Orange Tide 1.0

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This deck is slightly modified from the deck I played this at GenCon with a 3-0 record. I had to drop for another event (although two if the wins were mod wins on time).

I feel like this deck is actually pretty solid and would do well in hands more competent than mine. The deck did well despite some questionable play on my part.

The core idea is to make a stall deck that is save heavy and can best leverage the gold from dornish fiefdoms by going second 80+% of the time. The key part is getting double duty out of the cheap events. The Ahead of the Tides WILL get played twice for card draw while ensuring initiative control. You also don't hesitate to dump events into your discard when you hit reserve since you know you can access them on a turn 5 or 6 Annals of Castle Black. Typically Annals will completely refill your hand with 1 secret schemes and 1-2 tides.

All these characters benefit from a small board. MVPs are Arianne, Theon, and Asha. Silence's Crew are surprisingly versatile since they are capable of being a big body once you are a few plots in and have your fiefdom engine working. Sometimes you threaten a Vengeance by holding back 2 gold and then swap Arianne for a 8 strength Silence's Crew.

Against strong location decks you have to prioritize your newly made lords and recurring them back to hand with Orphans and Tibwhids.

Varys into Marched is a fairly regular play mid game especially when facing a dominating big body across the table. Your success vs. Lanni Rains probably involves going second and catching your opponent with a Varys with no money in hand to pay for the treachery or to have the Hand's Judgment in hand to cancel the cancel. Wibwhid is obviously especially good with Long Plan up and using it on a key character which is knelt, winning Dom, and then flipping Valar.

I'm tempted to run a second Retaliation or a building orders because getting a Fiefdom is so important.