Rant of Valakut: A World Without the Faithless (Part 3) Ben Iverach-Brereton October 14, 2019 Rants of Valakut, Uncategorized Are you digging for answers, or maybe just digging for the beginning of the article? Draw these two links, then discard two cards: A World Without the Faithless - Part 1 and Part 2 It has come down ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: A World Without the Faithless (Part 2) Ben Iverach-Brereton September 30, 2019 Rants of Valakut Did you miss part 1? Don't lose faith! You can find it here. Most of the options to replace Faithless Looting we looked at last time were instant or sorcery spells, with a couple of exceptions. As it... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: A World Without the Faithless (Part 1) Ben Iverach-Brereton September 16, 2019 Rants of Valakut So, Faithless Looting got banned in Modern. I think it's fair to say in hindsight that the card was just too powerful and that it warped the format around it. While it did enable a variety of decks, ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: A Keyword Workshop Ben Iverach-Brereton September 2, 2019 Rants of Valakut A keyword is an easy shorthand that lets a player quickly learn what a new card does at a glance: "I've seen First Strike before, so I know what it means when I see it on a new card." As long as the keyword i... Read More...
Rant of Valakut – Modern Flux Channeler Storm Ben Iverach-Brereton August 19, 2019 Rants of Valakut There's no shortage of Storm decks in Magic. The idea of casting a flurry of spells in a single turn is remarkably popular. It doesn't matter what format it is, if there are enough cheap spells that d... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: The Peasants of Scarzam and Gix Ben Iverach-Brereton August 5, 2019 Rants of Valakut Way back in ancient times, when Rants of Valakut was just starting, I wrote about my Peasant Commander deck. The deck was a labour of love, built entirely out if commons and uncommons that I had either drafted ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Modern Vesperlark Reanimator Ben Iverach-Brereton July 29, 2019 Rants of Valakut I may be overly excited by Vesperlark. I don't get this excited about a new card very often, but something in my brain latched onto this scaled-down Reveillark and won't let go. The gears in my head began turni... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Pauper Pollenbright Stompy Ben Iverach-Brereton July 15, 2019 Rants of Valakut I'm not sure what inspired me, but recently I got an idea to make a Pauper deck around Pollenbright Druid and Travel Preparations. The idea was simple enough: get +1/+1 counters on my creatures, then ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Delver Grow meets the Horizon Ben Iverach-Brereton July 1, 2019 Rants of Valakut It seems every deck got new toys in Modern Horizons, and my Simic Delver deck is no exception. There are new lands, new counterspells and new creatures in the set to consider. Plus, there's a whole new metagame... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Designing the Dreadhorde Ben Iverach-Brereton June 17, 2019 Rants of Valakut This article assumes you're already at least somewhat familiar with my other Horde decks: The Eldrazi Horde Horde of the Lich Lord Attack of the Dreadhorde Attack of the Dreadhorde is my thi... Read More...
