Has anyone tried to build a deck around the Winds of Winter version of The Wall? I dismissed this card outright because of its 4 cost, but if you could get it to work...
The Wall (WOW)!
jmccarthy said:
Has anyone tried to build a deck around the Winds of Winter version of The Wall? I dismissed this card outright because of its 4 cost, but if you could get it to work...
I think it's too expensive to build a really good Deck around. Maybe in LCG can it work, because there is almost nothing against Locations.
Well, there is no real benefit to making all your Baratheon characters Night's Watch, so the question is whether or not the 4-gold is worth not kneeling to defend.
It could be done and it would probably be a decent deck, but it's not the first deck I'd spend a lot of time on. Maybe if there were more Night's Watch support than just Ghost and Maester Aemon. Personally, I think I'd build a deck around Vigilant, Banner for the Storm and the event "For Family and Honor" from the Calling the Banners Chapter Pack to achieve roughly the same effect (of having plenty of available defenders) before building a "Wall" deck.
It makes me wonder whether there is more Winter support coming for Baratheon/Stannis, since nearly all their other seasonal cards are Summer oriented. Baratheons also got Shadow Stalker, which seems to be a Winter/Stannis themed as well. I do like how the card ties in nicely with the books, and the art is very enjoyable... makes me want to find a use for it. : )
Hah. Funny, I didn't get the acronym at first. I thought you were all excited about the card. Like "The Wall! (WOW!!!).
As we say here in the Philippines, yun pala hindi. Loosely translated: Um... no.
It was intentionally dry humor. :-) I built a deck around this card, and played two games with it. In the first game, it worked well enough, but some well-placed Stealth characters seriously undermined its effectiveness. In the second game, its high cost proved fatal, as it prevented me from playing enough characters from effectively using it. Final verdict: enjoyable, but not practical.