Night's Watch - Total Garbage?

By lahomen, in 1. AGoT General Discussion

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Dobbler said:

I've built several MwnK decks lately, and they simply haven't been as good as I hoped. Its essentially a combo deck...you need MwnK on the table (4 gold investment), you need a reinforcement in hand (another 2-3 gold required to trigger MwnK), and you need a high quality neutral or OOH card to steal. In order to make the combo reliable you have to play Summoning Season to go get MwnK, and you need to play 9-12 reinforcements. By the time you've done all that, you have really watered down you deck against anything that isn't relying on neutrals and OOH stuff. And don't forget MwnK can still be canceled by some of the common cancel effects (He Calls it Thinking, Seasick, To Be A Kraken)

Its always a big swing when you get to steal a high quality card (The Wall, WIldling Horde, etc, etc), but it just isn't a reliable tournament strategy.

That's pretty telling analysis - coming from one of the game's foremost combo players and evaluators.

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Well, if you think about it, most NW decks are going to want to use The Wall, so the MwnK deck is going to want to take control of it not to use it but instead deny it's use to the opponent. That's alot of setup and resources to use to take a card that you likely won't use, just to hamper your opponent. Or you can let it sit there and hope to grab another card but there is such a wide variety of decks at present that tech-ing for a NW or Wildling deck could easily backfire when you go up against the Stark W5K deck.

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Martell has always reply to the wall deck... pit viper and underneath assassin... must add some direwolf in the deck to kill those bastard weenies :-)