"And now the rains weep o'er his hall and not a soul to hear

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Von Wibble 191

Won a small SC with this (in 2017, does this not need updating?), going 3-0 (including a couple of testing games I am yet to lose with this deck). Idea is very much inspired by OldShrimpEyes's deck referred to on the Banter podcast - whilst I didn't actually look at his list before making mine the ideas on how the deck works are very much the same.

I decided to go fairly heavy on gold in plots since Greyjoy do saves and therefore continued presence so much better than anyone else - I basically want to afford my big guys! Song of Summer is nice for Asha to trigger Rains alone, and to make Balon even harder to defend.

Forgotten Plans is there to hit the power gain plots - Winter Festival (which also loses to summer should I not trigger the agenda) and Feast for Crows, both of which seem to be seeing play.

As I have the Greyjoy house card many people winning initiative against me seem to want me to go second - which is fine by me as they still can't commit much to challenges that way. The only cards I really like to go first with are Victarion and Raiding Longship tbh, and the latter is only a 1 of since it is nice but not crucial.

I have a fair bit of location control as passive power gain from table and chair seems to be everywhere. I even considered removing Confiscation for Political Disaster - after all Rains can get you out of the 4 reserve downside, but decided the fact it could hit my Mines was too big a disadvantage.

The Silent Sisters were a great 1 of, saving them for after Valar means there is a decent chance they have enough strength to trigger Rains alone. Wildling Bandits are there for potentially decent strength bicons - they also have a nice synergy with Aeron as the opponent probably isn't winning dom if they aren't sitting on some money.

Would love to find room for Nightmares, certainly the first change I'd make is to add one as for some reason my deck is only 60 cards!

3 comments

Itachi 1

Nice list! Why Appointed over Little Bird though? You donĀ“t make much of the Small-Council trait, do you?

TeamBolton 78

@Itachi Appointed it's a Title and Little Bird a Condition, so Little Bird can be targeted by Cressen, i think thats the reason why you choose Appointed over Little Bird.

Von Wibble 191

Correct. Also the disadvantage doesn't hurt too much as pretty much anyone I want an int icon on is unique.