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Guild Games | Ravnica Allegiance Box Brawl

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Commanders featured in this video Reviewed & Verified

Deck Strategies

  • Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

    Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

    Control and tempo by limiting opponents' ability to cast spells if conditions are not met, focusing on disruption and efficient creatures to maintain board presence.

  • Dovin, Grand Arbiter

    Dovin, Grand Arbiter

    A control-oriented planeswalker deck that generates value through loyalty counters, creating thopters, gaining life, and filtering cards to control the mid-to-late game.

  • Sphinx of the Guildpack

    A powerful flying hexproof threat that leverages multicolor synergies to dominate the board with evasive damage and resilience against mono-colored removal.

Gameplay Insights

  • 1

    Choosing commanders that align with the colors and themes of the Ravnica guilds was crucial for deck synergy and effectiveness.

  • 2

    Dovin's ability to create thopters and gain life provided sustained board presence and incremental advantage in combat phases.

  • 3

    Lavinia's restriction on casting spells when creatures outnumber lands encouraged careful resource and board management.

  • 4

    Casting low-cost creatures early helped build tempo, but players remained cautious about overextending due to Lavinia's restrictions.

  • 5

    The presence of powerful multicolor creatures with hexproof highlighted the importance of protecting key threats from removal.

  • 6

    Players balanced between aggressive early plays and setting up for a longer control game, with planeswalkers and value creatures influencing pacing.

Notable Cards

  • Dovin, Grand Arbiter

    Dovin, Grand Arbiter

  • Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

    Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

  • Impassioned Orator

    Impassioned Orator

  • Captive Audience

    Captive Audience

Summary

The game began with players opening packs from the Ravnica Allegiance set and building 60-card decks with chosen commanders, emphasizing two-color guild themes. Key commanders included Lavinia, Azorius Renegade; Dovin, Grand Arbiter; and others representing their guilds. Early plays involved casting low-cost creatures and setting up board presence, with Dovin's ability to generate thopters and gain life highlighting a control strategy. Lavinia's ability to restrict casting spells if more creatures than lands were played suggested a tempo and control approach. The game’s pace was marked by strategic land plays and early board development, with players mindful of their commanders' unique restrictions and abilities. The interaction of Dovin's planeswalker abilities and Lavinia's control elements indicated a slow, grindy game with incremental advantages, while the Sphinx of the Guildpack presence hinted at a potential late-game threat due to its flying and hexproof.

Description

Welcome to two color heaven. Join Charlie, Drew, Matt, and Ryan as we gather our guilds for battle. Which two color pairing will reign supreme? Will Matt use the stack? Will someone take 18 damage from one spell? Will Charlie make it to the bathroom in time!? Only one way to find out.

Box Brawl is a series of Magic: The Gathering Youtube videos that seeks to answer two questions: what would happen if we played through every single set of Magics history and who would be named its champion at the end of it? Well, Charlie “MoistCr1tikal” “penguinz0”, Matt, Ryan, and Drew are doing exactly that, playing through some modified sealed/limited rules for the commander format, almost close to brawl. The game works like this: Open a box of magic cards that hasn’t been opened yet Each player gets an amount of cards to build a 60 card deck out of, naming a commander along the way (which can be any creature, not restricted to legendary creatures) Play a game and give points out based on placements, 3 for first, 2 for second, 1 for third, and 0 for last. Also the player that opens the most expensive card gets a point for free. Eventually we will have played through all of the sets and at the end the player with the most points will be crowned the best magic player in the world, unquestionably. Along the way we’ll laugh, we’ll cry, and maybe we will have a few guests in the mean time. Stay tuned!!