Loyal to the North 1.0

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Fairly standard Stark Fealty build. Deck is focused mainly on military aggro and high claim plots to control the early game and ride off of renown and Sansa for the wins. Early turns is focused on finding Robb and/or Catelyn to try and disrupt the opponent as much as possible. Follow this by getting Ice and some weenies for claim soak and boosts to challenges strength. Once in the mid game, ride the Luwin/Robb draw train and/or the Gates to keep cards coming and the pressure up.

Depending on board state and hand, it’s good to either open with Calm or Sneak. Calm is a good default plot to have an easy turn of no military against you to set up. However, if you can get Ice and Robb or Eddard from set up and turn one marshal, Sneak can be a great option to wipe a board, especially with Winter is Coming. Following either up with Here to Serve to get a tutored intrigue defender (or attacker as the case may be) makes it easy to keep up or turn on the pressure. Combined with high claim plots and nasty tricks like Winter and For the North!, this deck can ride a strong early game to an easy victory. Though the ideal setup going into turn one challenges is Robb with Ice, Arya and Catelyn make a strong enough pair to start as well.

One flex slot that is mostly personal taste is Like Warm Rain. I personally like this card as it turns a disadvantage of low intrigue into a potential swing. With a standing direwolf, it can make an opponent think twice about pushing an intrigue when they may lose a key character. It could be switched perhaps for more targeted kill like Put to the Sword where this deck should have no trouble early on getting Mil by 5 or more. With 5 cards that boost strength and so much Mil icons, it can be hard for an opponent to keep up with that.

Overall the deck has been quite solid and over the 10 to 15 games this deck has seen, it’s lost only once. A strong contender for going into Store Champ season.