The Bastard of Winterfell 1.0

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You guys ready for a Night's Watch fealty build?!?!

I still think it's an incredibly marginal deck, but I decided, with the release of Syrio and the Unsworn Apprentice, that it was finally time to test out a Jon Snow deck and see if he is worth playing yet.

My logic is, with a Jon Snow deck, there was never enough icon efficient Night's Watch characters to guarantee more than 1 challenge with Jon Snow.

Too many monocons and too often, unless you flood the board, you were incredibly restricted with what challenges Jon was able to participate in.

But now with the unsworn apprentice, Jon can basically enter any challenge he wants, as long as he has his young friend with him. Did they not leave up enough military strength to stop a 6 strength mil attack? Give the apprentice a mil icon and attack!

Syrio makes it even better because he is on demand stealth as well as on demand military icons, making all your monocons a little more flexible.

So with those two new cards, along with Trading with the Pentoshi to ensure you can get all your characters and Jon out at the same time, makes this deck at least worth thinking about again.

I'm running building orders and Summons because I want to see some Unsworn apprentices and Jon as well as Longclaw as soon as possible.

Power Behind the Throne will be for those turns late in the game where you have your Jon and Longclaw and a few guys set up. This makes kneel not completely destroy the deck. It isn't ideal, but without Seals of the Hand and no other way to stand characters (seriously, when are they going to print some stand for Night's Watch? They need it bad...) it'll help a lot to make sure Jon Snow isn't short circuited.

Trading with the Pentoshi, Calling the Banners and Calm Over Westeros will be your big money plots and the ones you'll rely on to get Jon and his friends out. The deck is pretty expensive. Again, this will need to be calibrated I'm sure, just like my Night's Watch Banner of the Sun deck. Summons and Building Orders in the same deck can really affect your econ.

The Watch has Need will be another search for Jon. Unfortunately, it can't search for the Apprentices, but it can be used to find a ranger if you want to do a military attack that round or another steward if you want to have Aemon or Sam.

I included 3 Walls but that is a very secondary strategy if Jon is killed somehow. Ideally, you don't want to have to rely on it, as NW fealty can't reliably defend the Wall.

I hate not having Iron Thrones, but it is necessary to keep the econ up.

I haven't tested this deck yet, but I think it will, at the very least, be a fun little deck to play with and a departure from the typical Wall deck that I build.

I could build a non Night's Watch deck and take the same departure but....eh.