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...
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...
