Dothraki Hollow Hill

By lahomen, in 4. AGoT Deck Construction

This is my first attempt at using the Hollow Hill agenda, so I would really appreciate any insight. I'm currently working on building a Dothraki deck, using the agenda to fuel all the cool ambush Dothraki stuff. Any insight would be greatly appreciated, especially by anyone who has already used the Hollow Hill agenda.

Plots:
Regroup
Prince that Was Promised
Take Them by Surprise
Marched to the Wall
Siege of Riverrun
After the Mummer's Ford
Red Wedding

Characters - 31

0 - 4
Dothraki Refugee x3
Brown Ben Plum

1 - 3
Viserys
Hatchlings x2

2 - 10
Bitter Crone x3
Horseback Hunters x3
Ser Jorah Mormont
Blood Crazed Screamer x3

3 - 6
Rakharo
Aggo
Jhogo x3
Daenerys

4 - 3
Khal Drogo
Dothraki Honor Guard
Daemon Blackfyre

6 - 4
Drogo's Horde x3
Free Cities Mercenary

Attachments - 9
Rakharo's Arakh
Jhogo's Whip
Aggo's Bow x2
Aegon's Blade
Mercenary Contract
Tears of Lys
Bowl of Brown
Rusted Sword

Locations - 11
Lady Danys Chambers
2reducer x3
Sea x3
Xaro's Home
Meerenese Brothel
Vaes Dothrak
The Womb of the World

Events - 11
Forever Burning x3
Deadly Khalasar x3
When I Woke x2
Die by the Sword x3

I tried to reformat your deck, but there are some uncertainties (in italics). And your characters count should be 30, not 31. Also please indicate which version of the characters you use (Jhogo exists both in Core Set and BWB expansion)

Too bad the board doesn't allow fixed-width fonts nor colors :'(

Deck name: Dothraki Hollow Hill
Author: jmccarthy
House: Targaryen (Knights of the Hollow Hill)
Description : This is my first attempt at using the Hollow Hill agenda, so I would really appreciate any insight. I'm currently working on building a Dothraki deck, using the agenda to fuel all the cool ambush Dothraki stuff. Any insight would be greatly appreciated, especially by anyone who has already used the Hollow Hill agenda.

Deck [58]

Plot [7] (Income: min: 2 max: 5 avg: 3.00)
1× Siege of Riverrun 3 4 2 - Military Battle.
1× Regroup 2 2 2
1× Take Them by Surprise 5 11 1
1× The Red Wedding 4 3 1 - Power Struggle.
1× The Prince That Was Promised 4 3 1
1× Marched to the Wall 3 3 1
1× After the Mummer's Ford 3 5 1 - Military Battle.

Location [8]
1× Vaes Dothrak * (BWB-1) [3] - The East. - No attachments.
1× The Womb of the World * (BWB-4) [2] - The East.
1× Lady Daenerys's Chambers * (CS) [2] - Free Cities.
1× Meereenese Brothel [1] - The East.
1× Xaro's Home * (Winter) [0] - Free Cities.
3× Summer Sea [0] ?1 - Westeros.

??3×2reducers

Attachment [9]
1× Jhogo's Whip * (BWB-5) [2] - House Targaryen only. Ambush. Dothraki character only.
2× Aggo's Bow * (BWB-2) [2] - House Targaryen only. Ambush. Dothraki character only.
1× Tears of Lys [1]
1× Rusted Sword [1]
1× Rakharo's Arakh * (BWB-1) [1] - House Targaryen only. Ambush. Dothraki character only.
1× Mercenary Contract [1] - War character only.
1× Aegon's Blade * (CS) [1]
1× Bowl of Brown [0]

Character [30]
1× Free Cities Mercenaries [4] 6 M P - Army. Mercenary. [shadow] - House Targaryen only. Renown. No attachments.

