Festival of Urbestia

What is FUR?

     Festival of Urbestia is a custom Magic: the Gathering set about a world of beast folk. 

     Lead a legion of wolf knights into battle, bewilder your opponent with fox tricksters, or answer the eternal question: who would win, cats or dogs? 

     Whether you like shards or wedges, the Vibrant mechanic rewards you for playing your favorite three-color archetypes, or go for the throat with Vicious creatures and you're guaranteed to draw blood!

     Follow along as we design FUR week by week, and along the way we'll show you everything you need to do to build your own custom Magic set. We'll be following Mark Rosewater's Nuts & Bolts articles to make this set the same way Wizards does!

  1. Research
  2. Design
    1. Exploratory Design, Pt I
    2. Exploratory Design, Pt II
    3. Vision Design, Pt I: Tribes
    4. Vision Design, Pt II: Set Skeleton
    5. Vision Design, Pt III: Archetypes
    6. Vision Design, Pt IV: Structure
    7. Vision Design, Pt V:  Common Cycles
    8. Vision Design, Pt VI: Set Skeleton Redux 
    9. Card-by-Card Designs, Pt I
    10. Card-by-Card Designs, Pt II
    11. Vision Design, Pt VII: You Can (Not) Restart 
    12. Vision Design, Pt VII: Brave New World
    13. Vision Design, Pt VIII: Top to Bottom
    14. Vision Design, Pt IX: Archetypes
    15. Vision Design, Pt X: The Handoff 
    16. Integration, Pt I: Feedback
    17. Integration, Pt II: Debuting Vicious and Commerce 
    18. Integration, Pt III: Archetypes 
    19. Integration, Pt IV: Uncommons
  3. Creative:
    1. Worldbuilding, Pt I: Tribes
    2. Worldbuilding, Pt II: Even More Tribes
    3. Worldbuilding, Pt III: People, Places, and Things 
    4. Worldbuilding, Pt IV: Building the Actual World 
    5. Worldbuilding, Pt V: The Plot Thickens
    6. Worldbuilding, Pt VI: The Band
    7. Worldbuilding, Pt VII: Call Me Billie Eilish
    8. Worldbuilding, Pt VIII: The Promised Beginning
  4. Files
    1. Set Skeleton (Google Sheets)
    2. Set Skeleton Redux (Google Sheets)
    3. Final Vision Design Set Skeleton
    4. Final Vision Design Card File (Cockatrice File Download)
    5. Set Skeleton w/Uncommons (Google Sheets)


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