Rant of Valakut: Fallen Ideal Ben Iverach-Brereton December 26, 2016 Rants of Valakut 2 There are some cards that seem to do everything you want them to do in your deck. Fallen Ideal, a black aura from Time Spiral and an homage to the card Fallen Angel, enchants a creature and gives it both flying... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Isperia the Inscrutable Ben Iverach-Brereton December 12, 2016 Rants of Valakut 2 When a deck isn't working it can be hard to pinpoint exactly why. With my Isperia the Inscrutable commander deck the problem largely involved the costs of the cards I was including. When I first built the deck,... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Ulvenwald Mysteries Ben Iverach-Brereton November 28, 2016 Rants of Valakut I've been quite impressed by Ulvenwald Mysteries, a 3 cost green enchantment from Shadows over Innistrad. While I haven't seen it in Commander yet, I saw it a fair bit in draft, and the amount of work it put in... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Oona’s Grace Ben Iverach-Brereton November 14, 2016 Rants of Valakut When I first saw Oona's Grace I was intrigued. Here was an Instant that drew a card and could be recast multiple times from my graveyard by discarding a land and paying its casting cost again; an old ability ca... Read More...
Rant of Valakut: Episode 2 Ben Iverach-Brereton November 1, 2016 Rants of Valakut Several years ago, some co-workers and I took part in a deck building challenge: to build 'Peasant' Commander decks that contained no Rare or Mythic Rare cards. This rarity restriction included the Legendary Cr... Read More...
Glissa, the Traitor The Mana Base October 29, 2016 Commander Glissa the Traitor: Ben Iverarch-Brereton Glissa, the Traitor1 x Acidic Slime1 x Blood Artist1 x Burnished Hart1 x Catacomb Sifter1 x Corpse Connoisseur1 x Disciple of the Vault1 x Eternal Witness1 x Fal... Read More...
Rants of Valakut: Episode 1 Ben Iverach-Brereton October 15, 2016 Rants of Valakut Of all the really sweet cards that came out of Shadows over Innistrad, There was one card in particular that I needed to get my hands on, and it’s probably not what you would have expected. No, as cool as ... Read More...
Sivitri Scarsam The Mana Base October 13, 2016 Commander Sivitri Scarsam: By Ben Iverarch-Brereton 1 x AEthersnipe1 x Archaeomancer1 x Artisan of Kozilek1 x Azure Mage1 x Bane Alley Broker1 x Blind Zealot1 x Breaker of Armies1 x Burnished Hart1 x Cadaver Imp1 x Di... Read More...
Ben Iverach-Brereton Researcher Bio Ben Iverach-Brereton October 10, 2016 Ben Iverton The door to this dimly lit wing of the base is slightly off its hinges; from what you've heard of Ben, the inhabitant here, that seems fitting. As you step into the room you see cards piled everyw... Read More...
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben The Mana Base October 10, 2016 Commander Thalia, Guardian of Thraben: by Ben Iverarch-Brereton Angel of FinalityAngel of JubilationAngel of SerenityAngelic OverseerArchon of JusticeBanisher PriestCaptain of the WatchCelestial CrusaderCourt Street D... Read More...