You only play 4 Dragon cards (Rhaegal x2 + Drogon + Viserion) and you play 3 Dragon Attack and 3 Dragon Bite… Aren't they dead cards in most of your games? You don't even play Rhaegar's Harp. In melee my dragons are targeted a lot by my opponents effects (kill or kneel) so it's not frequent that I use them a lot in a game.

You play Disgruntled Mercenaries, they're great with Dragon Bite but they are almost useless on board in melee (even with Power of arms), aren't they?

Why play 3 Warlock Servitors? Aren't they a bit expensive?

The answer to all your questions is no, otherwise they wouldn't have stayed in the deck.

In reverse order. Immune to Character abilities and deadly power icon is easily worth the extra gold. I get one on the board and my opponent almost always gives me UO for power challenges or is forced to tie up one of his rare deadly power icons to oppose it, and still usually ends up losing. That is worth 4 gold in my book.

Disgruntled mercenaries are great with Dragons bite and LDC, but they are also good at keeping my flops high, with Power of Arms they become a real threat on the board, and when I go first give me an added boost to a challenge. When my opponent goes first it forces intrigue first... in the case of Stark it is also another good defender.

Regarding the number of dragons versus dragon traited cards. Maybe I'm just lucky in my shuffles but I usually get a dragon or two into play in the first three phases. Dragon bite also has the added benefit of being able to protect my own characters from Bear Island and Castellan of the Rock, very popular cards here. When I was running Pentos I could use them like Bodyguards and I'm contemplating adding them back in. Dragon Attack is a nice kick while my opponent is down. With the Dragon bites I usually keep one dragon up for blocking to ensure ther strongest Bitten character does not attack me. After dominance is counted I kneel my dragon and kill off a weenie. Or couple it with Drogon's ability and kill off a non-weenie.

I don't have the latest CP yet, but they will probably be swapped out for Street Waif.

dormouse said:

~yeah cuz otherwise it would never be the first challenge intiatied

It isn't always. Especially if the person can't win intrigue.

dormouse said:

Just curious as to why you have 3x Black Raven. 1 should be enough with LDC because you can recycle it, and you have your search plot to go and get it. I guess i could see having 2x, just as added insurance... but 3x really?!?!?

cha0s said:

Yeah, I've dropped down to 2x Black Raven in my Targ. It's really all you need with good draw/search and recursion. And it sucks when you really need something and draw into a redundant copy at a crucial moment.

Your deck really seems to have a lot of superfluous cards in it at the moment, and I bet if you really focused it you'd find it doing even better. 26 characters in a 66 card deck is a little shallow, and you hardly have any draw outside of the agenda. And as mentioned above a lot of 'dragon' keyed effects with hardly the bare-minimum of dragons to use them.

I'd really consider 'trimming the fat' so to speak in a few areas, and see what it does for you. Either focus on the dragons, or pull the support for something more universal. Obviously, metas and playstyles factor a great deal into it and I don't want you to take my comments as anything but an attempt at being constructive! :-)

We play a lot of seasons and I need the summer for my Agenda and Dragon Sight. I originally had 2 copies and when I faced a winter deck i found myself waisting searches and recursion on ravens rather than the attachments that let me win games. That is bad.

Trust me. I'venever had a Dragon effect I can't use. I've occasionaly had them and chosen not to use them based on what was on the table and what I knew was in their deck, but that is hardly the same thing. If I have a dragon bite in hand and no dragon also in hand or on the table, I don't think I've not drawn one the next turn except for maybe once.

You say superflorous... I say redundant. Remember this is a melee oriented deck. IT does well in joust, but in melee more cards doing the same thing is usually better than fewer.