3rd Place & TOP 8 Prague Regional 2018 (73p) - Green Feast o 1.0

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GO STAGS!

Congratulations to good placement and thanks for the write-up.

I have a few questions about the deck. On the paper it looks like Selyse hits you as hard as she hits your opponent most of the time, so how does that work? Is she just a stall engine?

Would you consider swapping in Alerie for Penrose, or do you feel that with the draw engine, you draw into the courtiers consistently enough (she seems like a good synergy with not only the standy girls)?

Speaking of Oathkeeper, how often do you find yourself not triggering it (even if you can)?

Also the Arbor Queen as a two-of bugs me. Is it really necessary, especially with Support of the People? I would be looking for a replacement in form of Honeywine, maybe even Caswell. Is the buff that invaluable?

Were Icons ever lacking? Would you consider slotting in Off to Gulltown?

@BlaiddDrwg Thanks!

It depends - I admit that it could happen what you mentioned and Selyse Baratheon (FotOG) is acting more like a stall engine (even that could be sometimes solution for particular board state). Truth to be told you are still able to generate a very solid pressure via stand engines played after Selyse Baratheon (FotOG) trigger. Truth to be told the count of impactful ladies in the deck is not so low. Brienne of Tarth(GoH) and Randyll Tarly are able to pull out a very solid board pressure even during Selyse Baratheon (FotOG) round. Even more if you have an Arbor Queen out. Therefore in our experience the hit is not that hard if triggered correctly of course.

Alerie Tyrell is fine however we never felt she is needed that much with the draw present and I personally was never short of Highgarden Courtier in terms of drawing them (besides them being killed in or match-ups). And Ser Cortnay Penrose is actually quite good (for example during Selyse Baratheon (FotOG) round being played after her trigger).

Sometimes Oathkeeper is indeed kept instead of being used especially in match-ups or against Arianne Martell (JtO). However it is not that frequent - you need to solve some issues regularly or simply improve your board position.

Yes - Arbor Queen is really that important. You could lose one copy of it frequently by Jade Sea Dromond or Nothing Burns Like The Cold and therefore having another is quite useful.

Sometimes could be somehow lacking however it is not that crtitical and zou have other ways how to solve the issue (kneeling the threats on the other side) and thus with lack of additional Song synergy the "Off To Gulltown" was never indeed considered here.

@BlaiddDrwgHi, thank you for the question.

Selyse has few use. Usually you play her as a second player, so you see the consequences. Many times you have ability to kneel additional lady using a Mellisandre. Then you play 3 times Brienne of Tarth, which is non-kneeling in the defend (5 King traits). She is beast with Oathkeeper or Arbor queen. Oathkeeper may also stand Randyll in marshalling, so he has 2 use with AQ again.

This might also answer your second question related to Arbor queen itself. Second copy is there also in case the first one would be destroyed with Jade sea or other location hate. Support is there mainly for Red keep, but can be used for eco as mentioned above. If the buff is usefull? Be sure about it. Tyrell is the best house these days and even with AQ you might sometimes struggle to win key challanges.

Alerie was in the previous version of the deck. She might worth a slot, but to be honest, King at the wall has just a few Targets here and you are never sorry to put Cortnay in the setup, but she's not a bad call.

Oathkeeper - it rly depends on the matchup. Against Targaryen you often keep it attached. In other cases you might look for dupe/Selyse/Mel or whatever you just need.

Off to Gulltown was part of the conversation, but was declined very quickly. We agreed for pure effectivity in what we are good at, mentioning it might mess up our setups and there are no slots available in a deck.

Awesome deck! I have been fiddling with my own Bara-Rose lately, loving how the Rose banner helps you grab Selyse so consistently. Your version is a lot stronger, I think :)

Did you consider Withering Cold in the plot deck with all of the stand/non-kneel/kneel control you have?

@OKTargThanks for the kind words.

Talking about myself, i've never rly considered The Withering Cold to be a choice. I know Andre had it in previous version of the deck for a while, but then removed it for something else. I believe the main reason might be the fact, that there are houses who had way more standing/non-kneeling then you have, therefore it might be a risk.

Also, the only smart replacement in this meta would be Time of Plenty, which is an opener in 95% of cases and 1 more gold might be crucial at this point.

And there is one more. Even if you had most of your non-kneeling/standing techs on the table, it would stall the game, which is not something you are looking for in some match-ups. Against Martel you are trying to be as fast as possible. Actualy, if you do not close in 3-4 plots, you sometimes have to wait till plot 8 to have The King in the North or Barring the Gates available again.

I would only think about it as a meta call if the meta shifts somewhere else.

Great deck! Congratulations to the good result and to an amazing tournament! I would have loved to play one of you in the final, that should have been more interesting than 2 Crossing (and probably a better match-up for my songs). Maybe next time. :)

I'm playing a Bara Rose deck with King at the Wall, too. As a player, I'm happy there is finally a card to build interesting Bara decks. I go full King at the Wall, 3x copies, Building Orders, 3x Jousting Pavilion, so I focus more on knights than ladies. Conveniently, all the good new characters are knights, the upcoming Ser Justin Massey will also fit right into this deck.

By the way, why no Honeywine?

I love your deck Andre! Innovative as usual!