Kings of Sea and Storm: 1st Place PDX Worlds Weekend tournam

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Derived from
Kings of Sea and Storm: 2nd Place Glasgow Regionals 7.30.16 8 5 3 2.0
Inspiration for
BaraKraken (1st at Neovalhala store Championship) 2 1 2 1.0
New deck: House Baratheon 0 0 0 1.0

mattastrophic 719

image"What the kraken grasps it does not lose, be it longship or leviathan."

This is the deck I took to a local tournament in Portland, Oregon on Worlds Weekend, and went 5-1 with it for the day. The brutal loss was to a very military-focused Lannister/Kings of Summer deck.

With the Lions of Casterly Rock box just released, Victarion Greyjoy immediately struck me as something I wanted to try out alongside Robert Baratheon, due the built-in self-save and the Intimidate. I also wanted to experiment with Disputed Claim, especially when played on Asha Greyjoyor Melisandre. Edric Storm seemed to have synergy with the aggressive playstyle of Baratheon/Kraken, and could help with keeping Disputed Claim active.

Time of Plenty also seemed like a great plot for Baratheon. Baratheon tends to be more concerned with drawing Melisandre, Robert Baratheon, R'hllor cards, and #The Red Keep than with what their opponents draw. The 6g and 7 reserve also looked very nice.

My main concern going into building this deck was affording Victarion. My previous versions of this deck had Asha as the highest-cost Greyjoy characters, while this one was going to have 5g Asha and 6g Victarion. I decided to go with the 6x-reducer option, but it took some tough sacrifices to fit the Iron Islands Fishmongers in there. Three slots for Victarion ended up costing six slots in total, as I had to drop Moon Boy, Littlefinger, and a second copy of Theon Greyjoy.

Trading with the Pentoshi was there to help with affording Victarion and Barristan, but the 3g given to the opponent proved to be a liability, with the exception of my Top 4 match against Night's Watch. There, I wasn't concerned with what he marshalled, while I really wanted to get Robert Baratheon and Asha on the table as soon as I could. The plot deck could use a little bit of tweaking.

I chose Here to Serve over Confiscation because I have discovered that in the matches where I really want attachment removal, I need repeatable attachment removal for dealing with Milk of the Poppy, Craven, Imprisoned, and Condemned. And if I had already drawn Maester Cressen, I could fall back on Maester Wendamyr and his valuable Stealth keyword.

Going forward, I would like to play with the number of Fishmongers and economy in the locations and plots. I might try to squeeze in a The Stone Drum or a Littlefinger. I am looking at swapping Trading with the Pentoshi for a Calling the Banners or A Song of Summer. With only 1x Barristan, A Noble Cause takes care of marshalling the big characters.

So, if you want to play a more aggressive Baratheon than the dominance-focused Fealty and Summer styles, and you want to play with some save effects going into a game with Valar Morghulis, give the Kraken a try!

6 comments

Rodgall 14

Nice review. Thanks. What are your impressions of Disputed Claim in your deck?

vexien 735

Congrats on another win with my favourite deck! :D

UniJustin 103

You mean "Lannistered"? ; )

MeatLoafX 22

I always like seeing your reports. Bara Kraken is a deck I love to come back to every once in a while and I like seeing your success. Now that you've had a chance to think about it, any more thought on the plot deck?

Rookie 8

Can I ask, why the lordsport ship wright? what combo or control am I missing?

mattastrophic 719

@Rodgall Disputed Claim is great! It's very easy to tip over to having more power on your house than your opponent. Stealth helps very much with getting an unopposed bonus, which pushes that power total even more. Keep in mind that the effect is constant, so if after resolving claim, you suddenly have more power, the renown takes effect in the keywords step.

@MeatLoafX At this point, I would only look at shifting A Noble Cause and Trading with the Pentoshi around. Pentoshi can probably let become Calling the Banners.

@Rookie The Shipwrights are very important. They are cheap intrigue icons, which means that you can make unopposed intrigue challenges in the early game or prevent unopposed intrigue challenges. They also are used to kneel Ghaston Grey against Martell. And it's also great to kneel your opponent's Kingsroads to slow down their start.