Rant of Valakut: Vorel of the Hull Clade Ben Iverach-Brereton February 6, 2017 Rants of Valakut 3 It's remarkable just how many abilities there are that use +1/+1 counters: Outlast, Support, Devour, Evolve, Megamorph, Graft. There are so many more, and that's not even counting abilities like Proliferate or ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Wake Up Ben Iverach-Brereton January 23, 2017 Rants of Valakut I like to always have a standard legal deck built. I'm not looking to win a pro tour with it, but it is nice to have it on hand for the occasional pickup game; most people pack a standard deck with them when th... Read More...
Rants of Valakut: Completely Mana Screwed Ben Iverach-Brereton January 9, 2017 Rants of Valakut 2 We've all been there. You draw your opening hand, full of spells and potential, but you realize to your dismay that there are no lands. We call it getting mana screwed, and it sucks, but depending on your deck,... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Fallen Ideal Ben Iverach-Brereton December 26, 2016 Rants of Valakut 2 There are some cards that seem to do everything you want them to do in your deck. Fallen Ideal, a black aura from Time Spiral and an homage to the card Fallen Angel, enchants a creature and gives it both flying... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Isperia the Inscrutable Ben Iverach-Brereton December 12, 2016 Rants of Valakut 2 When a deck isn't working it can be hard to pinpoint exactly why. With my Isperia the Inscrutable commander deck the problem largely involved the costs of the cards I was including. When I first built the deck,... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Ulvenwald Mysteries Ben Iverach-Brereton November 28, 2016 Rants of Valakut I've been quite impressed by Ulvenwald Mysteries, a 3 cost green enchantment from Shadows over Innistrad. While I haven't seen it in Commander yet, I saw it a fair bit in draft, and the amount of work it put in... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Oona’s Grace Ben Iverach-Brereton November 14, 2016 Rants of Valakut When I first saw Oona's Grace I was intrigued. Here was an Instant that drew a card and could be recast multiple times from my graveyard by discarding a land and paying its casting cost again; an old ability ca... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Episode 2 Ben Iverach-Brereton November 1, 2016 Rants of Valakut Several years ago, some co-workers and I took part in a deck building challenge: to build 'Peasant' Commander decks that contained no Rare or Mythic Rare cards. This rarity restriction included the Legendary Cr... Read More...
Rants of Valakut: Episode 1 Ben Iverach-Brereton October 15, 2016 Rants of Valakut Of all the really sweet cards that came out of Shadows over Innistrad, There was one card in particular that I needed to get my hands on, and it’s probably not what you would have expected. No, as cool as ... Read More...
Ben Iverach-Brereton Researcher Bio Ben Iverach-Brereton October 10, 2016 Ben Iverton The door to this dimly lit wing of the base is slightly off its hinges; from what you've heard of Ben, the inhabitant here, that seems fitting. As you step into the room you see cards piled everyw... Read More...
