Pillage Ahoy! - 3rd place, 2018 MTL Regionnal (BD Cosmos) 1.0

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Many seemed curious how Greyjoy Greensight could take 3rd place in a Regional Championship, so here it is. Sorry for the delay, I wanted to wait after the Regional season to publish this decklist.

For what it's worth, I think a better deckbuilder or pilot than I could do well with this by tweaking it. The deck is not optimized at all. I had no time to practice so I took the same deck I brought to our team tournament a few weeks before, I preferred to go with something comfortable rather than hot. I made a few tweaks (added in Hagen's Daughters) before going, and that was that.

I have to go from memory here, so if people recognize themselves and notice mistakes in write ups on my part, feel free to let me know. It was also a very long day for all of us (the tournament started later due to many repairs and a technical issue with Jousting Pavilion and a deck check before the cut) and it was very hot. Come to think of it, this might explain why people were making so many mistakes during the matches.

Round one: Martell - The Wars to Come (win) I can't remember what I had on the board but i remember having either Asha Greyjoy (Km)or Euron Crow's Eye and Corpse Lake. She took control over the Board with Ellaria Sand (SoD) but had a board full of unduped uniques so I quickly decided to reset. I Valared and saved my board while she top decked for the rest of the game into dead dupes before she had time to set up the Doran's Game I kept on top of her deck from Greensight. I think she would've been fine if she had played more conservatively, maybe she thought she had to outrace Corpse Lake, I can't tell.

Round 2: Tyrell - The Wars to Come (loss) I knew Michael was playing Tyrell for a while now, under different agendas (Fealty, Kings of Summer, Crossing, Rains...) and he is pretty familiar with the green cards. I figured racing mace for Power or the Septon Oldtown combo would be a tall order. The match was filmed but Rob's card was corrupted I believe. Basically, I could not close the game before he ran into the Scheming Septon and Oldtown combo. I Valared (M) his board but he just reflooded full of renown characters anyway. I remember Ser Garlan Tyrell (HoT) being a thorn on my side for a few turns with a whole bunch of 2 claim military from which I could not recover. It felt weird to be aggro'ed by Tyrell, I didn't expect that to happen. I should've probably played more defensively as well, but I think i was trying to close it before his board and power gain was difficult to manage.

Round 3: Stark - The Wars to Come (win) Can't remember the first few turns, but Matt seemed pretty surprised when I Pillaged his Ward, and stole Catelyn Stark (Core) with Pay The Iron Price on a Valar Morghulis turn. It went pretty quick from there.

Round 4: Stark - The Wars to Come (win) He had Sansa Stark (Core), and a few other Stark characters on the board with some renown. I remember having stolen Sansa with his pillaged Ward thanks to Pay The Iron Price and he proceeded to Confiscate it the next turn, Froze my Corpse Lake, and attached a Milk of the Poppy on Euron. I played Weapons at the Door the next turn and Nighttime Marauders came out of shadows forcing him to discard all these attachments plus his Bodyguard. That was some fun attachment control! He could not keep up the race in power at that point.

Round 5: Stark - The Wars to Come (win) My first ever match against James Booker. He seemed to have controlled the match early on with a lot of Military challenges. Valar M and Corpse Lake kindof sneaked up on him I think. I won on Renown and Power claim during a You Win Or You Die turn.

Top 8: Targaryen - The Wars to Come (win) This match is up on Rob St-John's youtube channel. I made so many mistakes during that match, I was constantly trying to dance around his burn in my head. I even forgot to discard a card for reserve turn one i think, I don't think it would've made much of a difference though since I had a few cards that I had trouble paying for early on. Anyway, I basically tried to play defensive and patient. I threw chump challenges with Hagen's Daughter to make his burn pointless, made sure to choose the right targets to remove with Tris Botleyearly on and played more conservatively while trying to win dominance as often as I could. I knew he would not let a single unopposed challenge while I had a gold left (to avoid me recurring Pay The Iron Price and taking his Crown of Gold so it would force him to be defensive as well. Silence's Crew, Hagen's Daughter and Aeron Damphair (Core) were MVP this game.

Top 4: Tyrell - The Wars t Come (loss) Again... so many mistakes. There were so many triggers I had to think of on both sides, trying to count to win dom most turns. I believe I could have won that game had I not made one of two mistakes. The first was removing his copy of Varys (Core) using Tris Botley, this prevented my from completely clearing his hand with my two Nighttime Marauders later on. The second mistake was the last plot of the game; I should've played a high initiative plot like You Win Or You Die (combined with the double claim) or Weapons at the Door while duping my King of Salt and Rock. In any case, if was a very bloody match. Go check it out, its up on Rob's channel.

So there you have it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I don't think I'm a particularly good player or deckbuilder, but I am lucky to have made it this far with that deck I believe.

Congratulations to Michael for being undefeated throughout the day, thanks to Rob St-John for filming the matches and big thanks to everyone who showed up to play cards on that hot day.