Guilds of Ravnica Draft | Channel BenS

[@RazorBack4441]

Thank you for zooming in on the cards, helps a lot!

[@A2Jmusic]

The draft portion of this video gave me AMAZING perspectives on a few potential level-ups I've been pondering!!! Thank you Ben!!

[@machinaeZER0]

Ben, do you think you'll do another Arena draft soon? Just started watching your videos and I absolutely love them, but your Arena draft that I saw was superb. It was excellent to see you talk about cards without a time limit while drafting, and I also just really like how Arena looks. Either way I'll definitely be watching more, keep up the amazing work!

[@Ryan-vh9bw]

Came for in depth explanations of picks and mispronunciations of cards. Wasn't disappointed.

[@notanetdeck5264]

Something I’ve seen a lot of pros do lately is pick Beacon Bolt highly/over good on-color playables and then decide against splashing it. Not sure if it’s wrong, but it’s definitely interesting.

[@rogergeyer9851]

Great video and great job drafting by Ben, as usual. The one thing I respectfully disagree with is the decision not to keep the Watcher game one. Ben had surveil 2 in hand (via Informant) to search for land. The 2nd Watcher would have REALLY helped in the race. I might be wrong every time, but I think in that set-up, I keep the 2nd Watcher, use my surveil triggers to find land, and figure in 100 games like that against a likely creature heavy deck, I'm better off most of them.

[@patrick4395]

Nice plays from your opponent! Playing conservative with attacks and then going all in G1 in the correct moment. Also playing around the discard bounce in game three to save his 4/4 and forfeiting to make tokens... really interesting decisions.

[@jarsek]

Love how well you explain your picks and overall thought process, superb sir

[@gregsmith1875]

I'm a simple man, I see a BenS draft video, I watch it. No questions asked.

[@boombeachgameplay-highvolt1840]

Thank you Ben for the improved production Quality. Would have been nice to see more than just one much.

[@euanmacleod3738]

Another great video. I think BenS drafted his seat really well and ended up with the best deck on offer. The opponent had a great deck and drew very hot game 1 and game 3 - and still if not for the stupid guildmage going to value town I think Ben would have won. GGs and thanks again for the great content.

[@myztik5716]

Not really hot draws, trading guildmage and binning second Watcher were bad plays

[@euanmacleod3738]

Found the same team of difficult to handle creatures both games - particularly the guildmage and the cavalier - and both utterly unconnected to whether or not we trade our guildmage or bin the second watcher. They were actively strong draws out of a deck with no card selection or filtering. Binning the second watcher when we can currently cast neither makes sense to me, and while we don't yet know the game is going to stretch long and we aren't going to end up drawing much of our removal, I think trading the guildmage is fine. We're the control deck with the stronger late game.

[@RW77777777]

Binning the second Watcher was bad because he had Strands removal in hand, which would answer the first Rosemane or Siege Wurm pressure while you spin your wheels for land. The Guildmage isn't as bad because you don't want your opp dunking huge Convoke guys on you, and his ice ability isn't the best against team Vigilance.

[@euanmacleod3738]

I think it's marginal. Our next card could be a nonland - our next three cards could be nonlands - and I would prefer making it more likely I can cast what's in my hand, hit the five mana threshold that lets me bin lands from then on looking for action, and play the watcher I already have on time. I see the appeal in keeping the watcher, but I think it's more risk than it's worth when we're already facing pressure. Very much agree about the guildmage. We also already know our mana is going to be taxed to capacity on better stuff for the foreseeable future.

[@youssefyounis9111]

Overall, I think BenS did a fantastic job navigating the draft. It was a very weird one because his seat clearly was hinting Boros; however, there was nothing in the packs early for him to get himself into Boros. As a deck, I believe it was a good one overall; however, this format appears to be very matchup oriented. I've had many Dimir decks or even Dimir splash x decks which get annihilated by the same deck over and over (Selesnya). Veil of Shade has been a great card for me and one of the few undervalued cards in this format. This format appears to be very tempo played and a card that is an early drop that can cause headaches later is one I would recommend playing or picking mid-late if you see it. Is it a 1st or 2nd pick for me? No, but definitely one I'd consider 3-5 if the pack has strong signals.

[@alexmohr1072]

Just saying, veiled shade has been one of the best overall preforming commons in black for myself. It's a early drop that can help stabilize the board and scales very well into the late game.

[@sj0nnie]

Yeah, that card sucks balls. Most of the time it is just a scathe zombie.

[@robertvolgman6590]

Game 3 I would have bounced the 4/4 during combat instead of after, being on 10 life instead of 6 seems really helpful in surviving to the late game.

[@michalljubljanac312]

I agree

[@sam1127x]

toward the end of round1game3, you discarded dazzling lights to a radical idea. I think i would have played the lights to dig further for what you needed.

[@Gnomebitten]

who is this Goal Garry he keeps talking about

[@yumsundae]

the card that says target creature cant be blocked, why not take that one? seems good :O

[@cms53]

If I believed that BenS were capable of trolling, I'd say that marginally increasing the card sizes was a great example.

[@kl0pper]

vealed shade

[@jasonjames9836]

They are made of meat 🥩 🙃😆

[@RW77777777]

That vegan chick is giving me the death stare. mm mmm so tender

[@BBrecht]

The least ethical of all the shades.

