Anyone tried to make a competitive deck based on the "Scorched earth" card? Any success?

I'll try to build one this week so if you have any advice, they're welcome!

fabest said:

With the exception of the advice "Don´t do it" ? ;-) Here´s why i think it´s a bad choice:

1. Don´t count their strength doesn´t reduce the charachters strength to 0, so the usual Targ burn won´t work against charachters that don´t count their strength.
2. You´ll need a lot of army charachters to take an advantage here, armies are usually expensive and so is scorched earth.
3. If you have the initiative and go first you could at best squeeze out one unopposed challenge, well unless you have a lot of armies that could also happen to you if your opponent goes first.
4. Since no matter how many scorched earth cards are on the table only the first challenge each round is effected by scorched earth, a player can easily work around the effect by declaring a weenie charachter for a challenge he couldn´t hope to win anyway.

I really can´t see how a reliable deck concept could be made with this card. Well you could try to win initiative let your opponent go first and play Questioned claim to probably nullify his whole challenge phase, but there are to many IFs in that combo for my taste. I would rather prefer to run flaming pitch tower instead and kill a charachter every round.

Thanks for your answer Ben.

It's my specialty to try out decks around one interesting but not very good card ^^

It's not meant to win tournaments, just to try something a bit different from the classic Targaryen Burn deck.

The idea is to defend the first rounds while building (with Scorched earth it's one challenge less for the opponent + Viserys/Aemon & Bones of a child) then Valar then put the good cards.

With Scorched earth + Armies + Flamepitch tower you can do some bad to your opponent, especially with your 2 claim plots (too bas they have low initiative).

I'll post my deck 1.0 soon ^^

Ok, here it is:

Targaryen House

Kings of Summer Agenda

Plots

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- The Power of Arms x2

- Building Season

- Valar Morghulis

- A Time for ravens

- A Song of Summer

- Fury of the Dragon

Characters (31):

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- Warlock's Servitors x3

- Fairweather Followers x3

- Destitute Horde x3

- Stormcrows x2

- Viserys Targaryen (CS) x2

- Dragon Thief x3

- Maester Aemon ( ACoSe) x2

- Red Warlock x3

- Rhaegar Targaryen x1

- Refugee of the plains x3

- Khal Drogo x1

- Kraznys mo Nakloz x2

- Illyrio's Man x3

Attachments (6)

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- Black Raven x1

- Bones of a child x2

- Aegon's Blade x1

- Flamed-Kiss x2

Locations (18)

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- Eastern Fiefdoms x3

- Temple of the Garces x3

- Summer Sea x3

- Khal Drog's Tent x1

- Flaming-Pitch Tower x3

- Lady Daenerys's Chambers x3

- Scorched Earth x2

Events (5)

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- To be a Dragon x1

- Seductive Promise x2

- Forever Burning x2

I removed ;

1 Warlock's Servitors

1 Stormcrows

2 Seductive Promise

To add:

1 Forever Burning

1 Flamed-Kiss

1 Daenerys Targaryen

1 Rhaegar's Harp

1 Queen Daenerys's Horde

1 Bones of a child

So now it's 62 cards.