Greetings, A Game of Thrones fans! Today, we present our final LCG Days winner’s commentary. Greg Atkinson was the A Game of Thrones: The Card Game Overall Regional Champion. Here are Greg’s thoughts on his decks and the tournament!
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My Melee Deck House: Lannister |
My Joust Deck House: Martell |
| Plots: Alliance Summoning Season At the Gates Building Season Snowed Under A Time for Ravens Spending the Winter Stores Maester Aemon (Core) x1 | Plots: City of Soldiers City of Sin City of Lies Valar Dohaeris Valar Morghulis At the Gates Loyalty Money Can Buy Kingdom of Shadows x3 |
Minnesota has twice before been the site of a regional victory for me, however, this one came in a slightly different fashion.
The Melee
For the Melee portion of the event, I played Lannister White Book. My deck was a Brotherhood Trait manipulation deck that used infamy to keep power off my house. The Agenda was another option to keep power off of my house as I was only running one Kingsguard character. Old Nan, Lion's Gate, Copper Link, Carrion Bird, Horn of Dragons, Dissension and Abandoned Fort created a ton of fun and didn't require that I win any challenges to control the board.
I went 3-0 in my three swiss Melee games, although all the games were close. Having an unkillable Beric Dondarrion really helped provide sustainability to my deck. I placed third at the final table in Melee, but had a chance to win the table if I had played Old Nan on my last turn instead of Abandoned Fort with my remaining two gold. Just a heads up to all of you Melee players out there: if someone plays Ahead of the Tide on a turn on which they reveal Valar, they clearly feel they can win that turn. And never make a deal with Kennon, he will break it when it stops serving him.
The Joust
For the Joust portion of the event, I played Martell City of Shadows. The deck uses the typical Martell control (Venomous Blade, Burning on the Sand, A Game of Cyvasse, He Calls it Thinking) combined with the Shadows control locations of The Black Cells and Alchemist’s Guild Hall. It ran a full assortment of characters that could be used to close the game out (Shadows Tyrion, Southron Mercenaries, Red Viper, Arianne Martell), so I would try to get a control lock in place, then close out the game with a power grabbing character.
I went 4-1 in swiss, losing to Luke Reed in a game that went to time. We cut to top 4, and after winning my first game, I lost in a tough, 12 plot battle to Luke Reed again. I thought I had set up the control lock against Luke with multiple Black Cells in play, but he marshaled the Red Viper and swept to a 7 power turn for the win.
So I won the Overall Regional Championship in total points and came home with the trophy and a first round bye at Gen Con. It was the first time I've ever won an event without winning one of the two major events.