The Wolves are loose! 1.0

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The goal of this deck is to keep the board small by means of targeted kills and events that raise the claim value. Once the opponent's board is clear or on 1 or 2 characters, keep the pressure with 2 claim plots or Marched to the Wall.

First the plots, A Noble Cause is useful for getting the likes of Robb Stark (Core) or Eddard Stark (WotN) or The Blackfish out if you have them in hand + some economy.

A Time for Wolves has Summer or any of the other direwolf cards as a target or else Nymeriaor Lady.

Marched to the Wall can serve to punish a player who plays only his big character with a dupe on setup, while you have 2 or 3 'chuds' out. Or when you've thinned the board out to one character, to completely wipe it.

Both Sneak Attack and The Long Winter serve to keep the pressure high.

Close Call is a extra insurance against Valar, when I have no dupes out for my big characters. It also serves as possible card draw.

Wildfire is a partial reset, I've chosen this one over Valar because of the higher gold, higher initiative.

Locations are only econ locations, all my tricks are in my characters and attachments. Bear Island triggers of itself and can give some extra gold which might make the difference. For instance when you have Winter Is Coming in hand.

Attachments: 3x Ice to have targeted kills and a nice strength boost. 2x Needle for strength boost and the interaction with Arya Stark (WotN). Nymeria is movable intimidate and Lady is there to have another Direwolf card and the strength boost is also nice.

Events: 3x Put to the Sword and 3x Winter Is Coming for raising claim and keeping the board small. Like Warm Rain is there to counter intrigue challenges. Arya's Gift allows me to move Ice/Needle or some negative attachment to another character.

Characters: 3x Winterfell Steward purely for econ.

3x Bran for cancelling events. Also, his sacrifice can work with Robb's abilty.

3x Eddard for Renown and he's a solid body.

3x Blackfish, he's good target for Ice/Needle/Nymeria. And he has conditional card draw.

3x Robb because of renown and he can stand the board.

2x Grey Wind, possibly to kill off a chud, intimidate is also a nice keyword.

2x Wolves of the North: granted, they're a bit expensive for what they do but stealth is always nice to have. The amount of direwolf cards in the deck might put their reaction to good use.

2x rickon stark, at first he wasn't included but after I read a review on cardgamedb he got in. He's good on setup, stopping cards like Building orders /Summons, but also street of steel/sisters..

2x direwolf pup, useful for Like Warm Rain or else claim soak/marched.

2x summer, a target when A Time for Wolves is played and he can bring Bran back on the board.

To round out the deck there's Shaggydog, Tumblestone Knight, Last Hearth Scouts, Jory Kessel. These are almost all claim soak and some of them might go in later versions of this deck.

This deck has it's weaknesses, most of all intrigue (Lanni/Castamere) because Wolves don't care about people's schemes. Another thing is card draw, a previous version of this deck had Gates of Winterfell but both the Blackfish and Close Call give some card draw. I'm not sure if it's enough, but time (and more plays) will tell.

As you can see, there's no Sansa or Catelyn in the deck. They're both good characters, but I wanted to focus completely on killing other people's characters and they do not (directly) help me accomplish this.

I don't think it's a competitive deck by any means, but I think the 'kill'-theme comes together nicely in this one.

Of course, suggestions are welcome and much appreciated :)!