Greyjoy Rose - 2nd Place Iowa City Store Championship

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haerik 3

In a 9 person store championship, it doesn't take much to do well. We ran 3 rounds, cut to top 4. Here's how they went:

Swiss 1: Targaryen/Rose, Lose
Swiss 2: Bye
Swiss 3: Greyjoy/Watch, Win
Elimination 1: Lannister/Rose, Win
Elimination 2: Lannister/Sun, Lose

I have a lot of fun with this deck. Setup is always insane. 4 cards is a mediocre setup, 5 cards is average, 6 happens occasionally. I've never had a 7 card setup, but it's definitely possible. You want to try really hard to find Balon turn 1. He's not 100% necessary, but he helps a lot. Between the good setups and Summons, he shows up pretty regularly.

You want to go first as often as possible for the Iron Fleet Scouts and the Raiding Longships. These make it pretty easy to get unopposed challenges for The Seastone Chair, Great Kraken, and The Reader.

In a warmup game, I managed to get 9 strength Drowned Men. In the actual tournament I "only" made it to 8 strength.

Tyrell is mostly there for the intrigue icons and Margaery. Once The Lord of the Crossing agenda comes out I plan on trying that. Your first challenge can often be unopposed anyway, and it helps when you get to the third. Obviously I'd cut Sneak Attack in that build.

Nothing stood out as a dead draw, and the curve feels really good, but let me know if there's anything you think could improve this. I'm sure there's plenty I'm missing

2 comments

jbenz32 1

I like the deck! have you tried throwing in at least 2 Knight of Flowers? I know you're counting on locations to gets some drowned men strength but seems like this rush deck would struggle against the lanni rose - With brothel chicks and really be hurting againist some stagg kneeling effects. I would love to try it out. I'm gonna let my friend use my lanni-Rose deck against this one, see if I am correct.

haerik 3

I've considered him and Randyll, but I'm worried about the costs. Kneel could be a problem, but no one around here is playing much kneel so I haven't had a chance to try it. The Lannister/Rose game that I won he had two Brothel Madams out (they don't stack, but at that point I had to plan on it for the rest of the game), and it wasn't an issue. The curve is low enough that you can find a spare gold just about every turn as long as you plan ahead.

Thanks for the comments, let me know what you find after trying it out!