Martelling It Like It Is! 2nd Place Kilkenny Store Champions

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dqthemountie 63

I took this deck to 2nd place in the 16 player tournament in Black Kat Games in Kilkenny, Ireland. The deck performed very well throughout the day, losing 1 game in swiss to the eventual winner of the tournament with a Martell Stag dominance deck. Unfortunately, I played the guy I play most of my games/deckbuild/travel with in the first round. In swiss, I played against GJ Fealty (W), Martell Stag (L), Bara Lion (W) and Stark Fealty (W). In the semis, played against another Martell Stag deck and then on to the final against the dominance deck.

In the final, everything clicked into place Nymeria was double killed, once with Quentyn and once again with Heads on Spikes. Mel was dead also from Tears. Into the 5th round and he has enough on the Boneway, with the Iron Throne and Painted Table to take it in dominance phase, so he passed challenges to me.

I needed 4 to win. I have Doran's Game in hand, with Arianne and Nymeria in play. His only INT is Littlefinger whose icon I steal and I attack with only ONE of my characters!!!!!! Huge mistake, don't know what I was thinking and of course could not play my Doran's Game to take the victory and store championship. I learned hugely from this game and my opponent to be fair was gracious in his victory.

It was nice to see Martell doing so well in the tournament, with 4 players in the semis using them to varying degrees in their deck. All houses were represented apart from the NW sadly.

And of course, the Martell's will have their vengeance at Regionals. Maybe with a switch to Fealty.

11 comments

Aceidol 15

I have a deck very similar to this (running a couple more Characters, 1 more Areo, Varys, 1 less Viper and Obara and Milk and Attainted as attachments, as well as only 1 In Dorans Name. I went from Crossing to Fealty because I had issues at times getting all three challenges off and I like the difference. Only change I am considering now is maybe adding 2x Dornish to manipulate challenges late in game when I really want to win a power or military challenge at the expense of an intrigue when opponents have characters down with both an intrigue icon and one of the others.

scantrell24 3334

Congrats on the nice showing. How did you like Viper Eyes?

The 3rd Attainted and 2nd Doran's Game look like overkill (and setup killers) to me. Maybe cut them and then you have 60 cards?

dqthemountie 63

I agree, the 3rd Attainted was just too much. The 2nd Doran's Game I found worked well though, if only I remembered how much Str I needed to win by in the final

Cyggie 2

Congrats on doing so well and piloting a cool deck. I am inspired to give Martell a try!

With Vengeance for Elia out, how would you slot it in?

dqthemountie 63

Thanks all for the feedback. I feel that for me the best deck for Vengeance would be either Fealty or Banner Lion (no matter how much I dislike them

dqthemountie 63

In relation to what to take out for Vengeance, the In Doran's Name. Saves tapping the faction card, and with Fealty you probably wouldn't need the extra gold.

Cyggie 2

Great points and thanks for your response. I'll make some tweeks based on your suggestions.

r480 158

Grats on the showing! Good craic you have in the deck, just one thing: don't you miss Hand's Judgement in this deck?

I'm so jealous cos when I lived in Ireland no one played 1.0 :(

dqthemountie 63

Thanks r480! You should come back to Ireland, plenty of 2.0 players here now ☺Re: Hands Judgement, I can see where you're coming from, it's normally a card I find space for but I felt that with all the INT my opps would rarely get a chance to pull it off..... Of course in the final my opp pulls off an In The Name Of Your King saving his board state. Then I wished I had HJ

Beknirvana 184

I've been working on a deck like this for a friend but I was never able to make it work properly. I have a few questions if you don't mind.

1) I am seeing 15 cards that cannot be set up. Were you having a problem with the setup?

2) Was Doran's Game worth it? It always seemed like a gimmick card that was to unpredictable.

3) I always thought Counting Coppers would be an auto include because you could get so much cash from The Long Plan or In Doran's Name. Did you miss it at all?

dqthemountie 63

Hi Beknirvana. 1) Setup was not a problem at all. In 4/6 games I flopped Nymeria/Arianne with either Caleotte or Areo. Plus an econ card. The other 2 games saw me setup with a mix of low cost characters.

2) Doran's Name is valuable for Martell, considering the lack of Renown chars. If you can achieve a good board state and whittle down your opps hand, it shoild be hard for them to win an INT, allowing you to hold it in hand until the optimal time to play it. It would have won me the SC, however my lack of familiarity with the Martells saw me misread the card.

3) Counting . Confiscation and Counting fought it out for a spot in playtesting. Counting is a great card but with this heavily INT orientated decklll I found that I always had a hand and didn't need the draw. I didn't play Confiscation once all day, but it's really there to protect Arianne and Nymeria.