Hey Artisans! Click through to see this weekend's design challenge. Your mission is to design a custom magic card that follows the guide...

This is a bad idea for a mechanic, but it's still kind of cool.

For a bottom-up design, this card went through a crazy number of templating iterations. I knew what I wanted it to do, but not how to do th...

Bear with Set's Mechanic  has become such a design cliche that it's now an official joke card. But it's a cliche for a reason. S...

Shift  is  Eternal's  suspend  mechanic, simplified in some ways and… weird in others. Introduced in the sixth full set, Dark Frontier ...

So a project I've been working on (off and on) is an X-Men/Kaladesh fanfic mashup non-set . Currently, I'm trying to crank out a h...

Spark is Eternal's bloodthirst / spectacle mechanic, opened up to do anything when your opponent has taken damage. What it does most ...

Click through to see the illustration and design requirements for your single card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrants...

Eternal  just previewed another exciting keyword from the upcoming set:  Amplify . It's a novel new mechanic that… just kidding. It...

Cool Card Design of the Day Here's an idea I explored two seasons back. It started off called Highlander, with the intention that it wo...

Cool Card Design of the Day During GDS3's first challenge, I came up with an idea for Imps that I ended up discarding because, after ...

Cool Card Design of the Day Way back when (circa GDS2) I explored the idea of new types of mana. It started with snow mana, flitted briefly...

Cool Card Design of the Day For the mechanic challenge in GDS3, I built and tested a number of mechanics. Slick was the last of my top choi...

Cool Card Design of the Day For the mechanic challenge in GDS3, I built and tested a number of mechanics. Jury-Rig was my next choice. You ...

Cool Card Design of the Day For the mehanic challenge in GDS3, I built and tested a number of mechanics. Ride came the closest to making th...

Hey, Artisans! Click through to see this weekend's design challenge, submissions due Monday morning.

Greetings, acolyte. You wanted to know how to defeat all those who oppose you? You must shed all reluctance to spill blood. Mercy and hesita...

Cool Card Design of the Day 1/29/2018  - It's been almost two months since I've shared a card design with you as we've been pre...

Cool Card Design of the Day 10/10/2017 - Here's a mechanic that flavorfully rewards you for playing with a lot of scry.

Click through to see the illustration and design requirements for your single  card submission, due Monday morning. Every submission warrant...