Cubism: Throne of Eldraine Cube Review – Part 2! Aaron Paquette October 3, 2019 Cubism We're back with the second half of our Throne of Eldraine cube review! Even with a shaky spoiler-season start, Throne of Eldraine quickly turned into another great fall set to cap off what might be one of the m... 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...
Cubism: Throne of Eldraine Cube Review – Adventures! Aaron Paquette September 27, 2019 Cubism This week we talk about Throne of Eldraine's most interesting mechanic - Adventure! In this half of our review, we go over mechanics and all the fun new Adventure cards that might be worth testing out in cube! ... Read More...
Cubism: Cube Draft and Gameplay #2 Aaron Paquette September 16, 2019 Cubism This week Aaron's drafting his own 45o Legacy Cube doing anything he can to do better than Cam's 0-3 from last week (but that shouldn't be too hard). Still working on some editing tweaks but we're slowly gettin... 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...
Cubism: Cube Draft and Gameplay Aaron Paquette September 2, 2019 Cubism After weeks of trial and error, we're finally able to release Cube draft & gameplay (still got some bug to figure out). This week we follow Cam drafting Drew's 540 Cube and all 3 of his matches. https://... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: A Keyword Workshop Ben Iverach-Brereton September 2, 2019 Rants of Valakut A keyword is an easy shorthand that lets a player quickly learn what a new card does at a glance: "I've seen First Strike before, so I know what it means when I see it on a new card." As long as the keyword i... Read More...
Rant of Valakut – Modern Flux Channeler Storm Ben Iverach-Brereton August 19, 2019 Rants of Valakut 2 There's no shortage of Storm decks in Magic. The idea of casting a flurry of spells in a single turn is remarkably popular. It doesn't matter what format it is, if there are enough cheap spells that d... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: The Peasants of Scarzam and Gix Ben Iverach-Brereton August 5, 2019 Rants of Valakut Way back in ancient times, when Rants of Valakut was just starting, I wrote about my Peasant Commander deck. The deck was a labour of love, built entirely out if commons and uncommons that I had either drafted ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Modern Vesperlark Reanimator Ben Iverach-Brereton July 29, 2019 Rants of Valakut I may be overly excited by Vesperlark. I don't get this excited about a new card very often, but something in my brain latched onto this scaled-down Reveillark and won't let go. The gears in my head began turni... Read More...
