Stark Fealty - Louisville Regional Winning Decklist 6/4/16 4.0

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im guessing you didn't come up against any naval superiority, if you did, which plot would you switch out to help against it. as of right now you only have two plots that don't get hit by it.... neither you want to play first turn.

I didn't come across any. Generally, it's only a real problem if they have a setup Tywin or Arbor in order to play Naval without risk. If you suspect a Naval, play Noble Cause or Wardens. There are so many low cost Lords and Ladies that even if they hit, you can get out an Arya, Sansa, Bran, or Cat (with fealty) through Noble's reduction.

If you really felt the need for an opener that avoided Naval, I'd take out Summons or Confiscation. I only used confiscation once all day to remove a Condemned, but if attachments are rampant in your area, you probably need to keep Confiscation in.

would you consider adding back any of the heads on spikes? also what would you add in if a copy of the septa is removed?

I find Heads on Spikes to be most effective at 2x. At 2x you can push a minor discard theme and rely on at least one of them hitting. At 1x it's a bit too inconsistent.

If I removed a Septa that would put me at 60 cards, so I wouldn't necessarily replace her with anything else. Perhaps a tumblestone knight to increase the level of disposable chud.

Wasn't it a problem for you to use the Robb+Greywind/John "stand up comedy" with so few low cost characters in the deck?

Generally, not a big issue. It's true that I run low numbers of low cost characters to sacrifice, but the idea at that point is to use your characters to win/prevent the military challenge, then sacrifice what you would have used as claim-soak to stand everyone and get a second use of your characters.

I do think this deck would benefit from increasing the low cost guys. Perhaps dropping a ward to add a tumblestone knight.

Also, I was not shy about using Arya as claim-soak/sacrifice fuel. One reason I run the full set is that I can get double use out of her without having to hurt my board too much. She provides a nice 2 for 1 card advantage inherently.

Do you think you would lose a lot of effectiveness if you were to transition to a Fat Cat deck? This deck doesn't seem too far away from that at the moment, and although you would lose the Core Cat and the ability to block Mirri/Tyene etc to some extent, Fat Cat gives further power gain for your sacrifices and gives a beefy int icon to defend intrigues anyway? I appreciate it's a different deck and largely irrelevant to your success (congratulations!), but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts

You're right, it would be a different deck. A few thoughts:

1. By adding in Fat Cat, you're increasing your cost curve significantly and would likely need to cut something at the top end. Probably Fast Eddie.
2. The reason I like Core Cat so much is that it provides levels of redundancy to the action/trigger denial theme. For those games you don't see Winterfell, Core Cat's importance skyrockets.
3. It's true that Fat Cat might be ok to use to defend against Mirri/Tyene, but then you're using a 7 coster to combat 6/7 costers instead of a 4 coster. Part of Core Cat's draw is that subtle economic/tempo advantage.
4. The rest of the deck is very susceptible to Tears. If you're up against Martell or Lannister, Fat Cat won't be able to prevent them from winning Intrigue with Tywin/Tyrion and getting to trigger Tears.

It seems a Fat Cat deck would be better suited to a Rush style build whereas this build is a much more defensive/control oriented build.

Congratulations on the win. That was a tough field. Did you have any hand/draw choke with so few intrigue icons?

Generally, that was not an issue. The deck has decent draw between The Blackfish, Gates of Winterfell, and Bran/Summer.

The Little Birds definitely help the intrigue icons, as well as Septa Mordane/Arya. Wardens of the North also let you win Intrigue as long as you have one character to seed the challenge.

Really, the main way to combat Intrigue attrition is through Lady. If you have Sansa or Cat out, especially combined with Winterfell, you have 2 characters that can be as high as 7 STR. That's high enough to defend most challenges. Add in Septa Mordane, and Sansa becomes a 9 STR defender.

The main difficulty is if they have a stealthy Intrigue attacker (Tyrion) or can deny your intrigue icons (Nymeria). In these cases, Milk increases in value.

would you consider playing rattleshirt's instead of confiscation? (I fear I will run into a lot of Martell attachements) if so which card's place would they take?

I wouldn't run rattleshirt's instead of confiscation. The draw in Stark is not good enough to guarantee you will find your 1 or 2x rattleshirt's when you need them.

I could see an argument to run rattleshirt's in addition to confiscation if you are expecting a lot of negative attachments. However, it's hard to decide what to take out as you're already at 13 neutral cards and a lot of your stuff keys off the Stark affiliation. Perhaps dropping to 1 Syrio or reducing the number of little bird/winter is coming.

Thanks a lot, I played this deck at Prague Regionals and went 3rd out of 58. Lost once in swiss against targ/cross. (i put ice on Sansa, but got milk on syrio, twice, also didnt see any other big char expet Syrio) in top 4 I lost against Lanni/Sun, managed to get out Cat and Winterfell, But didnt really see any other useful char, pulled only Arya on Summons. Probably made a few misplays after a long day too.

Overall I was really happy and confident playing this deck. I hope you don't mind I straightforward copied it, was thinking about making changes, but couldn't find any that I would feel good about.

Congrats on your finish! No worries about net-decking. If I cared about people stealing the deck, I wouldn't have published it!

What were your experiences with it? Now that you've played some more games, do you see any changes you would have made?

I was playing with idea of more winter plots, or possibly old nan, to not block myself with winterfell. you really could use arya's stealth to push through that mil chall.