Bastards of the Sea 1.0

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I was able to win a small Store Championships at Tellurian Games, Dortmund, Germany with 12 participants with this deck. We played four rounds without a cut. I will try to give a brief overview of the games I played:

1. Round vs. Barti with Baratheon Fealty:

A week early I played the "final" in a small GNK against Barti with almost the same decks and got destroyed because I wasn't able to draw any economy.

I don't really remember the setups but I think I had something like Asha Greyjoy, a Lordsport Shipwright and a Sea Tower. I put down Trading with the Pentoshi for the first turn and was able to get out Balon Greyjoy, Maester Caleotte and The Seastone Chair while he played Melisandre and The Red Keep. I got an unopposed challenge through and We Do Not Sow his The Red Keep, cancelling his The Hand's Judgment with my own. During the following turns Barti was able to kneel a lot of my stuff but finally ran out of cards while I was able to keep him from winning thanks to Nymeria Sand. Balon Greyjoy together with the The Seastone Chair sniped his Stannis Baratheon and allowed me to win the game in turn 6 with Rise of the Kraken.

2. Round vs. Martin/Darkblue with / Greyjoy/Sun:

Yay, Mirror Match! Both of us got out Balon Greyjoy during the first marshalling phase, Martin went first and sadly managed to destroy my The Seastone Chair with We Do Not Sow. In the following turns The Reader and Littlefinger gave me some much needed card draw while Martins especially in the later turns were really bad (last two turns for him were three reducers and a The Roseroad). I think he also never had a character with an Icon on his side. The card advantage finally gave me board control and Rise of the Kraken won me the game.

3. Round vs. Martin/neball with Baratheon Fealty:

Martin got out a creative setup with no characters but The Red Keep and Chamber of the Painted Table while I think, I had Asha Greyjoy and a Maester Caleotte. His draw after the setup was really bad and his first turn was Littlefinger with two small guys. Asha Greyjoy + The Seastone Chair quickly killed of Littlefinger and another character was Marched to the Wall. Martin was never able to get out one of his key characters and Rattleshirt's Raiders + The Seastone Chair let me always choose which character I wanted to kill. His The Red Keep never triggered and the game was over in turn 4 or 5.

4. Round vs. Michael with Targ Fealty

Michael and me were the only ones with 3 wins so far, so this game would decide over the winner of the tournament.

Michael had a Ser Jorah Mormont, Viserys Targaryen, Unsullied and The Kingsroad for his setup. My setup after a mulligan was The Reader, Maester Caleotte and The Roseroad. We both put down A Noble Cause, which he used to play Daenerys Targaryen while I put out Euron Crow's Eye and a Bastard Daughter. During a challenge with Unsullied he tried to Dracarys! Euron Crow's Eye but I was able to save him with Risen from the Sea. The Hand's Judgment would have ended the game really quickly here.

My Lordsport Shipwright was able to get through an challenge and discard Plaza of Punishment from his hand. The perfect target for Euron Crow's Eye who after a Milk of the Poppy in turn 2 was able to steal the Plaza for me in turn 3. Michael collected a lot of power during the following turns with Daenerys Targaryen + Seal of the Hand and 2x Power Behind the Throne, while I tried to slow him down as much as possible with Nymeria Sand, Maester Caleotte and Confinement.

He never saw any economy after the first The Kingsroad and was not able to play Khal Drogo until he put down Calling the Banners in turn 6. Luckily he also never got his hands on another Dracarys! or Crown of Gold but was still able to get to 14 at the end of turn 6, while I got to 12.

Last plots: My Trading with the Pentoshi vs. his Counting Coppers. Thanks to my 2x The Kingsroad (one was stolen from him by Euron Crow's Eye) I got the ini and could snag the win with a power challenge from Balon Greyjoy and Euron Crow's Eye.