Randyll's Revenge - 2nd Place Winds of Winter 2.0

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This was my second time using Randyll’s Revenge in a tournament. Last time I got 3rd out of 31 and this time I got 2nd out of 20. I’m not going to talk about the whole deck because you can see that in the first version, but I’ll add a few comments about what I changed.

Cards I took out:

• Wildfire Assault because it often hurt me more than my opponent. I have a lot of unique characters, so it hurts to kill them.
• A copy of Arianne Martell because dupes are useless on her.
• A copy of The Queen of Thorns because she’s not vital to the deck.
• A copy of Left and Right. I briefly took out all 3 copies of each, but immediately regretted it. These guys do serious work. I’ll elaborate below.
• A copy of Highgarden, Rose Garden, Growing Strong to make room for some attachments.
• Put to the Sword, replaced with another Tears of Lys. I want to work the combo of Confinement and Tears of Lys to kill Tyrion Lannister or Melisandre, but I rarely pull it off.

Cards I added:

• Calling the Banners because I previously only had one plot with 5+ gold. I generally prefer CtB over Noble Cause because the initiative is good and the gold is comparable.
• Dawn because it’s great on The Knight of Flowers and can give you intimidate on a House Dayne Knight.
• 2xMilk of the Poppy because, begrudgingly, you really need it unless you have a lot of targeted kill.
• Seal of the Hand for The Knight of Flowers or Margaery Tyrell
• “The Bear and the Maiden Fair” and Olenna’s Cunning because I had never tried them and some people really like them. I’m going to keep the Bear, but I did not have success with Olenna’s Cunning.
• The Hand’s Judgment because Dracarys!

My first game was against Alex’s Targ/Lion (I think), and was highlighted by his play of Varys. Luckily, I was holding back for a Wildfire Assault and was able to recover quickly with Littlefinger, soon followed by Randyll Tarly and The Knight of Flowers. I forget many other details, but it was a good, close game.

Second game was against Jesse’s Stark/Watch. I had a fairly mediocre setup and he landed a 4 claim on turn one with Sneak Attack, Ice, and Winter is Coming. Not much else mattered after that.

Third game was against Zoltan’s Lanni/Rose. He played Heads on Spikes turn 1 and caught my The Knight of Flowers, but I got out Randyll Tarly and Margaery Tyrell early and Randyll did his thing. I also made him discard Tywin Lannister via , so he never quite recovered board state.

Fourth game was Zach’s Targ/Fealty. He got out a Plaza of Punishment early, but was never able to kill anyone with it. I got the Left/Right combo, which was a wall he couldn’t break through. The +1 strength kept them out of Plaza range. I don’t think I saw Randyll, but KoF couldn’t be stopped. I almost blew it at the end when he played Wildfire Assault against my Marched to the Wall. I made him go first (because I almost always do), without thinking that he could trigger Wildfire first. That broke the Left/Right wall, but I was still able to close it out. This win got me barely into the cut at 3-1.

In the cut I was matched up against Kyle’s undefeated Targ/Lion in one of the more memorable games I’ve played. The funny part was that neither of us had Wildfire Assault in our deck, yet we were both waiting for it to drop. Also, I had an early Sunspear, so he made very few military challenges. This meant the boards were very large on both sides. Luckily I was able to Milk Tyrion and Dany and he used Confiscation early on Heartsbane. Randyll was doing his thing early with Marge, but I never saw any dupes for him. I had to work very hard to not lose any challenges and avoid the tears. Eventually Kyle made a big push that I couldn’t stop to take out Randyll, but with his dying breath Randyll claimed 4 military via an Olenna’s Informant. I forget if I had 2 claim because of Sunspear or The Winds of Winter. After that he was putting pressure on me with Jaime and Drogo, but I had the perfect answer - Left/Right with Margaery Tyrell, Seal of the Hand, and Highgarden. I could defend military for 12 (out of Dracarys Range) and remove Jaime from the challenge, making any military impossible. With him unable to break through the wall, the Mander and KoF led me to an 8 turn victory.

The finals were fairly one sided with me on the losing end. Robert was running Targ Fealty and got out Dany with all 3 dragons by turn 2. I held on for a while and successfully avoided any Dracarys!, but he had control the whole game. I had Randyll and Marge, but he usually went first and with no Milk for Dany, that meant he would get first action and Dracarys Randyll before I could stand him. Even when he made a power challenge with Dany, he widely used Magister Illyrio to stand her before I declared defenders.

In the end, I was pleased with how the deck performed. I had used NW/Stag and Greyjoy/Lion in the last two tournaments, and even though those decks also did well, they aren’t nearly as fun to play. I think the deck is in a pretty good place right now. The only plot I’m thinking about adding is A Game of Thrones, mostly for the turn 1 play against Greyjoy or Stark. Not sure what I’d take out. Probably Marched to the Wall. The Olenna’s Cunning is also gone. Too expensive and they always seemed to pick the right type.

Thanks to Jimmy for organizing a fun tournament, and to Ross for driving Cersei’s Wheelhouse from Seattle to Tacoma.