Limited Draft Guide

Guilds of Ravnica (GRN)

Crush your next MTG draft with our Guilds of Ravnica draft guide, including a color tier list, card ratings, set mechanics, and more.

Last updated: Total matches: 19,000

Get better with Draftsmith

Improve at Draft and Sealed with Draftsmith, Untapped.gg’s draft and deck builder assistant.

Card Stats Preview

Set OverviewStats based on: Premier Draft

10.1
Fast
Slow
7.5 min
Short
Long
BestWorst
263
108
82
55
18
2018

Top Colors Combinations

Tier
Colors
6+ Wins
Popularity
Tier
A
Dimir
23.3%
Boros
21.5%
Tier
B
Golgari
11.4%
Abzan
3.7%
Tier
C
Selesnya
13.0%
Izzet
11.6%
Tier
D
Grixis
4.5%
Sultai
4.5%
Naya
3.0%
Jeskai
1.5%
Low Match Volume
Tier
?
4-Color
0.4%

Top Commons by Color

Healer's Hawk
Healer's Hawk
MTGA mana symbols
Take Heart
Take Heart
MTGA mana symbols
Luminous Bonds
Luminous Bonds
MTGA mana symbols
Watcher in the Mist
Watcher in the Mist
MTGA mana symbols
Devious Cover-Up
Devious Cover-Up
MTGA mana symbols
Unexplained Disappearance
Unexplained Disappearance
MTGA mana symbols
Dead Weight
Dead Weight
MTGA mana symbols
Deadly Visit
Deadly Visit
MTGA mana symbols
Child of Night
Child of Night
MTGA mana symbols
Wojek Bodyguard
Wojek Bodyguard
MTGA mana symbols
Ornery Goblin
Ornery Goblin
MTGA mana symbols
Direct Current
Direct Current
MTGA mana symbols
Kraul Foragers
Kraul Foragers
MTGA mana symbols
Devkarin Dissident
Devkarin Dissident
MTGA mana symbols
Generous Stray
Generous Stray
MTGA mana symbols
Whisper Agent
Whisper Agent
MTGA mana symbols
Artful Takedown
Artful Takedown
MTGA mana symbols
Darkblade Agent
Darkblade Agent
MTGA mana symbols

Archetypes & Signpost Uncommons

Most Popular Combat Tricks

Set Mechanics

The instruction to surveil always includes a number, such as surveil 2 on Deadly Visit. Look at that many cards from the top of your library. From those cards, put as many cards as you like back on top of your library in any order. Put the rest into your graveyard. Surveil helps you set up better draws for the future.

View all 11 Surveil cards

You can cast a card with jump-start from your graveyard by paying all its regular costs and one additional cost: discarding a card from your hand. Casting a spell with jump-start follows all the normal timing rules, so sorceries with jump-start are still limited to your main phases. A spell with jump-start that was cast from your graveyard can still be countered, and if it has targets, it won't do anything if all its targets disappear or otherwise become illegal. After a spell with jump-start cast from your graveyard resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in any way, it's exiled.

View all 10 Jump-Start cards

Each undergrowth ability is different, so read each carefully to see exactly how all these corpses are going to help you. Golgari decks are highly interested in filling the graveyard. Creature combat is a fantastic way to do that, but discarding cards and dumping cards from the top of your library into your graveyard are just as effective. Undergrowth abilities provide scaling effects that may start small, but they can be dominating in the late game.

View all 12 Undergrowth cards

Mentor is an ability that triggers whenever the creature with mentor attacks. You choose another attacking creature with lesser power as the target. As the ability resolves, compare the powers of the two creatures again. If the target creature's power is still less than the power of the creature with mentor, put a +1/+1 counter on the target creature.

View all 13 Mentor cards

Convoke allows you to tap your creatures rather than pay for some or all of the mana normally required to cast the spell. Each creature pays for one mana of its color or for one generic mana if it doesn't match any the spell's colors. If you tap a multicolored creature, you can choose which cost it's covering.

View all 13 Convoke cards

The detectives of Ravnica have plenty of choices to make, and so will you when you're casting split cards! Each split card has two card faces on it, and each card face represents an individual spell you can cast.

View all 10 Split Cards cards