CCDD 020419 - Goblin Mail Carrier

So we did the Goblin Game a couple weeks ago on Twitter. The first round every year is to design a common Goblin, and this year I offered up this art:

Lessons from the Exam

Lessons from the Exam
By Jim Harbor

Welcome Artisans, I hope I find you well. The GDS3 has stoked a fire under the custom magic community and I am glad to see it making all of us better designers, regardless of how well we placed. In the spirit of that, I am going to take a look at some of the trickier questions from the GDS3 exam. Instead of looking at just the right answer, I’m going to break down exactly what WOTC was testing; what they see as the signs of a good designer. Hopefully the takeaway from these questions will help us all tune up our design skills.

CCDD 01312018 - Junkyard Engineer and Plague Doctor

I was 100% positive that Junkyard Engineer was a buildaround uncommon. It had all the hallmarks of one - it was gold, it was good under limited circumstances. I was positive that I got that one right. Then I mocked it up.