Rant of Valakut: Customized for Cube Ben Iverach-Brereton February 1, 2021 Rants of Valakut Warning! This article contains unsolicited card designs. Members of Wizards R&D should stop reading right away. Might I suggest some music to tide you over instead, or perhaps a fun word puzzle? Rece... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Rupture the Spire, part 3 Ben Iverach-Brereton October 26, 2020 Rants of Valakut Rupture the Spire is a single-player deck-building game inspired by the video game Slay the Spire. Check out part 1 and part 2 if you haven't read them yet! Same Word, Different Meaning Today we're divi... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Rupture the Spire, part 2 Ben Iverach-Brereton October 12, 2020 Rants of Valakut The Game So Far In my last article I outlined the general plan for "Rupture the Spire": - It's a single-player deck-building game based on Slay the Spire. - You use Magic cards for everything. - Your dec... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Rupture the Spire, part 1 Ben Iverach-Brereton September 28, 2020 Rants of Valakut Slay the Spire is a deck building roguelike video game where you battle a series of monsters to ascend a strange tower. The cards you play will help deal damage to the monsters and shield you from harm. You beg... 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: Designing the Dreadhorde Ben Iverach-Brereton June 17, 2019 Rants of Valakut This article assumes you're already at least somewhat familiar with my other Horde decks: The Eldrazi Horde Horde of the Lich Lord Attack of the Dreadhorde Attack of the Dreadhorde is my thi... Read More...
Rant of Valakut – Designing the Eldrazi Horde Deck (part 2) Ben Iverach-Brereton January 29, 2018 Rants of Valakut 5 "What are you doing?" "This is my Horde deck." "Is this like the Magic equivalent of Solitaire?" "Kind of, yes." In my last article I shared my take on a cooperative Magic format called Horde Magic. This ... Read More...
