Hi everybody i have been playing the LCG game for a while now and i have most of the chapter packs and the kings of the sea expansion. I really like house baratheon and their abilities. I have a pretty good deck going right now i just need a few tips on how to make a solid and competitive baratheon deck. Any help would be awesome thanks.
Building Baratheon
Why don't you start it off with an outline of what's in your deck and your experiences with it? That would give us a lot more to go on.
Good call i totall spaced on that. Here is what i am currently running in my Baratheon deck. Sorry for the long post couldnt figure out how to shorten it. Any feedback would be great.
Characters
Ser Davos Seaworth x1
Master Cressen x1
Host of Storm's end
Bastoard of Robert x1
Demons Dance x1 Stanis Baratheon x1
Edric Storm x1
Exhausted Horsemen x1
Jon Snow x1
Shae x1
Army of the Faithful x1
Brienne of Tarth x1
Arena Knight x1
Master Aemon x1
Renly Baratheonx1
Stannis Northern Cavalry x1
Mance Rayder x1
Melisandre x1
Priestess of the Pyre x1
Robert Baratheon( Claims additional power) x2
Shadow Stalker x1
House Tyrell Guard x1
Old Red Priest x1 Summers Champion x1
Attachments
White Raven x2
Black Raven x2
Shadows Blessing x1
Stinking Drunk x1
Motley x2
Demons Dance x1
Lightbringer x1
Burning Sword x1
Locations
Narrow Sea x2
The Wall x1
Street of Sisters x1
King Roberts Chambers x1
Great Hall x1
Shadowblack lane x1
Stormlands Fiefdoms x1
Aegons Garden x1
Events
Muster x1
Prosrosperity and Plent x2
WInter Reserves x1
Retreat x1
Retreat and Regroup x1
Missing Recruit x1
Distinct Mastery x1
Distraction x1
Summer Reserves.
Sorry Forgot my plots here they are, and i also tend to run a summer agenda.
Plots
Snowed under
The winds of Winter
Wildfire Assault
A time For Ravens
Uneasy Truce
A song of summer
The Power of Blood
well i don't personally like to run both summer and winter tech in the same deck, but if its working for you then thats cool. though i would definatly not be running the summer agenda in a dec kwhere i was going to be making it winter myself. the -1 to the draw during winter is just not a good thing to do to yourself.
You should concentrate on Summer (Kings of Summer, Samwell - draw, Gilly) , quick Power Grab (characters with Renown, Power Challenges, Martial Law, Distinct Mastery, Arena Knight - with Summer again:) ) and Noble Crest (2x Power of the Blood Plot), some more saves than plot (bodyguard, Lightbringer etc), and drop some cards to make opoonent's live harder (like Milk of the Poppy). Thats i see Baratheon Game:)
Actually Baratheon Winter is pretty strong with The Wall and Shadowstalker.
What you are getting here is your deck is not very focused. You have a lot of good cards and some neat synergy between 2-4 card sets in it, but your deck would probably work better if you figured out a single primary focus (standing, winter, summer, renown, intrigue, power, etc.) and worked those cards as your core group. Then figure out what cards can really support those cards and that mechanic. Lets say you want to do an Asshai deck (I'm not saying you should just using it as an example). You include Melisandre, Old Red Priest, Army of the Faithful, Preistess of the Pyre, Zealous Collector, and Fiery Followers. Now some of these you may want x1, some x2, some (maybe all) x3. Take a look at what cards work with the asshai trait. Coincidently they are already in your deck (Mel and AotF). So we have cards that power up your Asshai and get reduced by the number of asshai you have in play. You have a lot of intrigue and power icons available to you, and you have some vigilant. Any of these can become a secondary focus for you.
Toss in Seductive promise because you have some strong power icons available to you. Toss in Fury of the Stag for the same reason and now you have multiple opportunities to steal characters from your opponent. Toss in Support of the Kingdom and you can know steal locations! You need some claim soak and you need some more utility characters. So you toss in the rufgees and Robert's Bastards. Etc. etc.
Your deck could easily be focused in a few different directions, figure out what mechanic you either enjoy the most, or gets you the most bang for your buck in your meta and focus on that. It maybe Demon dance and changing of the seasons (though I'm mre likely to run that out of Targaryen since they can search for and recycle attachments a bit easier than others), or it may be non-kneeling defense. Each of those will require a number of cards to ensure you can do it regularly and a number of cards that can take the most advantage out of it.
If you are looking for a suggestion, try a Vigilant Winter deck using The Wall. Your Vigilant characters keep standing every time you win a challenge on attack, The Wall means you don't have to kneel anyone to defend. Add some Distinct Mastery and/or To Be a Stag and you could be giving your opponents absolute fits. Keep a reasonable icon spread and you should be able to oppose pretty much every challenge (barring greyjoy and their intimidate), and even Lannister kneel shouldn't be too painful, since you should be able to stand back up a few of your characters with a won attack.