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We recap the Whelming the Conclave Chapter pack and share our top 10 most seen plots during the regional season!

What plots have you seen over and over that we did not put on our top 10?

Good episode, as far as plots go the only ones yall didn't cover that I see quite often are The Power of... plots.

I agree that At the Gates is perhaps alittle too good at the moment. Actually I think the top 3 plots: Retaliation, Valar, and Gates are making the plot selection too easy. I wouldn't mind seeing all 3 go on the restricted list. Although I think if we did it would be better to have 2 restricted lists, one with plots and another with other cards.

Darksbane said:

I don't exactly agree here. I do feel that each of these cards in their own right are popular now, but I don't feel that all three of them are an auto include. And personally, I prefer "Take them by suprise" over Retaliation as it's income and initiative are higher, and when playing most of my decks I prefer to go first anyways as I usually prefer playing on the attack.

I do agree that there were alot of the "Power of" cards that were played.

Winged_Human said:

Relative to the competitive scene, I would never, ever, ever play Take them by Surprise in a tournament.

I was quite fond of Take Them By Suprise... until the first time I got my hand discarded by it. The second time I got my hand discarded by it it got removed from all my decks except for a really janky clansmen deck I've got.

I played Take them by Surprise recently at the Chicago regional, but the only reason I played it was because it was a Knights of the Realm deck and I had 3x Bay of Ice and 3x Vanguard Lancer in the deck, and I would only play it once I had at least one of them out.

One time during a local tournament, in a 3 player melee, everyone played Take them by Surprise on the same turn, and I was the only one that had to discard my hand, because the other player that lost initiative already had no cards in hand, and I had about 8. It was pretty much awful. I dont think I've put it in any deck since then.

At ChiCon III: The Battle for the Bowl of Brown, Adam "The Shiek" DeWulf and I were both 2-0 and running decks built around the Eyrie , we each dropped Surprise as our first plot, and I lot the d20 roll-off for initiative. I did manage to make the game last 7 plots though.

On the drive back home Nate suggested that we just agree to a draw before the we had adjudicated initiative... not something that came to mind then. :/

Just curious. Were the eyrie and KOTHH ever playable at the same time? Or was KOTHH not in CCG.

Fieras said:

"Card designed by 2009 A Game of Thrones Joust Champion, Greg Atkinson."

Unless they sent the card back in time, I don't see how KOTHH would have been available in the CCG era