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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: 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...

Rant of Valakut: Attack of the Dreadhorde

Ben Iverach-Brereton
June 3, 2019
Rants of Valakut
This week I finished my latest Horde Magic deck and rules: Attack of the Dreadhorde. Horde Magic is a fully cooperative way of playing Magic: the Gathering. The players all work together to defeat a common e... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: Yisan Records presents – Scoop

Ben Iverach-Brereton
May 20, 2019
Rants of Valakut
Rolling Stoneforge Magazine and Yisan Records, the teams who brought you The Sounds of the Sea and The Invasion Soundtrack, are joining forces once again for another peek into their music archives.* This wee... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: The Aristocrat and the Pauper (Part 2)

Ben Iverach-Brereton
May 13, 2019
Rants of Valakut
(If you missed Part 1 of The Aristocrat and the Pauper, you can read it here.) Looking over what I had put together for my Aristocrats deck in Pauper, I still felt like I was missing something. I stepped... Read More...

Rant of Valakut: The Aristocrat and the Pauper (Part 1)

Ben Iverach-Brereton
May 6, 2019
Rants of Valakut
Pauper players are everywhere these days, and I'm excited. I've always wanted to get into the format, and my local game store runs pretty regular Pauper events. I've had a lot of fun watching content ... Read More...

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...
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