Protectors of the Realm [Bara/Watch Dominance] 1.0

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From playing a very similar deck to this one a few cycles back, I found Core Stannis to get in the way of your goal, not assist it. He keeps your defenders locked up as much as your opponent's attackers. Great for dom, bad for Wall unless you are running Haunted Forests to eat an attacker without using a blocker. Also, without Selyse, Asshai, or any Rhllor attachments (lightbringer, red god's blessing etc) you have only 5 triggers for Mel to possibly play once you get her out. With those odds you are essentially counting on triggering Mel 2, maybe 3 times in a game. Once when she comes out, one other time, and maybe drawing into a third. Those are pretty low odds of success in that area. Since the only targets for practice blade who do not already have a mil icon are Donnel and Edd, perhaps pulling that for Lightbringer? It gives you stand if used on Stannis or the Bannerman, a Mel trigger, and if you don't have Stannis you can play it on a chud, kill it for claim, and have a Mel trigger back in hand to use again. Alternately play Red God's Blessing for a Str boost to be used the same way. Finally, Econ...I think you will find it to be an issue. Your plots are mostly 4 gold and under...especially your opener options. You don't want to open with Feast as it has 4 reserve and not enough gold to lay out a full hand (plus you want to save that until you KNOW you can win dom). You don't want to open Winter Festival as most of the commonly run openers except Pentoshi and Riddle are summer traited. You wouldn't open Power, Here to Serve (without Aemon) or Clash due to what their uses are in this deck and low gold. I guess that means you open Building orders every time even if you don't need it, or you have to burn Filthy right away, even if it would be better to wait on? Get a gold plot in there. Clash, or Power are the 2 I'd drop for a Wildfire (in case they get way ahead on characters while you are playing locations and you don't see Stannis) and a money plot (Late Summer would be my choice as you aren't an attacking deck and you can choose to lose a challenge on first turn or let them draw depending on board state). Final note, I've been testing this style of deck again and I think NW/Stag to be the better setup currently. Too much stand in the meta (Targ and Rains decks) right now to rely on full kneel lockdown.

Wow, euphius that was huge. Thank you for the critique, I was not expecting anything so thorough. A few points.

1. I was waffling on Stannis for just that reason. Good to hear someone has tried it out. I think I'll replace him with King Bob.

2. I did not realize my Rhollor was so limited. I'll throw in more for Mel activation.

3. I suck at plots in general, lol. That's where I was most concerned. I'll take your advice on he clash/power swap out.

4. This is intended as a casual fun deck. I wanted to see how it could feel to run both The Wall and Red Keep. So I'm gonna stick with this for now.

Thanka again for all the advice!