Stark Fealty - 3-2 on swiss, made it to top 4 1.0

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Tournament report - Zagreb, Croatia SC on 29th of May. Deck is made to be played a bit defensive in the beginning, and control your opponent with catelyn and winterfell. Then, when you have your big guys out, close it fast with renown.

I went 3-2 in swiss on 10 player tournament, made it in to top 4 cut and lost in semifinals against bara - sun deck. (Last two chapter packs of the first cycle weren't legal).

Round 1 - Baratheon banner of the Sun - WIN As far as I remember I had a very good setup (5 cards or so), including duped Robb. I got all the major characters out one by one, (blackfish, robb, fast eddy and cat) and i also had Winterfell which was a real advantage. My opponent didn't see mel the whole game and through wardens shenanigans, renown and one early superior claim i was able to finish it quite easily.

Round 2 - Martell banner of the Rose -WIN first two rounds i was mostly defending, with very few characters on board, as i played winterfell instead of a major characet. After round two I got to play big guys (though i had a lot of luck on my opponent's heads on spikes). He didnt see any economy card whole game except a kingsroad on round one which of course i didnt complain about. I also managed to frozen solid his Ghaston. Renown fellas wrapped it up in the end.

Round 3 - Lannister banner of the Sun - WIN (last one for today unfortunately) Today's champion's only defeat. He got Jaime put in round one, i had Eddard as i remember + some small chuds. He was gaining quite some power + managed to put in cersei and tywin cleaning my hand. I wildfired and managed to Ice Tywin out what turned the game on my side and i managed to close it. Catelyn and Winterfell saved me from tears and Lanni shenanigans.

Round 4 - Bara fealty - LOSS He got Stannis out in the first round with bodyguard on, and mel in third i think. I decided to Ice Mel since Stannis had bodyguard and then i dont know why I played confiscation to remove his bodyguard (?!?!) anyway misplayed my plots, he then milked eddard and robb and totally locked my board and slowly he won the game thourgh dom with chamber since i couldn't do anything... didnt see cat or blackfish at all.

Round 5 -Greyjoy LOTC - LOSS This deck was a beast, he also got in to Semifinals and lost there against the champion. I milked his Balon and Theon but he removed the balon one. He played Seal of the hand on Balon as well, i removed it with confiscation but he played another on same turn... didt see any economy nor intrigue icon at all the whole game. I had winterfell which was rather useless since he had practically no triggers. It was over quite fast.

Semifinals - Baratheon banner of the Sun (rematch) - LOSS I had greatest start imaginable - weenies + robb + jon snow... round 2 or 3 i was like 9-1 ahead but on round 2 Jon got tears on him... and from there everything went down, fat bob and mel jumped in kneeling my ass every turn and slowly he locked me and grabbed a win.

Funny thing is that all the 6 games i didn't see any Arya at all. Possible changes: In my fear of Naval + high initiative i decided for 2x calling the banners, maybe i would put something more ''gold certain'' there.

Arya's gift maybe would be a nice add on, for some milk manipulation.

Osha is fun but maybe unnecessary, or maybe i just didnt see her enough. Probably more stuff could be changed but it's quite situational, all in all it was fine :)

P.S. Special greeting to Michael who came all the way from Australia! :)