "Soul of _____" card for a plane that doesn't have one yet. 

 Here is a list of all of them.

Beacon of Creation Episode 91 Notes

Design Challenge Due October 7th:

Costume Party! Tim had an idea of peppering draftable cards that help enhance the Halloween Cube’s draft strategies with a costume mechanic. Costumes have a head and body piece. Costume pieces are emblems. Your deck can have one head costume piece and one body costume piece.

Be creative with non-tribal archetypes but also remember to not be confusing! For example, Vampire Fangs as a costume piece that helps the lifelink deck may incorrectly signal that Vampires are in black (lifelink is white-black). Maybe. Keep in mind, and with that said, go nuts!

Beacon of Creation Episode 90 Notes

Design challenge due September 30th:

A colored artifact that couldn’t be an enchantment; make sure it’s not an equipment.

Beacon of Creation Episode 89 Notes

Design Challenge Due September 23rd:

Give us a card that would fit in Eldraine.
Feel free to use any of the available mechanics. (Food, Adventure, Adamant)

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Beacon of Creation Episode 88 Notes

Design challenge due September 16:

Design an overpriced card that would fit in a 1997-ish Magic set

Can put it into an existing set, or just imagine a setting that would have fit back then.


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Beacon of Creation Episode 87 Notes

Design challenge due September 9th:

Design something that combines two abilities on one card.

Beacon of Creation Episode 85 Notes

OK, so this one's actually due September 2nd;  we're going to attempt to record at MFVegas, and we won't be going over custom designs, so we're giving an extra week for this one:

Design a shapeshifter or bio-scientist.

Beacon of Creation Episode 84 Notes

This week's design challenge:
Design a commander card for an Energy deck.

Beacon of Creation Episode 83 Notes

New Commander Deck Challenge, due Monday, August 12th by 7pm PST.
-- Should fit in one of the new Commander decks (Morph, Flashback, Populate, Madness)
-- Could be a Commander or just one of the 99

Beacon of Creation Episode 82 Notes

This week's challenge is to design a card to fit the GW archetype in Contenders. The thing is that the GW archetype isn't defined yet. Your archetype has to work with the Contender, but deosn't necessarily need to be synergistic. Here's the GW Contender:

Beacon of Creation Episode 81 Notes

Hey there Beaconeers!  This week's challenge is to make your best Fairy Tale card.  It doesn't have to be Eldraine themed, but it doesn't hurt!

Beacon of Creation Episode 79 Notes

We liked the MH1 design space challenge a lot, and we're going to do an M20 episode next week.
We're also trying out having the design challenge coincide with the show's topic. So, next week we'll be making our own M20 cards, and we want you to as well. A card in M20's design space.


Specifically M20, so potentially using the themes from that set.


No new keywords/etc






Due July 15th by 7pm Pacific.

Beacon of Creation Episode 78 Notes

Next week's design challenge is to make a card in Modern Horizons design space; a card that could've shown up in the set, but didn't.

Email all submissions to cards@beaconofcreation.com

The deadline is 7pm Pacific time on Monday, July 8.

Beacon of Creation Episode 76 Notes

Hey there Beaconeers!

This week's challenge is to make a four colored card for Brad's four colored world.  If you don't know much about it, listen to episodes 75 and 76 to get the rundown.

Your submissions are due by 7pm PST on June 24.

Beacon of Creation Episode 74 Notes

Design challenge due Monday June 10th by 7pm Pacific. You can send your submissions to cards@beaconofcreation.com

Create a card using the Accelerate mechanic.

Accelerate is a an action word with the following rules: The next creature or planeswalker spell you cast costs 1 less to cast. It enters the battelfield with and additional +1/+1 or loyalty counter.

For example, you could have a creature with "When ~ enters the battlefield, accelerate."
 
Remember that all designs are welcome.  They don't need to be perfect.

=Adam

Beacon of Creation Episode 73 Notes

Hey there beaconeers!  Sorry I haven't been posting here during the Ignite the Beacon specials, but we're back to normal now!

Design challenge due Monday, June 3rd by 7pm.

Create the first sliver to appear on Castmire.

Beacon of Creation Episode 68 Notes

Design challenges due Monday, April 29th by 7pm.

Top-Down challenge: Castmire's Buy-a-box promo using a mechanic that's not in the set.

Bottom-up challenge: Design Castmire's dual land cycle.