[@utterlyj1277]

Sounds tasty.

[@MrGarruk123]

Seems lose to pick the Boros card when you still have Dimir Guildgate and Golgari Locket to chose from at 4:14

[@robertorama8284]

I think that Ben did the right move there. He didn't have anything strong on Dimir at that point yet (the first picks were good but not bombs), and Sumhome Starwart (a great card) on 4th could be a signal that people are not picking Boros, so it's fine to take a chance there. Also, not a big lose, the locket is ok, to mediocre to bad depending on the deck and the guildgate it's just an utility, picking it as a 4th pick first pack would be overcommitting to Dimir.

[@nicolaslandau4692]

24:33 pretty late for direct current and ornery goblin too. Weird draft.

[@Aquificae]

I think if he returned his 1/4 3-drop instead of the opponent's token, he could have cast it again, grown the spybug into a 3/3 (making it a good blocker that would eat the extra token, so no extra damage), and getting rid of the excess lands for the following turns. Maybe it was too late, but he would be able to eat 2 creatures a turn, while his opponent would make 2. And that's if he didn't draw any good cards with the help of the surveil 2.

[@Gresdak]

No clue why in game three you went and discarded dazzling lights to radical idea when you could’ve cast it to set up your next draw and if you still bricked then you can cast radical idea to help dig further. I think looking at 3 cards instead of one is just more efficient albeit not mana efficient.

[@ZeroFate643]

Could have bounced your own Whisper Agent around 45:00. That would have guaranteed you the surveil triggers you needed to find lethal.

[@giles4565]

Good spot, unfortunately would no longer have lethal because you can't swing with both flyers if you don't kill their token (they have lethal on the way back)

[@MrAntares13]

MTG Arena drafting please! So there's no pick timer :D

[@nicolaslandau4692]

21:05 I would have taken the guildgate there.

[@DeltaAccel]

WikiHow to be good at Magic like Ben S

[@jc70003]

“Arbortorium Elemental”

[@mattduarte4914]

Those two Circuitous Routes (along with the District Guide) would have been good for splashing for Izoni

[@Spaccaspecchi]

I don't think putting two sorceries in your deck to splash for an Undergrowth payoff is a good idea.

[@harrythornberry1790]

Uncle Benjn' vid W00t !!

[@HessianHunter]

Dammit Ben, the shade is wearing a veil, it's not being turned into meat. It's pronounced "Vayled Shade"

[@flowerFOG]

Bigger!

[@louisriley2325]

1 Douser was needed

[@stefanofagiano7054]

I don't understand the fear of being 3 colours, not just splashing... A true 3 colours deck! You could have played a bomb instead of all those crabs

[@dreamwalkertunes]

Underrating Devious Cover-up I think. I would have taken cover-up over severed strands for sure. Especially early.

[@MrGarruk123]

The lockets are really underrated

[@James-nz8hp]

In the pack with the stalwart I take the sonic assault. If you know boros is being passed, red is being passed.

[@snarkanoid]

Veal'd shade

[@RainbowRandolf]

I haven't been watching enough LSV, pack 2 was an easy "Well when it Notion Rains it pours."

[@Thealexglass]

Thanks for the content. Glad to see MTGO instead of MTGA as well.

[@jonathanemontgomery]

I’m I the only one that loves to take Gateway Plaza early-mid pack?

[@MrGarruk123]

Bad card is bad

[@maxreis9534]

when I saw the patrole, I thought Boros is open

[@jacoponoli1072]

You should probably go for Boros

[@gunnar2460]

in game 1 wouldnt have attacked with the watcher. wouldnt have gone for the kill with the surveil. both horrible plays in mind. doesnt matter how well they are explained. happy to see that those mistakes are punished. not normal anymore in those new formats where your mistakes almost dont matter anymore. hmm, well the other dude punted by playing out his last land so who knows. in game 3 not bouncing before damage was too fancy . at least pondering about this was important.

[@kcsnipes]

In building why not play 41 if u have cheap spells ? Try a little beckering

[@sageaguilar9261]

No respect for Shelly.

[@frankjrmolley895]

This isn't very helpful, at all. Usually when getting instructed that 'instructor' is very kee, experienced and highly qualified. Not learning much here or i';ll say it, all these other videos, it's not very convincing or assisttive, we have to take the creator's word for it.

[@robertorama8284]

BenS is a pro player and has a lot of experience on limited (he won 3 tournaments) mtg.gamepedia.com/Ben_Stark

[@RW77777777]

Didn't go Boros; why is this guy considered a pro?!? waa waa waah

[@themistocles5484]

If people care enough to look at the timestamp to see what round they lost in, they can damn well hover over the 1:30:00 mark to see the “extended to not spoil” screen, and the people like me who see a 2h video and think “great, 2h of quality content” are going to be disappointed by this tactic. Please stop misleading your audience and do away with the hour long end card that does not do what you want it to.

[@mingtongzhi]

I appreciated it because I hate when I get spoiled on something like this.

[@themistocles5484]

mingtongzhi then don’t look at how long the video is, and if you do see it, don’t compare it to the length of other CFB draft videos

[@camillolukesch6217]

noooo it's not mtga :(

[@jplcpa9923]

MTGA draft is worse than MTGO except for BenS drafts - no time limit on picks means more fabulous insight and explanation on every pick. Can't get enough.