Baratheon HoD Control 1.0

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Nice. So you alternate between Castle, Throne, and Armory?

How have the match ups been?

I would guess the Armory can always be summoned with Devan.

Totally missed the Devan T_T. I meant for your HoD target?

Very interesting list! A couple of questions:

With 20 locations, how does the deck fare against Political Disaster?

Also, how often do you get to play the Selyse/TIBWHID combo? Since you have a decent number of Rhllor characters, have you also considered Seen In Flames?

I feel that a deck with such a heavy dominance orientation can't afford to run only 1 copy of The Iron Throne. What if you lose it to, say, Pillage or location control? Your main way of getting dominance is lost to you forever,

@KhosroTheGreatThe reason why The Iron Throne is so important for the deck is why it is the location to be fetched with The House With the Red Door. And once that is your plan having more than one of them in the deck is detrimental.

That said, our testing seemed to indicate that The Red Keep might be an even better target for The House With the Red Door.

Thank you all for your quick replies!

@Samurai7: Ive only just targetted the Throne as of now. So far the feedback has been that against character heavy decks this performs very well. Against matchups that dont care about setting up a board it varies. If their power gain is low I usually come up on top.

@IonGrey: Political Disaster isnt so bad due to agenda protecting the throne and The Red Keep and Chamber being easily duped. I just try to hold one econ card back for that scenario. Seen In Flames has been in the deck, but Selyse is rarely around for long so i've switched them to The Hand's Judgment for some extra control and protection. The combo you mention is my optima scenario. However, since I usaully draw a lot of cards I try some other ways to cycle Selyse Baratheon (FotOG) such as Spears of the Merling King, Fallen from Favor or Valar Dohaeris.

@KobalThat makes me kinda glad because I tested some earlier version of the deck with The Red Keep. However so far this is proving more reliable, as with the current build I might struggle with winning power sometimes, which causes the agenda to be only a liability. With a different build, the Keep may prove the better indeed.

As a note, I have since switched Stannis Baratheon (Core) for Stannis's Cavalry. Its not as much of a blanket non stand, but Stannis was hurtin myself sometimes.