3× Drogo's Horde [6] 6 M P - Army. Dothraki. [War] - Deadly. No attachments except Weapon.
??1× Khal Drogo * (DotN-1) [4] 3 M P - Lord. Dothraki. [Noble] - Renown.
1× Dothraki Honor Guard [4] 4 M P - Army. Dothraki. - House Targaryen only. No attachments.
1× Daemon Blackfyre * (KL-4) [4] 4 M P - Bastard. - Renown.
1× Rakharo * (BWB-1) [3] 3 M P - Dothraki. Queensguard. [War] - No attachments except Weapon.
??3× Jhogo * (Winter) [3] 3 M P - Dothraki. Queensguard. - Stealth.
1× Daenerys Targaryen * (CS) [3] 3 I P - Lady. Queen. [Noble] - Renown.
1× Aggo * (BWB-2) [3] 3 M P - Dothraki. Queensguard.
1× Ser Jorah Mormont * (ITE) [2] 3 M I P - Knight. Traitor. - Stealth.
3× Horseback Hunters [2] 3 M - Dothraki. - House Targaryen only. Ambush.
3× Blood-Crazed Screamer [2] 1 M - Dothraki. Ally.
3× Bitter Crone [2] 2 I P - Dothraki. Ally.
??1× White Hatchling * (DotN-5) [1] 1 M - Creature. Dragon. - No attachments. Stealth.
??1× Viserys Targaryen * (KotSe) [1] 1 P - Lord. King.
??1× Green Hatchling * (DotN-4) [1] 2 M - Creature. Drago
n. - No attachments.
3× Refugee of the Plains [0] 2 M P - Dothraki. Refugee.
1× Brown Ben Plumm * (ASoT) [0] 2 M - Mercenary.

Event [11]
2× When I Woke...
3× Forever Burning - House Targaryen only. Deathbound.
3× Die by the Sword
3× Deadly Khalasar

I've built a KotHH deck with a lot of Dothraki in it... it was ok but it seemed like Stark can do the military thing better. It is a fun deck to play though since your opponent never knows what to expect with all the ambush happy.gif

I'm guessing you are using the BWB Jhogo for draw and core Khal Drogo. I'd take out Daemon Blackfyre and the Honor Guard and probably Daenerys too in favor of some Queen's Knights, maybe cut back on the events a bit. I think the "3x 2reducers" is 3x Great Pyramid (?) and if so I think you should take at least one out and add in another Lady Daenerys' Chambers so you have a better chance of drawing it, same for Xaro's maybe, depending on how effective your draw mechanics are.
I'd also add at least one Rhaeny's Hill since your opponent should have a huge dead pile if your deck is working properly.

Just curious, how is this dothraki Hollow Hill deck playing out? My first thought is that dothraki would have to be fast, or else pack A TON of removal (including location removal) to deal with heavy control decks in the late game. Is the deck running for you? If it's running too slow, try losing the agenda and lowering the gold curve, or else pack in quite a bit more removal (especially location removal). If it's performing well, any example matches/games you can discuss.

I'm really curious....

I've made a Knights of the Hollow Hill Dothraki deck. Mine focuses on getting the strong Dothraki characters out (such as Aggo and Drogo) and putting plenty of attachments on them. Khal Drogo and Rakharo's Arakh is a deadly combo and one of my favorites. Different from yours, my deck has fewer characters in number to put out, but uses Pentos to keep my few characters alive. My struggle is keeping complete board control to give me a fighting chance.

Here's the list.

31 Characters

x3 Refugees

x1 Viserys (T108)

x3 Dragon Thief

x3 Horseback Hunters

x3 Street Waif

x2 Blood-Crazed Screamer

x3 Aggo

x3 Rakharo

x3 Jhogo (F89)

x1 Bringers of Law

x3 Khal Drogo (F9)

x3 Drogo's Horde

10 Attackments

x1 Jhogo's Whip

x1 Aegon's Blade

x2 Aggo's Bow

x2 Rakharo's Arakh

x2 Bones of a Child

x2 Hrakkar Pelt

12 Locations

x3 Summer Sea

x2 Shivering Sea

x2 Eastern Fiefdoms

x2 Pentos

x2 Lady Daenerys's Chambers

x1 Vaes Dothrak

8 Events

x2 True Power

x3 Distraction

x3 Deadly Khalasar

7 Plots

Wildfire Assault

Valar Morghulis

Fury of the Dragon

Building Season

Storm of Swords

Regroup

Counting Favors

My first idea with this Dothraki deck was to emphasize on the ambush and burns, but it was too hard to juggle. So I thought, "Instead of trying to kill ALL my enemies characters, why not focus on keeping mine alive?" The Pentos and plenty of attachments works out very well, but I feel outnumbered too many times. Hence why I run two resets.

