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Ben Iverach-Brereton

Ben Iverach-Brereton is an avid deck brewer and game designer. There's little he enjoys more than an obscure card and a good pun. You can often see him drafting at his local FNM, or playing a casual game of Commander with one of his 20+ decks.

Rant of Valakut: Mystic Speculation – Reviewing War of the Spark Predictions

Ben Iverach-Brereton
April 15, 2019
Rants of Valakut
Back in January I posted my Mystic Speculation, where I made predictions about War of the Spark. At the time all we had to go on was the name of the set, and even that was brand new information at the... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: A Limited Splash

Ben Iverach-Brereton
April 8, 2019
Rants of Valakut, Uncategorized
I've come to the conclusion that I enjoy drafting sets with Evolving Wilds in them more than the ones without. It took me a while to notice this trend, and even longer to figure out why that is. When ... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Joining the Kitchen Table

Ben Iverach-Brereton
March 25, 2019
Rants of Valakut
My Dungeons & Dragons group has a lot of Magic players in it. It's how I met the group, actually; one of the guys noticed my geeky t-shirt at FNM one day (I think it was my "+20 Shirt of Smiting") and asked... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Two, Blue and Black

Ben Iverach-Brereton
March 10, 2019
Rants of Valakut
The following is an excerpt from the timeshifted archives of The Abbott and Costello Show (Episode 53, "The Gathering"): Costello: So I hear you guys are doing a game night this weekend. Abbott: Tha... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Izzet Any Better?

Ben Iverach-Brereton
February 25, 2019
Rants of Valakut
About two years ago I built a red-blue Commander deck featuring Jori En, Ruin Diver. It focused on casting a flurry of cheap, repeatable instant and sorcery spells to generate tokens, deal damage, and draw extr... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Advice, like Removal, Probably Just Wasted on the Young (Wolf)

Ben Iverach-Brereton
February 11, 2019
Rants of Valakut
In the year 1997, some sound advice was given to that year's graduates in an article by Mary Schmich. It was later set to music by Baz Luhrmann in a song called Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen). The uplifti... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Harmless Hard-Lock

Ben Iverach-Brereton
January 28, 2019
Rants of Valakut
We've seen a bit of talk about Experimental Frenzy as a tool for Storm decks to drill through their library, or for aggro decks to power through into the late game, but I wanted to look at a different use f... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Mystic Speculation – The Planeswalker Set

Ben Iverach-Brereton
January 21, 2019
Rants of Valakut
We don't know much about War of the Spark, the set scheduled for just after Ravnica: Allegiance. What we do know so far is that it will be set on Ravnica but won't focus on the guilds. Based on the ... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Hidden Agenda

Ben Iverach-Brereton
January 7, 2019
Rants of Valakut
I love the Conspiracy card type. I'm really intrigued by the idea of taking an otherwise normal card and making it amazing by changing it ever so slightly. A reduced cost, an increased size, or a new ... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Sci-Fi in Five Cards

Ben Iverach-Brereton
December 24, 2018
Rants of Valakut
#In5Cards Last December I posted a series of word puzzles using Magic cards as clues. I took Christmas movies, songs and stories and described them using the names of exactly five cards. I had a lot fun writin... Read More...
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