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This list was taken from a Facebook post (sorry, I forget who from) with an educated guess at Tamás Albeck's winning deck from Varberg Morghulis. I don't think I made any tweaks to the version that was posted.
I made the trip over from New Zealand to attend Australian Nationals for both Game of Thrones as well as Star Wars, as they were being held on the same weekend and there are no Nationals for AGoT back home (and no tournaments at all for SW). Leading into the tournament I had put a lot of prep time into Star Wars, but Thrones had fallen by the wayside a bit due to limited time and schedules for my local playgroup not working out. With that in mind I was intending to play Lanni Dragon, as I'd played it a few times and it felt like a sensible choice with limited practice. I'd taken a few decks over with me to practice with and in case I changed my mind, and on the morning of the tournament I decided to throw logic out the window and go with a slow deck requiring careful decisions that I had limited experience with, i.e. the opposite of what normally works for me. I was already hungover which is something else I normally avoid before tournaments, so why not keep the bad decisons rolling, right?
Round 1 : W vs Greyjoy Banner of the Sun
Round 2 : W vs Night's Watch Banner of the Wolf
Round 3 : L vs Stark Fealty
Round 4 : W vs Targaryen Fealty
Round 5 : L vs Lannister Kings of Winter
I'd only managed to watch about half of the first game of the Varberg finals and I'd tested it out a handful of times, so I had some idea of how the deck was supposed to be played, but I was definitely still figuring out how to play it more effectively as the tournament progressed. I exceeded my expectations by going 3-2, with both losses being pretty competitive games. Despite all the card draw I wasn't able to find enough character control attachments against Stark or Lanni, and they were able to rack up renown before I could stop them.
After getting into the flow of the deck I felt I had a gameplan, specifically how to close out games with Winter Festival ideally followed up by a Wildfire for Benjen (obviously after gaining power via The Wall and hopefully Iron Throne). As I had read about, the deck requires a lot of small but important decisions such as when and what to discard to Old Forest Hunters, when to prioritise card draw over board presence, etc. I'm sure I got plenty of those decisions wrong. At least I was spared some brainpower during the challenges phase, where most of the furrowed brows came from my opponents deciding if and how they could get past my defenses.
After playing 5 different factions on the day I felt like the deck had the tools to handle pretty much anything. The most notable omissions were Bara and Martell control decks, so I don't have much idea about those matchups.
MVPs for me on the day were the locations (no surprises), Old Forest Hunter, and Dolorous Edd. Even though I probably only sprang Edd two or three times, the threat of him was always there for my opponents. Sadly I didn't see Craven or Milk that often on the day, but I know how vital they are to the deck.
The Australian players were a great bunch of people to play Thrones and hang out with, so I thoroughly enjoyed the event. I also have no regrets about my deck choice - it was fun and interesting to play, effective, and a refreshing change from the big character decks.