No Funny Stuff: Ep1 - Lannister "The Rains of Castamere"

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SirLargeness 470

Howdy friends. Corresponding deck list to the linked episode in the video series. Please check it out to get an idea of what we'll be doing in future episodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5l7St4UJp0&index=1&list=PLLHtQxWUIc1u42GiGAzSl6JB3tzljZBmZ

Brief descriptor : each episode we'll focus on what plays are necessary to perform well with a particular deck. We'll be mainly focusing on the decks that have risen to tier 1 status, but there will be room for other deck types to share the spotlight down the road. Each will be played against random online opponents, which with any luck I'll be able to record at least a handful of games where our opponents played a competitive archtype that you'd likely see in a tournament.

Feel free to let me know what decks you'd like to see played with in future installments. Have a good one!

5 comments

DrNovak 1

An absolute killer deck and a killer player :) I am the Stark player you are destroying on the video, lol :-D And your assumptions are correct, been playing for just 2 months. Will definitely follow your videos and try out some of your Stark decks. Keep it up!

SirLargeness 470

@DrNovak, it may be a while before i hit on a stark deck that gets an episode. Ive found recently they do their best when rushing power ad forcing opponents to activate resents earlier than they'd like. I've attached a link to a stark deck i did well with a couple months ago, good luck and thanks for the comment! thronesdb.com

TheGlove 1

How do you deal with Hearthstone Scouts? Also core Cat and Winterfell are annoying for jumpers.

SirLargeness 470

@TheGloveGreat questions. For Winterfel and Cat, your biggest weapon against those cards is Casterly Rock. With that out, and either Tyrion for stealth, Slynt with Intimidate, or just nightmares or Treachery, you are able to create situations where they have an extremely hard time shutting down Rains "Every" turn, THis is important, as you generally dont need more than a few green challenges without interference to turn the table to your favor. Last hearth Scouts is its own problem, and is entirely meta dependant.

As a whole, stark decks are not running that LHS as much as they should, but even when its in play generally your biggest tool is predicting those matchups when you'll see them, and saving your Valar to clear them off when they hit the baord. Against a Stark Fealty deck with 3x winterfel, Cat, and LHS, with some extra help from Brann and even Hands Judgement, this can be considered a "Bad Matchup" that would be very hard to consistently beat, though decks of that makeup have a very hard time making it through the cut at larger tournaments, so potentially you can afford to take a loss to something like that in Swiss and not have a huge expectation to play against it again in the top 8 forward. If your local environment has alot of that being played, i would instead take Targ Banner Kraken a tournament, as that style of stark would have issues with the aggressive Valar/Varys style of that deck and is a great matchup in those cases.

TheGlove 1

Thanks for the response. I don't play tourneys, just a local game night and one deck is Stark with LHS, Cat, Winterfell, Bran, Hand's Judgement, Nightmares..... I've been having success with a Lanni/Kraken deck that runs Valar and lots of saves. But I'm bored with it and want to get into jumpers. Just don't think I'll have success against that Stark deck.

I will try at some point just for the heck of it.