greyjoy - black sails

what about Naval Escort (ASitD)

From my experience kingsmoot hasn't been worth it. It works well for game closer, but if I cannot close the game with it then I usually want to search for something else (1 card that you want is usually better than 2 random). There is also the issue that it forces me to count more for the dominance and leave 2 ironborn standing (not all times possible especially with all the naval jumping). Drinking the sea also seems really marginal, even when going black sails I would avoid on running too situational cards. I would also add some streets for better setups and more resources as you are running pretty expensive stuff here.
Also depending on your meta you might want to take a look at manning the city walls instead of at the gates, if people are not running agendas those important fleets can be pain to pay for normally.

champin : i simply don't care for escort outside of pure raiders and even there i'm iffy about it,especially now with the new naval mechanic.

ire : you are right on money on all you said.after playtesting i made the following :

-fear of winter,at the gates +retaliation/manning,taken by surprise
-1x iron fleet captain,1x muremure +2kingsmoot hopeful
-1x capture cog,1x iron cliffs,scouting vessel +bloody keep,1x LIV,lane,sisters,steel,kingdom of shadows
-1x captain of the iron fleet,1x support of harlaw,outfitted for war +1x milk of the poppy
-3x kingsmoot,1x seasick +dissension,fingerdance,nightmares

it seems manning is better here so i actually have no restricted...i will probably replace taken by surpise with fury once i get it but what until then?

Retaliation is restricted if you're using that. I'm not sure since you included it with a slash.

I wouldn't use bay of ice as 3 of your plots are fairly low initiative. 0, 2, 3. Retaliation does help but again I don't know if you're running that. This is mainly because it remains inconsistent against kothh though. If your meta has little or no kothh you may should keep it.

Naval escort is meh by itself but incredible in combination with grief and 1 or 2 captured cogs. You're looking at adding 9 or even 16 str for the round, repeatable, and unaffected by valar (you have so many saves that you should almost certainly be able to keep at least 1 char on the board through valar). Also pretty strong against targ since they're fond of waiting til mid-challenge to play their incinerate or w/e.

You may want a little bit of attachment control. Only 1 nighttime raid is very little considering it's a coin flip as to whether or not you can search for it out of the hold. Beric decks and stuff like taste for blood are going to be a pain if you are left high and dry for attachment control. However, attachments may be uncommon in your meta, I dunno.

Kingdom of shadows seems out of place. Considering you have no shadows cards you could end up being forced to stand opponents' chars with it.

I'm of the opinion that Victarion's Reavers is worth an include if you have manning the walls. While it's a life saver if you run up against no agenda it also has a chance to be a dead 1 gold plot with only 3 cards in your deck that are eligible for it. The reavers are pretty much the best abuser of the effect for greyjoy imo.

i 'm using retaliation for now (manning as you said is pretty narrow) until i get fury when we get the reprints.

bay of ice adds up with cogs to respectable numbers so winning initiative is rather easy.if i play with kothh i use support of the kingdom to steal the red keep or fiefdoms in order to stay ahead.

i think i'll add 1-2 escorts when going on regionals cause i assume targ will be 25-30% of the field at least.

with all the claim raising i dont fear beric.if anything there is teched milk of the poppy and nightmares for problem cards like him.

kingdom of shadows is unlimited gold,great for setup,still good later on.i may cut one for another reducer,probably river row.

reavers are not needed anymore cause HOD is dropping with the restriction of refuggees.which effect do reavers abuse anyway?i didnt understand that.thanks to everyone for your thoughts on this!