Hi there, my "first time" here ;)

I've been runing a Dothraki deck recently aswell, it's really fun to play, but my approach ist slighlty different.

As you guys above, I first tried to use KotHH Agenda, but the deck was waaaay to slow, nad got crushed before it got a chance to stabilize, so I decided to go back in time and use Kings of Summer Agenda with some burn effects. The advanteges the Agenda gives me: more draw before Jhogo comes to the table and in case I'm playing a control deck, that prevents Jhogo from working. With lots of events Fairweather Followers work just fine and Red Warlock gives me acces to attachments I need in given moment. So here it goes:

Agenda:

Kings Of Summer

Plots:

A Time of Ravens

Fury Of the Dragon

Song Of Summer

Take them bu surprise

Valar Morghulis

Mutual Cause

Retaliation!

Characters [31]

1x Khal Drogo (Core)

2x Refugee of the Plains

3x Horseback Hunters

1x Rakharo

3x Drogo's Horde

2x Bitter Crone

1x Aggo

3x Blood-crazed Screamer

3x Jhogo

3x Street Waif

3x Dragon Thief

1x Ser Jorah Mormont

3x Fairweather Followers

2x Red Warlock

Locations [11]

2x Lady Daenery's Chambers

3x Eastern Fifedoms

3x Summer Sea

1x Khal Drogo's Tent

2x Rhaeny's Hill

Attachments [10]

3x Flame-Kissed

1x Rakharo's Arakh

1x Jhogo's Whip

2x Aggo's Bow

2x Tears Of Lys

1x Black Raven

Events [9]

3x Deadly Khalasar

3x Forever burning

3x To be a dragon

The idea is just simple, burn effects help me get rid of all those annoying characters, and multiple millitary challanges do the rest. With Rhaeny's Hill and to be a dragon I can call all the zombies to war ;) but this deck needs time to get going, it has some problems with fast rush decks, such as Bara (but I had some successes facing them aswell ;) ) Right now I thing if I reaaly need all those fancy Dothraki attachments. They are good for a surprise sometimes, but since the most important only work when I'm attacking (and Aggo's Bow is only limited to military challanges), I rarely get a chance to use them. Because with deadly, my opponent is scared to defend with his valuable characters. So in the future I will try to run a deck without those attachements and maybe add some more burn.

Any ideas that can help improve this deck will be very appriciated (since I'm still a beginer to this game)

Military "rush" is definitely not an option with the Hollow Hill agenda, IMHO. That seems to leave two options: military rush w/out the agenda, and a heavier dose of burn to supplement the dothraki military wins. I'm going to play around with both options, and I'll post my thoughts. Anyone else try Dothraki w/out Hollow Hill? Or have success "rushing" with the agenda?

HemAhn said:

...Any ideas that can help improve this deck will be very appriciated (since I'm still a beginer to this game)

One quick thought, why only 1 copy of Black Raven if you are using Kings of Summer? If you've already used Time for Ravens and a Carrion Bird gets rid of the Raven then the chances of getting it back into play seem poor; you'll really be hurting for it if someone gets a White Raven out due to the penalty on your Agenda.
Also, have you considered using Dragon Sight if you are playing with Summer? It's really nice to know in advance who defenders are if you are using the Dothraki Ambush attachments gran_risa.gif

I did consider using Dragons Sight, just need to work on some place in my deck for that card ;)

And why only one raven? In my meta people don't play a lot of season, and if they do, it's summer. I can get hurt, when someone plays a white raven, but when I know somone has a white raven, a just keep my black raven in hand until he plays his raven (summer is not that important for me in this deck), or if my raven is discarded I can easiliy get him back with Lady Daenery's Chambers. And in case of a Carrion Bird, I always have a Flame-Kissed to protect my bird ;)

Tried the Dothraki without the Hollow Hill agenda. Worked so much better.