Blood of the Unburnt: 1st Place PDX August Tournament 1.0

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Once again a great deck made by a great person ;)

With that many events I tend to desire a Tourney Grounds or two to go along with the cost, but perhaps you have found that the extra gold as you pointed out was enough just from the agenda.

Had you considered that when constructing?

Cool man I've been playing with Targ summer myself and it's awesome. I'd scrap a jhogo if u want another illyrio tbh. But honestly how did you survive the Lannister onlslaught without milk? Can't rely on 2 nightmares for blanking

@Bronze I did consider 1x Tourney Grounds, actually. I can see having it instead of the Shadowblack Lane.

@Gbaeby I was thinking about swapping either a Jhogo or Littlefinger for a second Illyrio. Against Lannister, you're going to have a tough time just like everyone does, but at least you have options to combat them between Dracarys!, Stealth, and card draw through Funeral Pyre. The 3x Fire and Blood are good here too.

@mattastrophicHow did the Shadowblack performed? third of your events you are not able to get with the location. Also how was the set up?

In my current summer build I run 2x Beggar King. I think it will slot right in here as well with the 2x Summer Harvest.

I think that with the agenda you target only few Summer plots for the Income and the rest of the time you get Value out of all the events that you can hold with the high Reserve. Beggar King also allows you to run Counting Coppers and Reinforcements.

Thanks for sharing the list. No Mirri is interesting.

@uBaHShadowblack Lane didn't come up all day, unfortunately. Setups were pretty good, due to all the duplicates and the way the curve is set up. Thanks to not having Mirri Maz Duur, there are only three 7-costers that require narrow setups, while there are a bunch of 4g and 5g costs to make them smooth.

As for Beggar King, I thought about it while building this, and I realized that it would be better with a different plot lineup, likely in a Fealty build.

@scantrell24Mirri isn't necessary at all. She is 7g, she relies on small boards, she doesn't synergize with the rest of deck at all beyond Syrio and maybe Dracarys!, and she can only cause you to lose friends.

losing friends is part of the game

This deck has been really good for me.

Shadowblack Lane wasn't to great, i feel that revealing the card you draw makes it harder to surprise the opponent. I do see mirri is not required, but this deck generates toon of money, others expensive cards could be included. I found very nice to have a second Magister Illyrio.

Do you find it hard to deal with Winterfell, The wall and some other locations? i was thinking maybe including a pyromancers. That's the only thing bugging me about the deck.

This deck is cash money. Literally. I had a small store tournament yesterday and decided to take something completely new figuring I’d rather go 0-3 and have fun than 3-0 and play Lannister. Net decked this the night before with a few small changes and won it. (My first championship even if it was small. Got the Dany cards and Targ tokens which was fitting.) Here are the changes I made:

+1 Illyrio, -1 Jhogo. I loved having Illyrio and would do this again, but I was at times feeling the pinch from not having enough Bloodriders in the deck. It was nothing to trigger Illyrio and if there were a card in the deck that could trigger in multiple phases… Still, I think this was a net positive. The forthcoming devoted Bloodrider might help this if I can find room.

+1 Tourney Grounds, -1 Shadowblack Lane. This was a mistake. I had Tourney Grounds out twice early and still never needed it. One time I considered triggering it going into challenges, but then thought “why bother”? I understand the “surprise factor” discussed above, but this deck has the ability to bury your opponent in card advantage (Doreah + Dany ftw!) and so I think Shadowblack is the right call.

+2 Milk, -2 Nightmares. This was mostly because I know I’m not so good at choosing the best time to play Nightmares and I like the lasting effect of Milk. On the whole I think it was the right choice for me that day.

The crowning achievement (ahem) was making a tripled Tyrion king via molten gold. Felt so good. Another time I played Summer Harvest into my opponents Trading. I had to use dice to keep track of the gold! Which brings me to one more change I would like to try: -1 Summer Harvest, +1 A Song of Summer. The +1 str bonus was consistently great and often forgotten by my opponents leading to challenge and dominance wins. Especially screws them up when Dany is out.

One other thing is Funeral Pyre. I don’t want to make too many kneejerk reactions to three games, but if you are looking for events to swap out you might start here. Certainly changing one for the coming Blood of my Blood is something I will try.

Great job Matt!

Hey Matt, think we could have a small chat one of these days?

@Bullroarer Took That is great news! Congratulations!

I am unsure of how this deck will evolve with Devoted Bloodrider and Blood of My Blood coming out. With the Lannister box coming as well this month, I have intentionally waited to consider this topic, because we are going to get so many new cards in a short time.

@MythoS I would love to! I'll stay signed in to the Discord chat during the day. Would hitting me up there work?