(Note: This is meant for JOUST)

So I am moderetly experienced with GoT but I wanted to try my hand at making a new style of deck (or maybe it's just new to me). I wanted to use the Power gain from The White Book Agenda, low initiative/high claim plots, and the unpredictable destruction of Targ Burn. The Burn will make it hard for my opponent to judge how much to commit. However, if he over-commits then he gets hurt by claim 2 counter-attack (and possibly lose valuable characters to Sun Stroke). So this all sounds good in theory to me, the problem is execution.

So the two issues I'm running into are cost of Kingsguard and my inability to save them. The Kingsguard are expensive and I don't have a lot of ways to reduce their costs. If anyone has suggestions for that please let me know. Second, my only options for saving them are Retreat and Narrow Escape. I'm leaning towards Narrow Escape because it will help me much more if my opponent Valars (or just goes on a tear), and making him discard his deck will be much more destructive in his attempt at a comeback.

Finally, does anyone have suggestions on "must haves" or "avoids?" Once I get some feedback I'll be sure to post up the sample deck for further critiqueing, thank you.

Try running a KG-lite deck with just the bare minimum of KG you can get away with (dupes if necessary) since most KG are over-priced and missing I icons; its a good thing Targ has a plethora of cheap guys with any icon combination you need. There are an increasing number of reducers for neutrals at this point, Streets of Sisters/Silk/Steel, River Row, Flea Bottom and some standard +1 Gold locations should have your bases covered, 3x Summer Sea too for the Targ guys. You may run into a problem with draw since Targ draw is a bit lacking w/o TMP or Summer or Shadows, so make sure you have a reliable draw engine; Val might be a good idea if you don't go with NE.

If you plan on using Gerold Hightower then you might as well throw in 1x Viserys (Voltron) to go with your Sunstrokes and Aegons Blade. Unburnt helps him and helps your lack of saves problem too.