Sunbathing Lions, Winnipeg Regional Winner, Undefeated

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efay 23

I've been playing around with different iterations of Martell for the past few months and settled on Lion (like a lot of people have, apparently gold is good to have in this game or something). This was the list I ended up with after discussing the deck with a few people and just kind of playing what I like. We had a total of 11 players for the event, we have a smaller player base than a lot of areas, but it's been growing recently which is great. Overall I ended up going undefeated through the day going 3-0-1 in Swiss playing against Stark/Fealty, Targ/Lion, and Lanni/Kraken. In the top 4 cut I played against Stark/Fealty (different from swiss) in the semis, and the same Targ/Lion from Swiss in the finals. And yes, I ran 62 cards, I'm perpetually guilty of struggling to cut cards, so I just played it like this.

MVP card for the day I would say was Imprisoned. That card does so much work against all the heavy military decks and really lets you take control of challenges, particularly when paired with Attainted and Nymeria.

I only got Harmen out in a game or two but I feel like he's worth exploring some more in the future, particularly if we get more Sand Snakes. The ambush ability alone is fantastic and allowed me to ambush in Nymeria during one game thanks to gaining gold through Tyrion, and having Bastard Daughters come out to defend a challenge is fantastic.

So yeah, nothing really original here, but it's definitely a solid deck to play and can be a lot of fun if you like the control side of things.

4 comments

YEEZUS 53

Sweet deck, congrats on your win! Any changes you would make, like a second Harmon or Ilyn Payne? Any thought of Pyromancers to bring in with Arianne?

efay 23

@YEEZUS In future I would probably go with a second Harmen, especially if they come out with more Sand Snakes. Even without I found him to be fairly useful and worth exploring more, I just didn't have time for testing him much.

I opted for a second Jaime instead of second Ilyn Payne. Based on how it played I found Jaime more useful but there is a number of people's decks that go the other way.

Pyromancers. I feel this card suffers from the issue of slots and minor number of targets. You could splash a single but how often are you going to see that come up? And if it does will it be useful? Winterfell you can play around (especially with 2x Winter plots). Nightmares also lets you play around Catelyn and Winterfell. Its possible in the future this might be more worthwhile, but for what I experienced I didn't see anything I would switch out to play Pyromancers.

Amoon 1

Well done on your victory! With Intrigue icons being the fewest by a lot, did you miss the House Dayne Knight, which i assume you exchanged for the Bastard Daughter?

efay 23

@Amoon thank you! Didn't miss House Dayne Knight really. With the icon striping most times they have little to no intrigue at all, and usually I'd go out of my way to kill those characters off first if possible to free up Nymeria for other things. The Bastard Daughter tend to do double duty a lot of the time in being a defender and also helping remove cards from their hand. I had run the deck with a House Dayne Knight or two in previous versions but honestly this version worked better for me.