Rant of Valakut: Vesperlark Reanimator Update Ben Iverach-Brereton January 20, 2020 Rants of Valakut When Faithless Looting got banned in Modern, I was worried that my brand new Vesperlark Reanimator deck would completely fall apart. I was losing one of the best cards in the deck; a core part of its ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Superhero Movies in Five Cards Ben Iverach-Brereton January 6, 2020 Rants of Valakut #In5Cards Previous puzzles: Christmas #In5Cards Sci-Fi #In5Cards Every winter, Rants of Valalut releases a list of word puzzles using Magic cards as clues. Each puzzle uses the names of five cards to desc... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: D&D of the Spark – Part 2 Ben Iverach-Brereton December 23, 2019 Rants of Valakut "No good deed ever goes unpunished." - Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 285 The Group: Nick - Dungeon Master (Nicol Bolas) Lilly - Liliana Vess, level 19 Human Necromancer Chad - Gideon Jura, leve... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: D&D of the Spark – Part 1 Ben Iverach-Brereton December 9, 2019 Rants of Valakut "Gideon riding Rakdos is the sort of thing you propose to your DM, roll a nat 20, and then they sigh and let you do it because they have to." - Chris VanMeter The Group: Nick - Dungeon Master (Ni... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Scheming Symmetry – the Format of Stacked Decks Ben Iverach-Brereton November 25, 2019 Rants of Valakut You and your opponent have identical decks, and the ability to arrange your libraries however you want. Can you come up with a winning strategy? SCHEMING SYMMETRY Scheming Symmetry is an experimental format ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Beauty and the Beast Token Ben Iverach-Brereton November 11, 2019 Rants of Valakut Yisan Records is pleased to present an exciting new animated musical from the team that brought you Jace's Gatewatcheers, Mentor of the Meek, and Scoop.... Beauty and the Beast Token The story so ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Scavenging Scavenge Ben Iverach-Brereton October 28, 2019 Rants of Valakut Way back in Return to Ravnica, we saw a mechanic for the Golgari called Scavenge. Cards with it could be exiled from the graveyard to put +1/+1 counters on a target creature on the battlefield based o... Read More...
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...
