Hey all,

I just thought of a cool tournament idea and was considering organizing an online tournament of this format, but wanted your inputs first. Basically, my idea is that in the books, a rather significant portion of the fighting is in-fighting within houses: Bolton-Stark, the Brothers Baratheon, all of the insanity in the Targaryen parts, kingsmoots, and even intra-Night's Watch/Wildling fighting. So my idea was this: Have seven separate tournaments, one for each house (including neutral, who is ruled to be the only ones allowed to use NW or Wildlings, but have access to the three agendas of each, if they want, but not more than three). The winners of those tournaments take their exact decks and then play them in another tournament that includes all houses. If you win more than one tournament, it goes to the next person in line who did the best that is not already in the final tournament.

I suspect something like this may have been played in the past, but can't seem to find anything online about it. Does it make sense? Does it sound like it would be fun? I know a lot of people find, for example, Stark-Stark to be a really boring match-up, but the idea is that while the initial tournaments might be somewhat boring, at least we'll possibly see some unique builds designed to beat their own houses badly and not others, and yet they will still have to play in the final tournament to decide which deck really was the "best", or which house was! Also a possibility is having a side-deck of perhaps 10 cards that you're allowed to switch before the final tournament, but only after all of the tournament with your initial deck has been played and won. This gives the final tournament a bit more flavor and less likely to be a route by rush-y builds, which I think are favored in this format (but could be totally wrong).

What do you think?

I support this completely, and anything that allows for different deck building ideas for tournaments. my own idea being a Alliance Agenda tourney. . . .basically because i really wanna play Stark/ Targaryen

but alas. . . i do not play online

I like the idea of the alliance tournament.

However, I don't like the house tourney idea for 2 reasons.

1. Tons of mirror matches which arent really fun.

2. Beating out a bunch of decks that are the same house as you is no real indication of how well you'd do against other houses. AKA.. To win the Lanny tournament, you'd run a ton of traitors that would be useless in the bigger tournament of 7.

I also don´t play online, at least not regular.

But for a tournament with a pecial thematic i would suggest that you name 1-5 cards and each player has to have at least x copies of it in his or her deck. FFG had at least one such sponsored tournament in the past that i could recall. I thinhk it was called "Ghost of Harrenhal" or something like that, every player had to build a deck around Harrenhal, Ghost of Harrenhal and i think Arya.

Fieras said:

In re: 1) I mentioned this already, and you're probably right. In re: 2), I also mentioned this; hence the side-deck of 10 cards that you can switch in for the vs other houses.

Alliance tournament *does* sound cool, too.

targstarkburn

the thing about the Alliance Agenda is it really opens up some very cool options for deckbuilding, but the downside is so drastic that a decent deck with 2 extra gold a turn or extra draw is going to slap it around. (i know there was a very well built alliance deck at the gencon joust)

so if there is a tournament in which everyone is playing Alliance it really allows us to be creative. and not worry about the advantage your giving your opponents.