Angle Charger (Top 32, Stahleck 2013 Joust)

Link to tourney report here.

For somebody wanting to do comparative analysis on what has evolved over the years, I seem to have the original deck published on Agotcards here.

Awesome deck! I was wondering why Threat and not Negotiations?

Awesome deck! I was wondering why Threat and not Negotiations?

Thanks!

With Negotiations, the prospect of refilling the opponent's hand as well didn't appeal to me. A lot of people know Negotiations exists and will deliberately leave one or two cards in their hand, so Negotiations provides them at least as much card advantage as it provides me a lot of the time. This deck doesn't particularly mind discarding 3 cards at random due to Mel's Scheme, Dale, the Entourages and Brightwater Keep, so if I could ditch cards from my hand and draw another three, while simultaneously emptying my opponent's hand and not letting them draw any, that was a positive for me. Additionally, with The Laughing Storm, me gaining a net three cards while simultaneously making my opponent gain no new cards AND draw-capping them in the plot phase was very useful. With draw so much easier in the current meta between Lannister being prevalent and the shadows Jaime, any effect saying "you can't draw extra cards this turn" is very powerful I find. Finally, while Negotiations does have 2 claim, without Threat I didn't have any plot over 4 initiative, and sometimes that little bit extra can help a lot.

Cool. Thanks for the response.

I was also wondering if you considered increasing Dale Seaworth to a 2 or 3x? Dale works so well with Into the Breach, Fiery kiss etc.

Increasing Dale is definitely not a bad idea. I went back and forth between 1 or 2 copies myself. In the end I went for 1 just for reasons of space, but if you can find something to cut (or don't mind being even further from 60 than I was) then adding a second copy will serve you well.