By the way, the thing that I found hardest to deal with Perthius' deck was the constant of power characters. In each of the three games we played, he'd Ser Jorah, Theon (who turned out to be pretty good with Song of Summer + summer), or Brienne with dupes. Brienne is especially difficult to play against with a Martell deck, though Jorah and Theon were no picnic either. The big armies that didn't kneel were also very threatening.

Also, for some reason, Kill for Your King and To Be A Wolf hit me at all the wrong times. Parting blow didn't seem to help him much though, and the Cannot Be Bribed did nothing. With a few adjustments to this decklist, the results could have been a bit different.

My Martell summer decklist may be a bit different than the typical Martell list though. It's a bit slower, with more control, so Perthius' speed presented a special challenge to the deck that I expected to come only from Bara. (I'm really glad his heavy hitters didn't have renown.)

I lost my match with Erick... no history... Lanni were always superior in number and of course kneel :-)

And today I go out the tournament... so sad!!! ;-)

I win with Paul 2:1.

First match I was an error so i give it to Paul.

Second and third match was my wins.

@Perthius:

Very interesting decklist, hadn't thought about running a totally locationless deck with Stark to improve the quality of draw instead of the quantity! And I agree with the cavalry flanks being very powerful and comboing nicely with seductive promise, should help the deck nicely.

Only thing I was wondering about was the almost total lack of attachments, when compared to the ~20 events? There's a few attachments in Stark that could nicely fit such a low-gold -type deck (Winter Cache and Icy Catapult come to mind), and since there's a noticable lack of efficient attachment control in the environment and some powerful effects that are limited by attachments (Castellan of the Rock and Aegon's Legacy come to mind), these might come in useful. Personally I'd run the peasant defenders and some weapon attachments in such a deck, but that might be just due to personal taste. =)

Also, two other cards that might be helpful come to mind: Old Nan (for the Carrion Bird -combo) and Maester Vyman (anti-kneel).

Hmmm, I don't think I want Old Nan, Vyman or the Peasant Defenders. I find it really hard to justify a 2 cost 2 STR character with Venemous Blade around, and Peasant Defenders have the added vulnerability of being an Ally, so you might lose 2 cards for nothing if you put an attachment on them.

As for attachments I removed Northern Steel so I have none in there now. Originally I didn't want attachments because of Compelled by the Rock and Kraznys Mo Nakloz. Now that Compelled by the Rock is gone I will definitely consider adding Ice, but that's the only one. Icy Catapult is a Limited Response and I already have 3 of those (Kill for Your King!), I also have Lethal Counterattack and dupes for saves so I don't think it fits in very well. Winter Cache has too weak an effect to take a slot when I have such low draw, it's only strength is it's longevity and I just can't see it ever winning me the game against a control deck.

kuba: what's your email address? we should go ahead and schedule our semi-final game

finitesquarewell said:

My e-mail is in first post in this thread, same as Skype:)

And I'm out....

Great games, Zsa. It's just too difficult to keep up with your draw and kneel.

If anyone is interested in my decklist (Martell Summer), I can post here or somewhere else. (Maybe we should have a designated thread for recent "tournament decklists?" This seems like it would be a popular pre-regionals thread.)

@ Twn2d: I for one am very interested! But I agree that a separate thread might be good for these, as it would help combat subject creep in threads... =)

...so top 4 is 75% Lannister... (and the only Lannister deck was knocked out by another one)

Yeah, separate thread will be good. When im finish i put there my decklist.

I played my first game vs Jonathan yesterday and he won

The game was simply epic - we played for 13 rounds - I had no more cards in my deck and he had under 10 (I think).

He managed to stop me at 14 power and then brought home the win. I'll post more details once the tourny is done.

Can't wait for Sunday for our next game

It was an honor and a privelege, good ser. "There goes the neighborhood" after Fleeing to the Wall was classic.

Sunday should be another great one.

Ive lost my game with Erick Butzlaff 0:2.

It was a honor to match up with You. Thanks for a game. Now I can post my declist.

Thanks to everyone for a great tournament:)

Zsa closed me out in quick order after our first marathon game. The second game I got to 13 before he got control, although I didn't hit any draw after the first round, so I never felt like I was going to win that one. The third game was not even as close as the second.

Congrats to Zsa on a great run thus far and a great deck. I look forward to seeing the results between finite and Zsa, and I'll post a tournament report after they are done.

Could You post Your Martell Deck?

@Twn2d, Kuba: I made a thread for recent tournament decks, like we were talking about - It can be found here.

I for one am interested in seeing what others have been playing with... =)

Me and finite will play our match next week.

And I'd really like to thank the organizers longclaw and Gualdo who made this tourney possible. Keep doing what you're doing guys

Kuba said:

Just for you...

www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp

Man, I hate to wait until next week to find out who wins the finals. Maybe I should use the time to organize this thing, sell tickets, popcorn...

Hmmm...

I posted my decklist, along with a write up of my impressions on the tourney, here: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp?efid=16&efcid=4&efidt=312006

And the final is over.

Erick won in the end 2-1, some pretty cool lanni on lanni action in those three games.

I'll give a short account for each game later and post my decklist as well.

I'd like to congratulate Erick for the win and send a thank you to our two organizers - longclaw and Gualdo.

thanks, zsa, for the particularly challenging games, and to everyone i played against throughout the tourney. i have to debate whether i want to post such a solid decklist this close to regionals seasion, though; we'll see. ;-)

Game 1: In the first game, I started with a setup of Queen's Cersei's chamber, one GTM and a card in shadows. Erick plays GTM and 3 characters. The first game was pretty much over in the first turn, when Erick played another GTM and discarded mine with a river bandit. Since I didn't have any discard location cards, and he was double drawing me, the game pretty much went only downhill from there for me.

Game 2: Second game, Erick mulligans and gets a setup of only Castellan, Refugee and card in shadows, while I have a decent four card setup. There was a point in the game where finite had the upper-hand and almost won with a Tyrion out of shadows, but I managed to recover since I drew a lot using King's Landing, and kept his locations in check with condemned and pyro apprentice.

Game 3: Third game, I take a mulligan and start with a setup of Carrion and 2 shadow cards. Erick has Tommen, Castellan, Cersei's Chambers and a Sea out. In my most pitiful first round ever, I play Valar, and during marshaling I play just one GTM. Fortunately for me, Erick had no River Bandit, and no GTM of his own. So after 2 turns of 3 unopposed challenges, I manage to take some control of the game and stop Erick at around 9 power. A really memorable moment in the game was Cersei managing to kill my Tyrion with the help of I'm You Writ Small . Another nice moment was when I had Varys and a Pyro prentice as the only 2 standing characters on the board with Kingdom of Shadows in play and Erick plays 2 You've Killed the Wrong Dwarf. The game ended in turn 7 when Tyrion's evil twin brother came out of shadows, and with only 4 power required to win, he brought Erick home the win.