FIrst Player Championship 2017 Melee Winner 1.0

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Ever after getting slaughtered by you, I still do not understand the salt wife

Unopposed challenges are so huge for winning by 5 to trigger the Honeywine, Relentless Assault, or Superior Claim. A lot of times, people may only have one defender left if you can go late in turn order. Plus, The Salt Wife doesn't kneel to use her ability, so I can defend with her or maybe give her stealth with Pyke and get an attack out of her, then sacrifice her to get a bigger character like Randyll through unopposed.

In melee Salt Wife is much more flexible than a fishing net or longship for creating UO. Both are more repeatable or permanent than Salt Wife, but after the first play of the net, the opponent will usually just attack with the character you netted and the card may as well read "must always attack" and making yourself go first in Melee to avoid a card being useless...no thanks. Meanwhile, Salt Wife gives you the ability to choose the exact moment and exact opponent to use it on. If you have a few of them you can switch from rival to rival as opposed to possibly having your net stuck on a player you support who may not be even able to be attacked by you. If you really wanted you could even trigger it to make an opponent win a challenge to weaken a leader on the table. In joust, not a fan of the card, in this, I certainly see its usefulness.

Fair points as well. Just maximum flexibility with minimum commitment. Being able to offer it as a deal to gang up on the table leader to buy yourself a turn is also a pretty huge impact. Between that and Marge uses, I think this deck has some solid challenge phase deal making possibility.

Ask Glazer about my left field deck approach he saw at Starpike and you'll know why I'm thinking about 7-8 ways to use a "bad" card. Love the creative deck building and congrats on the win.

Thanks!

Ha, which bad card are you thinking of?

In this case everyone calls the Salt Wife a "bad card" in every review and can't see situational or particular build uses for it.

In my Starpike deck it was a janky as heck kneel deck run GJ/Stag. Limited my opponent's ability to counter attack by going first and kneeling them out before they could move. Vic and Marya are unarguably good...Robert's Warhammer and Disputed Claim, usually not considered cards you would put in a top 8 deck. They worked really well to push the control theme, especially with the surprise factor or running them with Salla and dropping it in for free and unseen like an event. That plus 3x Longships just made the deck very difficult to stop from doing what it wanted to do unless you chose to go first against me...which most opponents started trying to do after 2-3 turns of being locked down. Usually by that time I could afford to allow a few UO claim and counter attack as my plots mid to late game were 2 claim in that build and I would be happy to trade shots.

At my last store championship I took second using Ours Is The Fury...a card which has been panned a lot in talk I have heard as too expensive, but in the Bara/Rose build I did it allowed me to go first, be hyper aggressive, kneel out, and still be able to defend key challenges. Completely worth its slots.

A little bit of it is playing against expectations to me, which puts opponents off their guard and plays into what you want them to do.

I played this deck in a three player melee against thronesdb.com and thronesdb.com and won on the third round.

The plots I played in order were Taxation, Retaliation and Varys' Riddle. Taxation allowed me to get two Great Halls (1 placed in set up) and a Kingsroad in the first round. Even though it was a Greyjoy deck, I mainly had Tyrell cards in play. The Honeywine and The Great Kraken were big helps. by the first round, I had Margaery Tyrell, Randyll Tarly and a Garden Caretaker on the board. I was Crown Reagent, deflecting an intrigue challenge onto the Targaryen player and losing the Garden Caretaker to the Lannister player's military challenge. I ended the round with one point on Randyll.

On my second round, I made the Lannister first player after playing Retaliation. I was Master or Laws for the card draw. i put out Brienne of Tarth, The Knight of Flowers and an Iron Islands Fishmonger, thanks to the Targaryen player revealing Trading with the Pentoshi. This was a good round as I was able to get vicotry points on Randyll, Brienne and the Knight, as well as points from Honeywine and Great Kraken and play a Supior Claim to get total of ten points. On the other hand, due to losing an intrigue challenge, I went into the next round with only Balon Greyjoy in hand.

In the third round I lucked out in two ways. I played Varys' Riddle and the Targaryen played Calling the Banners, allowing me to get an unexpected five gold. I chose Master of Laws again and on my third draw got Victarion Greyjoy. I had just enough money to play the Greyjoy brothers. After the Targaryen player's turn, I went all in with a power challenge with Balon, Victarion, Margaery, Randyll, Brienne and the Knight, stealthing Khal Drogo. He redirected it to the Lannister player after using Dracarys! on Margaery. The Lannister player couldn't overcome my 25 strength power challenge. I got eight power to win the game.

Overall, great deck, although I didn't see any Greyjoy characters until the end. My only critique was Brienne seemed a little wasted here. There are no cards that can trigger her ability.