Rant of Valakut: A Valorous Update Ben Iverach-Brereton May 23, 2022 Rants of Valakut The last time I wrote about my Firja, Judge of Valor Artisan Commander deck, we had just graduated from Strixhaven, and struck out on an adventure in the Forgotten Realms. Since then, we've seen the sun set on ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Colour(less) Identity Ben Iverach-Brereton May 9, 2022 Rants of Valakut We've all had the idea: wouldn't it be fun to build a colourless Commander deck! Grab a big Eldrazi titan and plunk it in the Command zone, then fill your deck with all those utility lands that never usually ma... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Sleeving Up Adventure (Part 2) Ben Iverach-Brereton April 25, 2022 Rants of Valakut Last time, we figured out what elements we wanted to include in our D&D adventure by using cards from a Magic deck. Now it's time to organize it into something coherent. We can start in one of two ways: by ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Sleeving Up Adventure (Part 1) Ben Iverach-Brereton April 11, 2022 Rants of Valakut Magic has always had a close history with Dungeons & Dragons, even long before Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, so it's not surprising that people would find creative ways of combining the two games. In ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Modern Inspired Control Ben Iverach-Brereton March 28, 2022 Rants of Valakut 1 Long before Vesperlark Reanimator was even a glimmer of a possibility, and even before Delver Grow hit the table, my first foray into Modern was a Blue/Black Control deck built around Disciple of Deceit. Unf... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: The Mage-Rings of Vryn Ben Iverach-Brereton March 14, 2022 Rants of Valakut "Come for the mage-rings, stay for the... uh... mage-rings?" - a Vryn travel agent, probably Vryn is a backwater plane somewhere out in the blind eternities. It has two notable features: it was the ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Death’s Peasants Ben Iverach-Brereton February 28, 2022 Rants of Valakut For years I've been treating Artisan* Commander as a deck-building restriction. I've always enjoyed the challenge of putting together a list that can hold its own at the table without using any rare or mythic r... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Drawing Ahead (Part 3) Ben Iverach-Brereton February 13, 2022 Rants of Valakut Part 1 and Part 2 may have already resolved, but you can still get them back to your hand. You don't even need an Disentomb to do it; just follow the links! Anticipate There's a plethora of sp... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Drawing Ahead (Part 2) Ben Iverach-Brereton January 31, 2022 Rants of Valakut In part one we went over cantrips, looting and sacrificial draw. There's still plenty more card advantage to go over, so let's dive right in. Impulse Draw Perhaps more accurately described as ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Drawing Ahead (Part 1) Ben Iverach-Brereton January 17, 2022 Rants of Valakut I got to cast Ancestral Recall for the first time recently in the MTGO Vintage Cube. It was sweet, and flashing it back with Snapcaster Mage was even sweeter. It's very rare to find a card that effic... Read More...
