I've been playing a Lanni kneel deck in one form or another since LCG became the format du jour, and this is the latest incarnation.

Agenda: City of Shadows.

Plots:

A Time for Ravens.

City of Sin.

The Winds of Winter.

Wildfire Assault.

Fury of the Lion.

City of Lies.

City of Secrets.

Characters: (31)

1x Silent Sisters.

1x Arya Stark. (Shadows one)

3x Gold Cloaks.

1x Tyrion Lannister. (Shadows one)

1x Ser Barristan Selmy. (Shadows one)

3x Mountain Refugee.

3x Carrion Bird.

3x Cersei's Attendant.

1x Samwell Tarly.

1x Tommen Baratheon.

3x Lannisport Steward.

3x Castellan of the Rock.

1x Cersei Lannister. (Shadows one)

1x Chella, Daughter of Cheyk.

1x Jalahbar Xho.

1x Old Nan

1x Ser Ilyn Payne.

1x Ser Jaime Lannister

1x Littlefinger.

Locations: (15)

1x Kingswood Trail.

1x Lion's Gate.

3x Sunset Sea.

2x Twilight Market.

1x Queen Cersei's Chamber.

3x Crossroads.

1x Hall of Heroes.

1x Lannisport Brothel.

1x Sweet Cersei.

1x Tunnels of the Red Keep.

Attachments: (4)

2x Milk of the Poppy.

1x White Raven.

1x Black Raven.

Events: (10)

2x Shadow Politics

3x A Lannister Pays His Debts.

1x Condemned by the Council.

2x Insidious Ways.

2x You've Killed the Wrong Dwarf.

I've had some good luck with this deck and won more games than I have lost. That said, some choices may seem peculiar and I may as well list my rationale for those choices.

Firstly, You may notice that I run one of both of the ravens and the winter plot. The reason being alot of decks in my area run season's and the fastest way to throw a wrench in their plans is to tutor up the opposite season. As for the winter plot, well, it's two claim and it has the strongest ability for all the two claim plots, albeit only sometimes.

The singleton Old Nan may not look a little out of place, but it was mostly put in the deck to interact with Carrion Bird, which should hopefully clear stuff up. The interaction is making one of the opponent's creatures a raven during challenges, winning a challenge with Carrion Bird and then shuffling the "raven" you just made into their deck. And if they choose to claim that guy instead, atleast you get to choose who they claim.

And lastly, the odd numbers in the non-unique cards (various one and two-ofs) are the product of me switching around the numbers to what feels right (or not wanting to buy more than one chapter pack). I'm not saying those are the end all be all, but they are a good balance and don't inhibit you're deck.

Out of curiosity, why no Tywin? I'm working on a Lanni shadows deck myself, and I am trying to figure out whether to run the new Tywin, or the old one. Right now, I've been running the old Tywin, but I can't imagine running no Tywin at all...

I like it. Similar to a Lannister City of Shadows deck I made. Interesting choices. I'm going to need to spend a little more time evaluating the differences between our decks.

I didn't put Tywin in because neither of his cards were good enough to justify the cost to me. I don't want to make my curve too high so the only five cost character that made the cut was Littlefinger simply because he can get really huge and the deck is a tad lacking in that department. I used to play with the old Tywin and Littlefinger and after getting in 5-10 games in with the deck it was clear that one of them had to go and Littlefinger had been performing better. And I haven't seen too many shadows decks other than mine in the area so I haven't tried the new Tywin although I certainly wouldn't be opposed to the idea, especially if you can get good use out of him even if your opponent isn't playing shadows.

It looks pretty good, but why even run the agenda? Looks like you have 3 cards in the deck that are in use because of it: Arya, Selmy and one Kingswood Trail. Seems to me that neither of those two characters are especially worth running the agenda and the location is only okay. Would you not be better served ditching those three cards and the agenda for 3 in-house cards?

I had wondered the same thing about the agenda, but in the end I think it is something that makes the deck not just another kneel lanni deck. Especially if you can get say the Tyrion/Arya combo off. They are either going to stop military challenges or give Tyrion +2 str each round and most likely renown or deadly depending on the stage of the game. Having faced this it wasn't a fun choice to have to make. I honestly don't see that the agenda has a negative, but the upside is that you can play with a few cards you wouldn't be able too, and as new shadow cards are added you aren't having to remake your deck. That said my Shadows Lannister deck is very different, but I see a lot of flaws in it, this deck is much harder to beat.