I've been tinkering around with the recommendations given by defensiveian over at BGG. So far every deck that is available to my gaming group follows the below guidelines:
"Plot Deck: Includes 7 unique plots, with a total gold sum of around 32.
Player Deck: 60 cards, including 33 Characters, 15 Location and 12 Attachments and Events.
33 Characters includes 3x 1-Cost Reducers, 6x Chars costing 6+ Gold, 9x Chars costing 4 or 5 Gold, 15x Chars costing 3 or less Gold."
I like most of his deck recommendations and I find that curve to be good, not just for setup (I'm often able to play 4 cards from hand) but also throughout the game. I'm trying to beef up the Watch a bit however, especially on a few key cards (the ones with "(X?)"). Cards like Benjen, Littlefinger and Ranging Party all work to add strength, I guess I'm just not sure at what point is 3 too many copies or 2 not enough. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
[7g] 3x Old Bear Mormont
[6g] 2x Ser Alliser Thorne
[5g] 2x Wildling Horde
[5g] 1(2?)x Littlefinger
[5g] 3(2?)x Benjen Stark
[4g] 3(2?)x Ranging Party
[4g] 2x Will
[3g] 2x Ser Waymar Royce
[3g] 2x Maester Aemon
[3g] 2x Unsworn Apprentice
[3g] 2x Veteran Builder
[2g] 2x Samwell Tarly
[2g] 2x House Maester
[1g] 2x Messenger Raven
[1g] 3x Steward at the Wall
Locations:
3x Roseroad*
3x Kingsroad*
3x A Meager Contributionâ€
2x Castle Black
3x The Wall
1x Tourney Grounds
Attachments & Events:
2(1?)x Longclaw
2x Milk of the Poppy
2x The Hand's Judgment
2x Take the Black
2(3?)x Practice Blade
2x The Watcher on the Walls