The Cursed (King of Swiss, Greek Nationals 2017)

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Derived from
King of the Sea - GJ rains Fracas 2017 king of swiss 42 27 12 1.0
Inspiration for
World's top 8 deck 6 5 4 1.0

Atanas Keranov 410

Found this really nice deck from Isian and modified it to fit my playstyle. Nothing extraordinary in my deckbuilding decisions with the exception of maybe Marching Orders, which was a fun experiment. The deck went 5:0 in swiss (TJP link) winning against:

  1. Stark Fealty 1:0. He did not draw any economy all game long. I used this to my advantage and reset the board with Varys + Valar. He couldn't recover and I went for the win.

  2. Lanni Rains 2:0. He had a really strong first round with Cersei (LoCR), Casterly Rock, and Chella. Chella got 4 or 5 ear tokens right then and there after Rains into Wildfire Assault and I was left with no cards in hand. Lucky for me the opponent did not have a single dupe/bodyguard and couldn't recover after a round 2 Valar.

  3. Lanni Rose 3:0. I was surprised to see that two players brought a version of my Wonder Woman deck in the tournament. Their version of the deck included Wheels Within Wheels which was not released when I was playing the Wonder Woman, together with Taena Merryweather, and also sacked Harrenhal, Varys, and Giants. This made the deck unable to control the board, but much faster than the original version. I managed to win the game by choosing to go first in the third round and triggering Sea Bitch on The Honeywine with 3 power before my opponent could ambush a unique character and play a Treachery.

  4. Martell Watch 4:0. I liked this deck very much, as he had ~7 power by the end of round 2, and I had ~2 thanks to some Areo Hotah + Veteran Builder + The Wall + Flea Bottom tricks. I suspect he would have won this if he had a Varys in hand. On round 3 I played Rise of the Kraken and just outran him.

  5. GJ Rains Mirror 5:0. This game was a matter of who will get his board first. At some point, I had 4x Great Halls and 4x Iron Mines thanks to Dagmer & Euron and was just able to withstand a potential double Valar better than my opponent. 5:0 King of Swiss

  6. Top 8 Lanni Rose 5:1. Again a faster variant of this thing with the new cards released after The Fall of Astapor, this time piloted by a different opponent. I was confident that I have some chance of winning, but my opponent set up The Honeywine, Taena Merryweather, Small Council Chamber and played a Casterly Rock round 1. I had a very poor before and after mulligan hands, so after he put into play Jaime and Cersei, he ended the challenges phase at 14 power. Round 2 he played Annals and a "The Dornishman's Wife" got him to 13 power. I was just a spectator in this game. My first and last desperate attempt to do something was stealing his Honeywine with Sea Bitch, but this time he was the first player and managed to put Cersei in play beforehand and cancel my reaction with Treachery. Then he went on and won the whole tournament.

Congrats and thanks to all of the Greek guys who organized and participated. They are all really friendly and laid back, so it was a pleasure to participate.

4 comments

Jools 46

It can feel very badly when you lose versus your own deck. Isn't it? People steals your (cancer) deck and play with it on theironthonenet and local tournaments...

Atanas Keranov 410

@Jools it feels bad when I lose against any type of deck. That's just me. :) His deck was just better and I'm sure that if we played 10 games in a row, he'd win at least 7. Can't be mad about that. I don't think the word "steal" is correct here. I posted the deck because I wanted to share it with other people in the first place. One reason to do so is that I want recognition, but another reason is that I'd like for the meta to shift and for people to be prepared for it before the next big tournament (Stahleck).

euphius 249

OMG...I love the Sea Bitch stealing their power location for the win in game 3...Fantastic play.

LGB 171

Well done Nasi! Would not be fare to loose to your own deck!