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: Delver Grow meets the Horizon Ben Iverach-Brereton July 1, 2019 Rants of Valakut It seems every deck got new toys in Modern Horizons, and my Simic Delver deck is no exception. There are new lands, new counterspells and new creatures in the set to consider. Plus, there's a whole new metagame... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: The Aristocrat and the Pauper (Part 2) Ben Iverach-Brereton May 13, 2019 Rants of Valakut (If you missed Part 1 of The Aristocrat and the Pauper, you can read it here.) Looking over what I had put together for my Aristocrats deck in Pauper, I still felt like I was missing something. I stepped... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: The Aristocrat and the Pauper (Part 1) Ben Iverach-Brereton May 6, 2019 Rants of Valakut Pauper players are everywhere these days, and I'm excited. I've always wanted to get into the format, and my local game store runs pretty regular Pauper events. I've had a lot of fun watching content ... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Harmless Hard-Lock Ben Iverach-Brereton January 28, 2019 Rants of Valakut We've seen a bit of talk about Experimental Frenzy as a tool for Storm decks to drill through their library, or for aggro decks to power through into the late game, but I wanted to look at a different use f... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: The Final Form of Delver No-Grow Ben Iverach-Brereton November 5, 2018 Rants of Valakut You'll probably want to start by reading Delver-Grow at the PPTQ and Testing Delver No-Grow, otherwise you may miss a few things. After testing my "Delver No-Grow" deck for three weeks I decide... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Testing Delver No-Grow Ben Iverach-Brereton October 22, 2018 Rants of Valakut If you haven't read it already, please check out my previous article for some context. For three weeks following the PPTQ I decided to test out the new version of my Simic Delver deck to really... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Delver Grow at the PPTQ Ben Iverach-Brereton October 8, 2018 Rants of Valakut My ongoing attempts to make a good Simic Delver deck in Modern continue! If you want to catch up on how I got to this point, here are links to the previous articles in the series: Building Delver Grow Part 1... Read More...
Modern Musings: Modern Guild Brews Michael Shapiro October 8, 2018 Modern Musings Hey everyone! Welcome to another Modern Musings! Today I'm going to talk about some Guilds of Ravnica Modern brews. More specifically something I'm calling G/R Rabble. I'm interested in this deck because we ... Read More...
Modern Musings: It’s Time We Need Time of Need Michael Shapiro May 14, 2018 Modern Musings 1 Hey everyone! Welcome to yet another Modern Musings! This week I had another Mox Amber deck planned, but after doing some testing, I found that the deck really didn't need it. Really there were two stars of t... Read More...
