Greyjoy/Fealty - 2nd Place The Dark Side Store Championship 1.0

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I am thinking about something very similar to take with me during this weekends store championshit. I have been playing GJ with Tyrells for a few weeks. I quite enjoy it but with the King's Peace I'd like to go GJ Fealty. My only concern with this deck is the economy. Did you feel like you were struggling with it? Also how bad was Seastone Chair in Fealty deck? Would you consider this deck easy to pilot? I will be participating in the championship after my work, so I'd like something relatively easy :)

Also, question about Newly-Made-Lord, do you HAVE to trigger the ability once you play him? And would that mean that its effective on your own locations too?

@JuSTiN

The economy was working smoothly, I never felt like I was lacking. This has a lot to do with the 3 plots I choose to be high econ. Only the set-up was awkward sometimes with so many 4+ cost cards in the deck. I would probably replace the Drowned Men with Black Wind's Crew to help with that.

The deck has surprisingly few loyal cards, with Balon, Euron, and The Reader being the the ones you're most likely to kneel your faction card for. So you're not going to get much econ benefit for it, but the 1 cost discount on those three is significant. This also means that the Seastone Chair is active more often than not, and turning it off is worth dropping the three I mentioned.

I don't think the deck is hard to pilot, but you need to mulligan aggressively. You really want Asha, but not to set up with her, to put on the early pressure. So you're looking for 3-4 cheap setup cards (at least one of which is a econ card) and drop Asha on the first turn off a Summons to find Balon, Euron, or the Reader. Then you either going to Summons again if you didn't find them, or A Noble Cause to play Balon, Euron, or the Reader.

The worst match up for the deck is going to be Night's Watch, because Benjen just shuts down the stealth game and Aemon soaks military challenges like no other. Targ isn't so bad if you make sure you take 1 gold into challenges with The Hand's Judgement, and use Seastone Chair to disassemble the Power Rangers (Drogon et al). The mirror can be tough, but fishing nets can really help push through unopposed by taking out opposing stealthers.

Since Newly-Made Lord isn't a Forced Reaction, you don't have to trigger it.

Thanks a lot for such a fast and thorough reply :) I still cannt decide between GJ/Rose and very close variantion of your deck. As for Rose banner I play, a setup of 5 cards is most of the time, sometimes even 6 card setup is possible. In your deck I think that 4 card setup is already very good. Wonder how important that can be.

I see you are very very sure about Summons? :) It really proved that much worthy?

Thanks for clarifying Newly-Made Lord.

Summons is such a huge enabler for the deck. The Reader (in addition to Great Kraken) is your draw engine, so finding him quick is really good. Since you don't have that much intrigue icons, you'll be losing cards left and right so you need to be to draw more. Also, Balon and Euron are game altering to where you really want to drop them as soon as possible. At it's worse, it'll find you a military soak.

My deck is built around working with a few high powered characters, so that a Wildfire Assault won't set me back that much. So while I'm not packing it, my opponents won't want to drop it either but that does mean the deck is susceptible to swarms. So switching Supporting the Faith for a Wildfire Assault is reasonable.

Also, since I'm dependant on a few core characters, The Hand's Judgment is extremely important. So many sure you're carrying gold into challenges to stop any Dracarys! or Tears of Lys, even if you're bluffing.

Hey, @BlueSapphyre, thanks a lot for so much information.

At the early stages of testing your deck did you consider 3X Euron Crow's Eye, maybe istead of Theon Greyjoy? I'm somehow not very satisfied with him. And perhaps 3X Great Kraken?

Also, the new Agenda (The Lord of the Crossing) is really tempting. Did you think about including it or testing it with your deck? -1 STR is not a big deal in a deck with stealth and +1 power on the last challenge sounds very sweet. Though I guess its quite a big gamble and little consistency if such agenda were to be included.

@JuSTiNYou don't want 3x Euron because it really hurts your gold curve. Even a 2nd Euron is hard to fit in without messing up your set up. The only reasonable way I could see doing that, in this deck, is to go 2x Balon and 2x Euron. But Balon is just so good that I can't see cutting one. Theon gives you another stealth and fake renown, so he's a good body to have around. Maybe if you swapped 1 of the Summons for A Noble Cause, then your economy could support another Euron, but your setup is still going to take a hit for it.

As for a 3rd Great Kraken, I would rather find room for Support of the People first. I think 2 is the right number because you never want to draw more than 1, but if you're finding yourself never hitting it, then a 1-of SotP should help. The issue is to what neutral to cut to make room for it...and I think the neutral slots are better than a 1 of support.

As for The Lord of the Crossing, the deck is very light on intrigue so it's rare you'll have 3 challenges.

@BlueSapphyre, I made some minor adjustments to your deck, just made it public for you to see. I think I settled on the that one, mainly because I think the starting setup is a bit better then your deck's, although I'd like your blessing :D

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Thank you for going into so much detail. I've been trying to figure out Greyjoy and this answered a few of my questions.

@kuvnynto glad we helped :) Though I did not do good with my interpretation of this deck :(