gj - old way first try

I have played a similar deck for quite a few games. What ended up wrecking me was Fleeing to the Wall and Attack from the Sea.

I found some of those characters useless because there is not a lot of income on the river plot cards. I used a lot of cheap characters like Distinguished Boatswain, etc for quick resets and to just build my ships up.

I only used 2x Paper Shield, 2x Finger Dance and 2x Flood Waters. I have never seen a need to use any more. Also, look at running an Iron Lore or 2.

I use Pulled from the Rhone instead of Oxcross, but other than that, my plots are the same.

What is devastating is getting your Maiden's Bane blanked, nullified, stolen, etc. That card and the Naval Escorts are HUGE to making an opponent not want to attack or do a lot of math! I have found one way to try to thwart the Maiden's Bane onslaught, is to try to use Outfitted for War.

I also don't see any Iron Mines. It helps with the setup for having more locations.

I am still tweaking this deck constantly and have just put Dagmar in for dominance.

You need 3x Refurbished Hulks in a big way.

I'm toying with putting Dagger Lake Galleys in for the extra "unknown" factor and because I don't like Iron Fleet Scouts. I know they are a great 1 cost ship, BUT with the rivers, I never seem to have any gold laying around to fully take advantage of the card.

You shouldn't need the Sunset Seas as you won't have much of an issue getting cards out. I would try to avoid even most 3 gold cards for more ships. I've been able to survive a Fleeing and an Attack from the Sea BARELY with a ton of ships, even though more than half were wiped out.

You should be able to almost always be able to empty your hand on setup and draw into a ton of more good stuff. If you can get a refugee and a boatswain out on setup, then just keep churning out boats. You should try to get 2 boats out per turn.

Make the opponent the first player and go second. You might want to let some things just go unopposed while building your ships.

Hold Newly Made Lord until your opponent drops a Ghaston Grey, Iron Throne, or any other equally annoying location.

I'm not an expert on this and am changing it all the time. It's not a fast deck, but very annoying to opponents who do not have the plots I mentioned. A Valar does almost nothing since you don't rely on many characters and are fast at resetting. You may need to Valar on turn 2-3 if your ships aren't coming quickly enough.

I credit learning this deck to RemkoLooten who helped me ENORMOUSLY with this type deck and how to play it. I don't know if it's tourney worthy since it can be wrecked with 1-2 cards off the top of my head, but it is fun as hell, if anything just to see your opponent get pissed at all the math! 

i dont play boatswains cause of the abundance of shadows nowdays.

i play more events cause the deck sets up 4-6 and you have the draw from the rivers so they dont clog.

oxcross is there for to be a kraken.

refurbished is good but i have only 6 1-cost and 8-cost ships.i dont want to play 6 limited so maybe i swap in a 3rd instead of the 3rd gatehouse.

i dont like scouts too and i didnt put then in,they seem rredundant.

i dont like iron mines here,i cant think of anyone i want to save beyond alanys.it will be either them or the sunset seas (i dont want many locations leaving play) and since rivers are low on gold i chose the seas.

i've played a couple of matches and the deck is really good.as you said if you play location hate or blank effects you are screwed.it overcame my kothh burn easily cause i got favorable ground canceled twice and it steamrolled my lanni no agenda.i think i really have to tech against seeing my struggle in those 2 games,although i didnt have any answers except 2 favorable ground in burn and 2 condemned by the counsil in the other.

I can see where you are coming from.

Did you get a chance to think about Outfitted for War for your LMBs?

What do you think about the Dagger Lake Galleys? (I haven't added those yet, but am considering it.)

I still like the Boatswains, especially if you can get them out first turn. That's where they seem the most helpful as well as quick restarts at times. They help me empty my hand on setup and hammer just about anything thrown down with having to resolve TOW with a fast first attack.

The other thing I didn't mentioned is getting screwed with Motley, Milk and Bowl of Brown. Those damn cards keep coming up ALL the damn time!

Overall, I like some of your tweaks and will look at incorporating a couple to see how they flow.

i never play attachments.they are a liability.galleys seem good on paper but i think i actually have plenty navals already,wouldnt hurt to try it though.

after a couple more games i have come to the conclusion that this is probably the best deck if no one is playing stuff for it in a big tour,but it wouldnt happen probably,cause stuff that stops this hinder bloodthirst too

That's great that it is working. I think it's really fun.

I don't like attachments either, thus I only use one, but I might need to look at doing something else.

Really look back at perhaps trying to fit an Iron Lore or 2 in there. It has really saved my butt when people are relentlessly coming for my LMBs or Escorts.

Iv'e even thrown in an Aeron's chambers in case of the reset as well, so I don't feel so crushed if I have to give up a gatehouse or two. Plus it gives me at least one influence if I need to use it to cancel someone's event.

Anyway, I'm always tweaking, so keep at it and let me know what you come up with as well! Good Luck!