The theme for the third week of Shabu Showdown 2025 was “Guilds of Ravnica,” where editors were given a week to create a video representing one of the ten Ravnica guilds from the Magic: The Gathering game setting.
I had a really hard time coming up with an idea for this one, as nothing I came up with seemed to fit any of the descriptions of the Guilds. Not being familiar with any of the MTG lore (I had stopped playing the game more than 20 years earlier, between the Tempest and Urza blocks) also didn’t help me.
I eventually settled on using the recently-released movie Conclave, which I’d enjoyed (though I think the book was better), and waffled between presenting the church as Orzhov or Azorius before landing on Orzhov. For the audio, I annoyed myself by going back to my old standby for short timeframe videos of instrumental production music and Two Steps From Hell, which still managed to work in creating a fairly suspenseful thriller-style video.
Not my most successful week, but I still like the resulting video.
Video – Conclave
Audio – Two Steps From Hell – Rapid Eye Movement
Completed July 2025
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