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Hope you're ready for a jam-packed issue this month! There is a lot to highlight here, especially in regards to Revolution, which just concluded its world championship and freshly rotated! But of course that's not all we have to check out; don't forget to read up on this month's design challenge, project spotlight, and fun article!

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Revolution

• Cybaros Joins Revolution!: Revolution enters its 10th rotation, welcoming Cybaros into the format! See what the set's all about and check out some of the curator's top picks for what they're looking forward to playing.

• Cool Beens Burns Bright at GP Blind Eternities: Last month's GP was Revolution's first ever Pauper Eternal, meaning that all commons in the history of the format were fair game! See what strategies came to the top in this fresh tournament.

• Revolution World Championships III: This Time It's Personal: The Revolution World Championship also concluded this past month, and it was an exciting spectacle; read up on detailed coverage of the matches and its players and see who managed to earn the right to be called Champion!

Events

• BRAININAJAR's Challenge: Reboot: Our special design challenge program presents the winners of last month's challenge, and presents a new challenge for this month!

Spotlight

• Project Spotlight: Pokécube: One of the biggest IP's in the world gets reimagined as magic cards as part of a fun cube experience, designed by triggrhappy0 and DrDubz.

Intrigue

• Colorless as a Sixth Color: See how two different projects have utilized Magic's very own 6th type of mana–colorless–both through failures and success. A great read if you're working with colorless, an actual sixth color, or for those otherwise intrigued!

Thanks to for running last week's contest.

In 2015, Magic Origins brought us an interesting new mechanic: . A creature with renown N gets that many counters the first time it hits a player, and usually unlocks some other ability as well. It was , made interesting board states, has a ton of flavor design space and was just never touched again.

In the years since Origins, we've gotten a trickle of new cards that feature the mechanic ( and ). Your task is to design a new card that uses renown!

This contest will close Friday, May 17th. Submissions will be judged on creativity, flavor, balance. I look forwards to seeing what you all come up with!