"Tindermere" - Jupiter Store Tournament Winner 4-0 (Barcelon 1.0

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http://thejoustingpavilion.com/tournaments/4146

This is the deck that I piloted to win a casual store tournament. Which doesn't sound like a big deal, but honestly, level here in Barcelona is pretty high so I feel sooo satisfied. I always have been a Lanni player, but after finishing 3rd in the Spanish National with Tyrell Wolf I discovered how solid and elegant Tyrell is. So after seeing so many people having good results with them along with the Castamere agenda, I decided to build my version based on my meta.

My plan is, if I have The Arbor in setup, Calm Over Westeros is the plot. Higher initiative than the regular openers. So give the initiative, remove military claim and let them just kneel guys for no claim (you have no pow yet). They should not be able to beat you in intrigue... If you have arbor in hand, then Late Summer Feast it! If nothing applies, I'd go with Time of Plenty to look for tasty cards.

Ideally you should be able to turn A Game of Thrones with Castamere sooner rather than later, so you can perfectly have 2 very easy rounds without claim from your rival, to build and grow.

Tyrell is bullet proof. No fear to Valar and good economy makes you strong in the late game.

Tinder Marge and Close Call make things easier so if they Valar your Randyll or other, it is not a big deal.

I don't carry Confiscation or Rattleshirt's Raiders. I think these are awful cards and I hate carrying them. You milk my Marge, not a big deal. You marry Renly? I kill him or discard him to see him later. Better taking advantage of powerful plots. Anyway a copy of Pulling the Strings can use your rival's Confiscation plot.

I thought about not using Bodyguards, but carrying 2 was a good choice in my case.

Growing Strong and "Lord Renly's Ride" in hand are bollocks. Not a secret how good it is to intimidate twice with Randyll or with Renly using Castamere and PBTT. Paxter pays!

The Queen of Thorns (Core) was pretty effective today. Sometimes I wasn't even marshalling at all. Saving the money for events and domination. But you definitely need to go easy on bringing guys down or Valar can hurt you badly.

Oldtown Informer is perfect for the FSOW round and drawing cards in play is a nice plus in order to find events.

My meta is full of Greyjoy, so I thought that Silver Hair Net was a good idea. Also to beat the Lannister big intrigue characters. However none of those appeared today. So perhaps this would be the chosen card to reduce the deck to 60.

Last but not least Ser Garlan Tyrell (OR). Broken card. Bringing it down with the Queen, giving him 3 bestow. Renown, Lord and cost 4. Just insane. You can, for instance, let the opponent kill him, but giving 3 str to Margaery Tyrell (AMAF) first, and then bring another dude. Or stand Randyll. Just bollocks.

THE TOURNAMENT:

1st. TYRELL CASTAMERE vs. Baratheon Kraken by @Ser Carter This guy is a very tough fella. And he is very smart building decks full of traps. He had quite a strange start with a duplicated Ser Barristan Selmy (TS) and no economy. So I opened with The First Snow of Winter to choke a little. Generally all was under control, as he never had any intrigue icons on the board, until he brought in The Iron Throne and Chamber of the Painted Table. That was where I panicked. I had Margaery duplicated and a few important other lords unprotected. So I decided to Varys despite of having way better cards than he did and a few renowns placed. He said that it was a mistake, but actually, having also very good renown characters in hand and good economy, that allowed me to rush and win an insane amount of power right after. THREAT: The Iron Throne + Chamber of the Painted Table VIP: Varys.

2nd. TYRELL CASTAMERE vs. Martell Fealty by Juan Hernandez. Oh boy this was a nightmare. I mean shit, this guy plays Martell so well. And I felt like the game was lost before I started. However the late game of this deck is amazing and I won despite he made every single nasty move. I started the 1st round challenges with Margaery Tyrell (AMAF) and The Queen of Thorns (Core) (both duped) and a gardener. I knew this was not enough. And I was right. Venomous Blade on the gardener, Varys and Valar Morghulis in round 2. Good bye girls!!! Clean board. Would not be the last time. I was worried because I only had economy and locations in my hand and not so many characters... that kinda was the key to win the game in the end. He played a Areo Hotah with Flea Bottom a thousand times. 3 His Viper Eyes, 2 Ghaston Grey, cleared my board often... a nightmare. Until Highgarden and Renly's Pavilion appeared, and they were key to cancel his power challenges mostly in the Retaliation round. Having so much money and drawing, allowed me to bring characters over all the time and survive. Triggered Castamere to copy his Counting Coppers and I found right what I needed. When I heard that last plot was the next one, I played Calm Over Westeros to remove the Power claim and marshalled 3 Renown fellas + Knight of the Reach. That was enough to win. Mind blown... THREAT: Everything. VIP: Highgarden.

3rd. TYRELL CASTAMERE vs. Lannister Dragon by @Hansen My good friend Xavi is becoming very familiar with Targaryen. He beat me at the Spanish national swiss so I was ready for a hard match. However he kinda never get the chance to play his game. He started with Ser Ilyn Payne, limited and reducer, which doesn't feel like a massive threat. Payne's intrigue icon could have been useful rather than having him knelt every challenge phase to kill a gardener or so. He marshalled a duped Tyrion Lannister (Core) which I pretty much nightmared every round. My setup was The Queen of Thorns (Core), Rose Garden and a gardener. I started with Calm over westeros and in the second round I brought A game of thrones on the board so he couldnt play in two rounds. The Queen of Thorns (Core) was bringing me powerful characters all the time on board and I suspected he had no Valar so game was over in Round 3. Renown!!! THREAT: Tyrion Lannister (Core) VIP: The Queen of Thorns (Core) / Calm Over Westeros

FINAL: TYRELL CASTAMERE vs. Lannister Castamere (Clansman) by @Estupe Another good player. I had a good setup with The Arbor and Paxter Redwyne. Marshalled Randyll Tarly with Butterbumps after. God I love Butterbumps, what a good card! He started with Cersei Lannister (Core) and marshalled Tywin Lannister (Core) after. Neither of them were protected. So I valared in second round to clear that threat. I couldnt let him have more Intrigue than me. But he marched my Randyll so I ended up with a clear board. However The Arbor was there and in third round I had already a duplicated Marge with Ser Garlan Tyrell (OR) bestowed. He had an annoying Ser Jaime Lannister (Core) with 4 power tokens on him. He used Stone Crows along with Jaime against me, so I lost the dupe and he also killed Garlan, but previously giving the str to Marge. Triggered Tinder to bring on Renly Baratheon (FFH). To beat Jaime's intrigue, I boosted Marge with "Lord Renly's Ride" plus Garlan's str, triggered Rains and I The Red Wedding his Jaime. He attacked me on the next round with Tyrion Lannister (LoCR) and a thousand Clansman like Timett Son of Timett and others. Overall 27 str. I nightmared Tyrion. And then I had all my guys ready for UO and renown. That was pretty much it. THREAT: Tyrion Lannister (LoCR) VIP: Nightmares / The Red Wedding / Ser Garlan Tyrell (OR)

I will be pleased to answer all of your questions and listen to suggestions!

Try the deck and tell me how it went folks! :)