Gen Con 4th after extended swiss Lanni Wolf 1.0

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After getting my badge Wednesday, I set to getting some games in to figure out a deck. I hadn't really played since Origins aside from 3 games at a "local" in Cleveland with a Stark deck. I had been knocked out of Origins top 8 by walking into Nate's Ice on the defense, twice (it was a long exhausting weekend hobbling around on a broken foot) So I figured that I had better learn how white cards worked.

I apparently needed to read a few more Stark cards, so I was testing a Stark fealty and a Martell Lion deck until 2am with Toggle, YEEZUS, and America. I wasn't really happy with any of my decks (even tried a Targ Xing which won its game, but was expressly told not to play)

So, unhappy with my main two decks, I decide to just play my Origins deck with a few changes. -1 Close Call, Jamie, PttS, Burned Man, Sansa, Nightmares (I think) +1 Long winter, Ilyn, Tears, Littlefinger, Seal, Trial by Combat To arrive at the deck above.

It only lost one game at Gen Con. Round 3 I play a first turn Ward on my opponents Hound and milk his Tyenne and Tyrion. Next turn he flips Weapons at the door insisting they all go to discard due to terminal. I didn't think so so raised my hand for a judge. One never came and he has the rule book open to terminal and I skim over it setting the words ... leaves play for any reason... discard... I say, damn that's good and continue the game and lose as Tyenne will murder most of the things I was drawing. If I am to be honest with myself though, I want in great shape at that point anyways. It takes me telling the story a bit before I'm corrected, but an still able to win the rest of my games making day two.

They tell us to show up at 1! Well there's a problem, the Star Wars tourney starts at 2. I had a round 1 bye so I was hopeful that the Thrones day 2 would be done in time (Origins day 2 started at 9:30) My genius self decides to go sign up for an 8AM D&D game because you don't waste time at Gen Con.

After hunting a band of witches I manage to go 3-0 day two. Round one was only due to Gregor lotto ripping a Ned (he had one in hand too) to kill a Jamie on a very even board state. My only relevant Gregor pull of the tourney. The next two games vs Bretton and Jon Palmer were leveraged early and I was able to close out before they got rebuilt.

So there I was, 4th seed going into the cut but Star Wars was about to start rd 2 so I have a choice to make. I ask 9th if they would like to play. I decide to drop from the cut and sit down just in time for Rd 2 Star Wars, letting Darknoj in as the 8th. Darknoj, the stand up guy that he is, brings me the mat afterwards.

Props -Seal was well worth the slot. Twice finding Ned to close out early and a twice on Tywin. -Trial by Combat won me a game vs Lanni GJ that I would have lost otherwise. That and a Tears cleared 5 really relevant units on a Long Winter turn. -Adding the extra Tears helped a lot with Gregor and Stannis etc. kills throughout the tourney.

It was great to see all the familiar and new faces. All my opponents were as pleasant as can be.