What does Pro Tour mainstay (and Paris 2011's winner)  Ben Stark do when facing down a Top 8 filled with some of the games best?

Win.

These were the seven others vying to claim the first stop of the 2013 Grand Prix circuit:

• Tom Martell (defending his 2012 Grand Prix Indianapolis crown)
• Brian Demars (winner from August's Grand Prix Boston)
• Matthias Hunt (2011 Rookie of the Year)
• Chris Fennell (undefeated through his Grand Prix Trial on Friday)
• Adam Yurchick (winner of 2010's Grand Prix Houston)
• Tyler Lytle (winner from last month's Grand Prix San Antonio)
• Luis Scott-Vargas (de facto Pro Tour Hall of Fame member)

With the draft a distant past, Stark's Golgari Swarm faced the undefeated fellow Floridian Fennell's Selesnya-splashing-Vraska the Unseen. The rest of the story is in the headline and official coverage of Grand Prix Indianapolis 2013.

"Golgari - Return to Ravnica Draft | Ben Stark, Winner GP Indianapolis"

• Creatures (17)
• 1 Daggerdrome Imp
• 1 Ogre Jailbreaker
• 1 Perilous Shadow
• 2 Sewer Shambler
• 1 Zanikev Locust
• 2 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Brushstrider
• 1 Drudge Beetle
• 1 Stonefare Crocodile
• 1 Towering Indrik
• 1 Dreg Mangler
• 1 Korozda Guildmage
• 2 Sluiceway Scorpion
• 1 Trestle Troll

• Spells (7)
• 1 Launch Party
• 3 Stab Wound
• 2 Grisly Salvage
• 1 Treasured Find

• Lands (16)
• 6 Forest
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Golgari Guildgate
• 1 Grove of the Guardian
• 1 Selesnya Guildgate

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Mizzium Skin
• 1 Catacomb Slug
• 1 Destroy the Evidence
• 1 Batterhorn
• 1 Racecourse Fury
• 1 Traitorous Instinct
• 2 Aerial Predation
• 1 Gobbling Ooze
• 2 Rubbleback Rhino
• 1 Seek the Horizon
• 1 Centaur Healer
• 1 Rakdos Ringleader
• 1 Sundering Growth

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"Selesnya splashing Vraska - Return to Ravnica Draft | Chris Fennell, 2nd GP Indianapolis"

• Creatures (11)
• 1 Azorius Arrester
• 1 Phantom General
• 1 Seller of Songbirds
• 1 Axebane Guardian
• 1 Korozda Monitor
• 1 Towering Indrik
• 1 Lotleth Troll
• 1 Wayfaring Temple
• 1 Azor's Elocutors
• 1 Dryad Militant
• 1 Vassal Soul

• Spells (11)
• 1 Arrest
• 1 Eyes in the Skies
• 1 Trostani's Judgment
• 1 Savage Surge
• 1 Call of the Conclave
• 1 Collective Blessing
• 1 Common Bond
• 2 Coursers' Accord
• 1 Selesnya Charm
• 1 Vraska the Unseen

• Lands (18)
• 6 Forest
• 7 Plains
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Golgari Guildgate
• 2 Selesnya Guildgate

• Sideboard (16)
• 1 Mizzium Skin
• 1 Goblin Rally
• 1 Pyroconvergence
• 1 Survey the Wreckage
• 1 Aerial Predation
• 1 Druid's Deliverance
• 1 Horncaller's Chant
• 1 Korozda Monitor
• 1 Rubbleback Rhino
• 1 Essence Backlash
• 1 Fall of the Gavel
• 1 Goblin Electromancer
• 1 Skull Rend
• 1 Trestle Troll
• 1 Cryptborn Horror
• 1 Sundering Growth

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