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Title: Round 1 - Blue - Benjamin or Ira
Post by: Bryon on March 04, 2012, 10:35:22 PM: Which is the better Redemption hero?

Benjamin (FF)
Ira (Ki)
Title: Re: Round 1 - Blue - Benjamin or Ira
Post by: Red Wing on March 04, 2012, 10:41:33 PM: I went with Ira. Benjamin doesn't fit in anything other then a Genesis deck.
Title: Re: Round 1 - Blue - Benjamin or Ira
Post by: Alex_Olijar on March 04, 2012, 11:15:24 PM: Ira can be in Sam decks. Benjamin can't. Go Ira.
Title: Re: Round 1 - Blue - Benjamin or Ira
Post by: SomeKittens on March 04, 2012, 11:25:02 PM: Hmm. One CBN, one FBTN. I'll go with Ira, because I've actually used him to some success.
Title: Re: Round 1 - Blue - Benjamin or Ira
Post by: Professoralstad on March 05, 2012, 11:10:27 AM: Since apparently Benjamin players are the silent majority, I'll just say that the ability to use several good battle winners CBN with initiative vs. every EC (except guys like Spirit of Temptation and Gib Delegates with Crown of Thorns) is better than FBTN. Plus, Benjamin is recurrable with two different Heroes.
Title: Re: Round 1 - Blue - Benjamin or Ira
Post by: Chronic Apathy on March 05, 2012, 11:14:00 AM: Quote from: Professoralstad on March 05, 2012, 11:10:27 AM
Since apparently Benjamin players are the silent majority, I'll just say that the ability to use several good battle winners CBN with initiative vs. every EC (except guys like Spirit of Temptation and Gib Delegates with Crown of Thorns) is better than FBTN. Plus, Benjamin is recurrable with two different Heroes.

My main problem with Ben is that he's overshadowed by better heroes within Genesis. Chances are I can be rescuing with Zebulun, Simeon/Levi, Eve, or Joe instead of Ben.
Title: Re: Round 1 - Blue - Benjamin or Ira
Post by: Wings of Music on March 06, 2012, 05:05:59 PM: What you say is true (though I would have to disagree with you about Simeon/Levi being better). But does that make Ben any less powerful as a character? Ben is almost assured inish and has several awesome battle winners to work with. I would say that CBN battle winning, and easy recur-ability is better than Ira's FBTN ability.
Title: Re: Round 1 - Blue - Benjamin or Ira
Post by: Josh on March 06, 2012, 09:52:40 PM: No doubt a 1/1 that has CBN enhancements is ridiculously good. But Ira wins battles without enhancements. Character-heavy decks are still the best in T1.
Title: Re: Round 1 - Blue - Benjamin or Ira
Post by: Wings of Music on March 07, 2012, 10:37:13 AM: I play blue in T2 so my views of Benjamin are coming from the T2 standpoint. I really haven't played genesis in T1 that much.