The Fury of the Babies - Winner @Vignola Regional 1.0

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I love seeing that it is, in some ways, utilizing my old favorite sort of Lannister, the control Lanni with Supporting the Faith and Paid Off. <3

Syrio's Training on the opponent's character and a consecutive Forced March is so dirty, I love it.

I want to know, if there was an opponent who remembered what Paid-Off or Fever Dreams do without reading it.

@Zaramisehehheheh since you can search for them, why not? Supporting is always good to ensure that nothing will annoy you that turn (of course discard all the iron banks if you can). Reserve 4 hurts a but but it’s worth it. Moreover, paid off does its job and you can immediately replace it. @siegeszug they did read soooooo many cards... lol

@Nimer Thank you for the write up and congratulations on winning that tournament, this is a very intriguing deck and I also toyed around with the new Agenda a bit. I have some questions if you don't mind:

Could you go a bit more in depth about the general strategy?
I'm not quite sure why Ser Pounce is good (aren't most of the babies no-kneeling anyways or have the Intrigue icon?).

Could you elaborate on the Trading With Qohor order of triggers:
Would for example Turncloak trigger if it just got brought in by Trading With Qohor? Or do you only get things like Renown from Disputed Claim? Are you allowed to Bestow when bringing cards into play with Trading With Qohor?

Thanks a lot for helping me learn.

Amazing deck ! Congrats !

Good job mate. Congrats for making Lanni great again. Let's play soon :)

I knew you would come up with something amazing soon, but this is even better! 3x Ser Pounce = best deck ever! :-D

@Toaster the cat is crucial for the deck for several reasons: even if it's unique it fits perfectly for the agenda. It has ambush, so you can put it on a char, make the int challenge(s), sacrifice it to find something else, ambush it again if you have another one in hand the next turn, or on another character. The only "natural" non-kneeler is Myrcella, but against T1 decks it's almost impossible to have hand advantage in the first turns, and pounce plays a big role there. Sometimes they keep cards in hand to stop her, but you ambush the kitten and ruin their plans. There are also a lot of uniques wihtout int icon: Tanda, Tommen, Pylos, Cressen, Shireen... and also it's good against martell and the shadow city bastard, to give the int icon back to the character. It's also very good on pycelle to refill your hand. The order of trigger after you win a challenge is this: Reactions, Oppositions, Claim, Keywords, and the agenda is between step 3 and 4. It means that you must already have played turncloak: the good thing is that you steal the char and then sac the attach so he'll never take it back; the bad thing is that he will see it coming.

@argentoand @Lannisterthanks guys!

@Diomedes thanks mate!!! It's also your merit if I came up with this list to be honest: you did remind me that this game allows to be creative and competitive in a period when I was discouraged by the overefficiency of some houses and builds. Your amazing deck and showing gave me the courage to try to think out of the box again! ;)

No draw issues anyway? And stability with 75 cards even if the agenda help?

When you need to draw, you put fever dreams into play or play the plot and search for Pycelle. I think we found a good balance with this version of the deck in terms of stability. A couple of more limited could guarantee to have one turn 1 but I won many games without. The overall income of plots and Tywin also help. The problem if you add too many locations is that you could end up not drawing characters or attachments, which are crucial for the deck. The only game I lost was because I drew only one attachment, I cycled it a bit but the turn I was supposed to win the game with renown on Cersei he played his Cressen and discarded my only attachment... :( We though about City Gates but we had not enough time to test it.

@Toaster I forgot to answer about bestow: yeah you can bestow gold on the attachment when it enters play! ;)

I'm very happy to have sparked your fantastic deckbuilding fire, Nimer! :D This deck is really amazing, I think I need to see it in action before I can understand how it works. :)

Congrats for your win. Another amazing deck and well piloted. Keep up building with more such decks.

Oh boy, oh boy, is Lanni great again? Thanks Nimer!

I can't still figure out how on hell I could die by that stupid maester pylos :/ Well played as usual nimer!

Congratulations, and a great deck! I'm glad you like the agenda. =)

@Reimthanks mate! @SpiriT enjoy! :P @servetzhe could've been even more scary if you didn't nothing burn pounce and casterly rock turn 1... :P @jeermaster thanks Florian! Yeah when I saw it first I didn't like it that much... but when I noticed the banner trait....... <3. Well done, smart design!

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@Nimeryour thoughts about trading with Qohor? I heard from a very reliable source that is horrible, L L L e L L L #alwaysonthepiece

Not running 3 x Kevan? In 75 for card draw out of a faction that suffers for it, I think he's a solid choice. Especially if you factor in a Tower of the Hand.

Hi @Bambi! I would play 3 of him if I played Iron Bank, but I found no space (and no other uses besides queens men) for it. Kevan can help but also had downsides: makes the setup worse, has a bad cost/str ratio, is a lord that could stop lancel from being very strong (even if Lancel is 1x). I found cheaper characters to be more crucial than him during my tests to be honest, even if I considered the option.

Congratulations, looks like a really fun deck to pilot!

What are your thoughts on Isle of Ravens to allow re-use of sacrificed attachments?

Hi @Von Wibble and thanks! Isle of Ravens was 3x in the first version of the deck but I removed all the copies for more attachments. Unless you want to play an attachment more than 3 times in a game it is too slow, and I found that it was better to play more attachments than it.

Amazing deck building, congrats!

Quick question, is the banner of the stag that important for the deck to justify using Alliance, thus increasing the variance of the deck (75 cards vs 60 cards)?

Thanks in advance!

Hi @cadupa96! Well disputed claim is usually your win condition, and the rollor package helps with fever dreams, withering cold and having hand advantage, so I would say that the stag banner is crucial for this deck. Moreover, you need to play a lot of attachments and having 75 cards helps in having more balance between card types, so it’s not much of a drawback. You also start cycling attachments soon so you will likely draw non-attachments cards mid game.

I used this deck (first time I have netdecked, but it looked fun!) at a regional yesterday and came third, so thanks for posting! Interestingly in the meta we had (I faced Stark 5 times and Tyrell twice, no other games) the Bodyguards achieved little beyond being claim soak, I think I'd remove some for an extra Seized and Milk. I really liked having these 2 attachments on demand as it made Mace, Flea Bottom, and Wyman somewhat more trivial to deal with!

A card I'd also love to add would be a cheeky Ser Robert Strong, he seems a natural fit with all the kneeling? Lack of space is of course a problem, I think Tanda as often the deck wants to go first but she is better going second?

Hey @Von Wibble, you are welcome, congratz for the tournament! The bad thing about robert strong is that you dont have many other effects that need 5 gold during the challenge phase, so he is very predictable and also you have to keep gold for something that maybe you won’t want to trigger that turn. Tanda is great cause she holds all the key attachments so I wouldn’t remove her. About bodyguard vs milk and seized, I think that proportions of attachments are heavy meta dependant, so probably you would have benefit more of a third milk or second seized. I was expecting Martell with varys valar and many valar M in general so that was my decision.

I agree its a meta call on Bodyguards. For some reason (Wyman) Stark seem very popular right now - ironically with all teh stand they have available the only time Withering Cold really did anything all tournament was when my opponent revealed it! Also 2 cost Arya was popular.

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It s impressive how creative you are with the decks. Very inspiring . I dont play that much but when i see a new deck from you i jumb back to play it

@MadSirianthanks mate! Don't leave this game it's still amazing! :D