For those that are interested, I thought I would post my deck here with some thoughts behind it before I add the draft and state of the game thoughts later.
http://tzumainn.com/agot/decks/deck.php?current_deck_id=13184
ChiCon III 7th Place – Lannister
—– Plots (7) avg income: 4.1 —–
Conventions of War x1 Five Kings Edition U222
Wildfire Assault x1 Five Kings Edition F241
Prove One’s Worth x1 A House of Talons R138
Bounty of the Realm x1 Iron Throne Edition R223
Take Them By Surprise x1 Iron Throne Edition R231
The Gathering Storm x1 Iron Throne Edition F241
The Sack of Winterfell x1 Winter Premium Starter G49
—– Characters (36) avg cost: 2.4 —–
* Cersei Lannister x1 Five Kings Edition U31
* Joffrey Baratheon x1 Five Kings Edition U32
* Ser Jaime Lannister x1 Five Kings Edition U35
* The Hound x1 Five Kings Edition R36
Golden Tooth Guard x3 Five Kings Edition C40
Lannisport Weaponsmith x3 Five Kings Edition C41
* Tywin Lannister x3 A House of Thorns R10
* Knight of Flowers x1 A House of Thorns U61
* The Queen of Thorns x1 A House of Thorns R64
* The Bastard of Bolton x1 A House of Thorns R69
* Ser Stafford Lannister x1 Iron Throne Edition R30
Doubting Septa x3 Iron Throne Edition U35
* Ser Arys Oakheart x1 Iron Throne Edition R132
* Myrcella Lannister x1 Iron Throne Legacy Pack F9
* Ser Jacelyn Bywater x1 A Song of Twilight R16
Enemy Informer x3 Winter Edition C30
Expendable Ally x3 Winter Edition C31
Ser Amory’s Poachers x3 Winter Edition U35
* Lord of Bones x1 Winter Edition U136
Personal Guard x3 Winter Promotion P5
—– Locations (15) avg cost: 0.4 —–
* Castamere x1 Five Kings Edition U47
* Queen Cersei’s Chambers x1 Iron Throne Edition U42
Sunset Sea x3 Iron Throne Edition U144
* The Iron Throne x1 Iron Throne Edition R167
The Roseroad x3 Iron Throne Edition C171
Marbrand Estates x3 Iron Throne Legacy Pack F10
Corrupt Treasury x3 Winter Edition C39
—– Attachments (7) avg cost: 1.1 —–
Seal of the Hand x3 Iron Throne Edition R25
Frozen Solid x2 Winter Edition U2
Tywin’s Protege x2 Winter Edition R23
—– Events (17) —–
Put to the Question x2 A House of Thorns R124
You’ve Killed the Wrong Dwarf x3 Iron Throne Edition U220
Paper Shield x2 Iron Throne Legacy Pack F45
Azor Ahai Born Again x3 A Song of Night C111
From Winter’s Touch Returned x2 A Song of Night C117
Massing at Twilight x3 A Song of Twilight C127
Queen Cersei’s Command x2 A Song of Twilight C129
The original concept here was obviously enough to abuse AHoTh Tywin– everyone and their uncle is doing it these days. Obviously many of the cards (PTTQ, Paper Shield, From Winter’s Touch Returned, Queen of Thorns) are directed towards keeping the big man in play once he’s hit the board. To compliment this is a fairly standard assortment of kneel from Personal Guards to You’ve Killed the Wrong Dwarf. Also a few cards were chosen for general utility such as the strong suggestion from Dobbler many months ago now to run Frozen Solid out of house, a decision that I have yet to regret. Also, prior to GenCon, Staton convinced me that Azor Ahai Born Again was a great extra finisher card once I had the lock down. Originally to compliment those themes, I had the deck packed with all the character ability immunity I could in order to make Tywin as one sided of an effect as I could. Unfortunately, the rotation of Valyrian block left me hurting on that front- only Ser Jacelyn Bywater and the Lord of Bones remain (FFG, bring some character ability immunity back for Lannister. It was a nice theme for them) As I contemplated what to replace that theme with, it occurred to me that the faster I was able to make this deck, the better. At that point, I decided that three AABA would be a certainty since they generally enable 6 power or so in a single turn, once I have some of the screws on. Also, I loaded the deck out with most all of the in house Lannister renown that I could find, but it still seemed like something was lacking… then it struck me! Lannister has a huge number of cheap unique characters, and not so very long ago, the game was graced with a way to grant renown to each of them for a turn. Thus, I added Prove One’s Worth and the true scheme of the deck was born. Feign a Tywin lock as best I can (sometimes to the point of actually establishing it, but really to focus on rushing out the victory at a speed that Lannister is not known for. For a real example of how beautifully this can work (and the only time it has worked this well) check out the report of my game against Mathlete.
Filed under: A Game of Thrones
