How to Train your Dragon to Stand Lannisters 1.0

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Lannister is stronk. It is stronger when you have an efficient package to match, and plenty of stand effects to provide both constant pressure, and consistent defense.

This is largely untested, thus I'd like to see what people think. I'm hoping this is a decent shell to build on.

This is a combo deck that works decently without the combo out. The many pieces of the combo, each of which increases efficiency:

• Cersei Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, and other characters for superiority.
• Magister Illyrio and -style bank to stand the characters consistently. Backed up by Seal of the Hand.
• Casterly Rock to enable multiple intrigue challenges (with the same characters via the standing effects).
• Grand Maester Pycelle and Lannisport for significant card draw while ravaging their hand.

Summary. Maximum efficiency enables discarding up to 6 cards/turn (during The Winds of Winter), while drawing 4. Realistic levels of efficiency are likely discard 2-4, draw 2-4.

The rest of the deck exists to shore up the weaknesses of this combo (lack of military, character removal/maiming, and the necessary economy).

Why ?

• A strong suite. We're decked out with Cersei Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, and Grand Maester Pycelle to provide strong pressure, and - along with Lannisport - strong card draw.
• A strong multi-challenge package. Casterly Rock is hard to use as you need a lot of out for it to be effective. However, throw in some strong stand effects, and you're in business. Combine with Lannisport, your card advantage is off the charts (they discard, you draw x 2).
• Bank. Lannisport Moneylenders and Tywin Lannister take the amount of bank into ridiculous territories. What to do with all that money? Tywin Lannister is obvious. Wouldn't i be nice if we could spend money to have a repeatable effect that increases our pressure and defense? Bring in the dragons.

Weaknesses of .

• Limited fiasco. This deck has a lot of limited cards (10), but not so many that they'll clog your hand on average draws. We're down to 2 The Kingsroad to minimize this.
• All-in military. The military that's worth a crap in is concentrated into two cards: Tywin Lannister and Ser Jaime Lannister. If you don't draw them, they're Milked, or removed, things can get hard quickly.

Why ?

• Mainly Magister Illyrio. I know he isn't normally that great. Two gold is a hefty price. That is, unless your swimming in money. See "Bank" above. Done. Summons to help us find him. Tyrion Lannister makes using the Magister free. This combo hopefully doubles the efficiency of already very efficient cards.
• Military efficiency. Though one dimensional, Braided Warriors, Drogon, and Ser Jorah Mormont are quite efficient military. Unsullied help too. They will hopefully tide us, or at least provide cannon-fodder, until Tyrion Lannister and Ser Jaime Lannister can arrive. This hopefully will address the military downside of .
• Dragons. If one could play with dragons, why wouldn't you?

The package

The cards are really here only to reinforce the main goals of the deck, rather than bolster weaknesses.

• Seal of the Hand to increase stand effects.
• Littlefinger, The Kingsroad, and The Roseroad to increase econ.
• The others because good cards. Using s in AGOT2e feels like playing Criminal cards in Netrunner.

The s

• Calm Over Westeros and A Game of Thrones to shore up weakness. Heads on Spikes to bolster our game.
• A Noble Cause and Summons to get our the characters we need.
• Confiscation because defensive.
• The Winds of Winter for a turn to discard their entire hand (with Casterly Rock and Cersei Lannister), or to close out the game for . This could be Sneak Attack if the optimistic layout of cards never comes to be, and a single challenge to discard 3 cards is sufficient.