The Return of a Kindly Man__Stahleck 2024_2nd Place 1.0

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So I gave the deck another chance at this year's Stahleck and it was probably the right decision. I was really happy to make it to the finals. So it was my best performance at Stahleck.

I changed the following cards: 2x Shadow of the east instead of Qarth. Made it more flexible and is and was really good against Ward, opponents Queensguard and so on.

2x The Hand's Judgment instead of put to the sword. Good against Mutiny, Risen and so on. I don`t have to explain HJ ;)

Stahleck SWISS: The first time I didn't have a "final" in Swiss because I won 6:1. In the eighth round I played a "casual" game against Raius and he destroyed me with his wonderful NW/Fealty Attrition in about 10 minutes.

Top 32 Against Derbo with a special Greyjoy/Winter Deck. It was a close game and Derbo had his chances to win the game as well. The key for me was to win initiative and go first for kneeling his characters. He had the insidious Balon but after two or 3 rounds I had no living targets in the discard pile and no other cards of use. I saw that he forgot to pillage once and heard after the game that he forgot it three times. Could change a lot. So with a pot of luck I came to the next round

Top 16 vs Víctor marquina (Bara/Free Companies/Smuggler). A really cool and strong deck. I think it was really unlucky for him to face me because of my standing abilites with Queensguard and Plaza. Probbaly a bad matchup for him. When I remember correctly I had a duped Jaqhen with Queensgaurd turn 1 after his marshalling and was able to kill key characters. Due to his very strong playing skills, he managed to keep the game open for a long time and it was very close in the end and it was probably better for me that there were no more rounds.

Top 8 playing against Pulpodzilla with Greyjoy/SoB. I had my keycard against SoB very early, its [Varamyr Sixskins]. I gave him an attachment, stealth through my agenda and strength boost of 5 because of his ability. He could not trigger SoB a single time but the "you can not defend because you are too weak" Balon made a lot of troubles and he managed to get 14 power. So it was very close and every power was important in this game.

Top 4 Against Raius with NW/Fealty attrition. Such a nice guy with such a nasty but very strong deck. I lost against him in the swiss round with no chance to win. Now in the semifinal we had a very interesting and though game from the beginning until the end. I won 12:10 or something like that after 8 rounds in the dominance phase. Very good in this game was Lady Stoneheart. It showed that she is really good against ravens, Hobb, Recruiters and Yoren. Very cool and strong deck built by one of the best deckbuilders. Congrats my friend

Final vs "the champ" SerCarter NW/Uniting. I also lost against him in the swiss round so it could be another revenge for me but it wasn`t ;). I had after mulligan the worst setup I ever had in my thrones "career" ending with Gates of the moon and Queensgaurd in shadow. I was able to bring out in the first round Varamyr and Tormund as first player and I hoped not to face Yoren or Ramsey but what should I say Yoren entered the game :) and Tormund died. So at this point it was game over but its the final and so we would like to enjoy all the minutes until he had 15 power. I think it was in turn 3 or 4. Congrats SerCarter that was well deserved.

It was once again a great pleasure for me to spend the weekend in Bacharach playing, eating, drinking and laughing. Thanks to all sharing with me the experiences of THE ONLY GAME THAT MATTERS