Tyrell "The Rains of Castamere"

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Jerrin 20

I went 3-0 in a small 8 person Store Championship in PA with this deck. There is My Claim was legal for this tournament, though mine didn't get here before the tournament so I had none of those cards (I likely wouldn't have used any of them regardless, I want to playtest Caswell's Keep before I would make it a permanent part of the deck).

I played 3 different factions and styles of play and the deck performed well in all of them. I faced a Night's Watch Kings of Winter deck (Varys and Night Gathers... themed), a Lanni/Kraken deck (Valar Morghulis and saves with Lanni good characters) and a Bara Kings of Summer deck (kneel).

In playtesting, this deck was a monster when The Arbor is setup and about 50/50 when it wasn't (this may be because I would normally just blindly mulligan in testing if I didn't see The Arbor, if only to see how well it works in a worst case scenario). I didn't mulligan all day, though I only saw The Arbor on setup in the second game, so it performed well even without it out right away.

2 comments

Raziehl 1

How did you manage Valar Morghulis or very aggressives decks? Only with dupes? or with few military icône upgraded by many ways?

Very interesting deck ...

Jerrin 20

@RaziehlValar Morghulis isn't scary at all in my opinion. The tempo hit to the person playing it is so great that it is nearly a death sentence to play it. I'm not saying it is always bad, there will be some decks that are built to aggressively play it and play it well. Regardless of how I feel about it, you just have to get a feel for whether your opponent is playing it or not and be able to predict when it is coming so that you can be set up to come back harder than your opponent. Just from the game against the Lanni/Kraken in this tournament, I played a lot of characters, including The Queen of Thorns and Randyll Tarly in the second round while holding onto Renly Baratheon (FFH). I knew he would valar (he had a duped Ser Ilyn Payne and a Tywin Lannister (Core) with Bodyguard for after valar), so I dropped Counting Coppers and played Renly Baratheon (FFH) and from the card draw and economy I out rushed him to 15 (he hit 13).

When you talk about aggressive decks, I'm assuming you are talking about murder decks, so with them, it is dupes and stalling. The economy and draw in this deck is going to outpace anyone you play and if they don't win in 2 rounds or so, they normally have to over commit to push through anything (the threat of strength pumps helps in this regard). When they are kneeling everyone to do anything, it makes the game go really fast in my favor. This type of deck is probably the hardest matchup, but it is still winnable with a good idea of what you are trying to do early against it.