Rant of Valakut: The Double Masters Musical Ben Iverach-Brereton August 3, 2020 Rants of Valakut Originally published in Rolling Stoneforge Magazine.* Double Masters went through major changes over the course of its development, but nothing quite as major as the changes to its marketing campaign. The in... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: A Jump/Starting Point Ben Iverach-Brereton July 20, 2020 Rants of Valakut Jump/Start is a fascinating product concept. It's effectively the card game Smash Up combined with Magic decks, the idea of quickly shuffling together two half-decks to play a game is quite cool, and is somewha... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: EnXantchatress Ben Iverach-Brereton June 22, 2020 Rants of Valakut I originally had a completely different article planned for this week, with custom cards I made with art from the Rijksmuseum. In light of recent events, I felt it important to take some extra time to review my... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Cube Route pt.5 – The Final Push Ben Iverach-Brereton June 8, 2020 Rants of Valakut You can find the full Cube Route here: Part 1 - Finding the Beginning Part 2 - Counters and Counters Part 3 - Sorted by Colour Part 4 - All Things Being Equal And now, the conclusion.... After... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Cube Route pt. 4 – All Things Being Equal Ben Iverach-Brereton May 25, 2020 Rants of Valakut The Cube project continues! If you missed any of the saga so far, you can catch up here: Part 1 - Finding the Beginning Part 2 - Counters and Counters Part 3 - Sorted by Colour When picking ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Cube Route Pt. 3 – Sorted by Colour Ben Iverach-Brereton May 11, 2020 Rants of Valakut Time goes on, we're all still hunkered down at home, but at least I've made more progress on my Cube. If you haven't seen the other articles in my Cube Route series, you can find them here: Part 1 -... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Cube Route Pt. 2 – Counters and Counters Ben Iverach-Brereton April 27, 2020 Rants of Valakut This is Part 2 of my Cube Route series. If you haven't read it yet, you'll probably want to start with Part 1 - Finding the Beginning. Last time, I had just finished selecting gold cards for th... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Cube Route Pt. 1 – Finding the Beginning Ben Iverach-Brereton April 13, 2020 Rants of Valakut Like everyone, I find myself with more time to myself than expected as of late. I've taken this opportunity to catch up on several projects that I've been putting off. Stuck at home, I've been focusin... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Peasants of the Henge (Part 2) Ben Iverach-Brereton March 30, 2020 Decklists, Rants of Valakut In case you missed it, you can find part 1 of this article here. As you may recall, in my last article I showed you my latest Commander deck, an aggressive mono-green list that doesn't include any rare... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Exert Target Creature Ben Iverach-Brereton March 2, 2020 Rants of Valakut Today I'd like to discuss Exert, and the potential it has for Magic as a whole. Exert is one of my favourite mechanics, and one that I think could be used is virtually every set if it underwent one small adjust... Read More...
