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Martell Melee Maester Rush (1st Place, Hockley Melee Regional)
Submitted
JCWamma
, Sep 02 2013 09:48 AM | Last updated Sep 03 2013 04:42 AM
Martell Melee
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| Submitted by: | JCWamma |
| Submitted: | Sep 02 2013 09:48 AM |
| Views: | 5409 |
| Last updated: | Sep 03 2013 04:42 AM |
| Category: | Martell |
| Deck Name: | Martell Melee Maester Rush (1st Place, Hockley Melee Regional) |
| Deck Contents: | Total Cards (60) House (1) House Martell (Core) x1 Agenda (0) Plot (7) To the Spears! (PotS) x1 Schemes of the Scholar (HtS) x1 Outwit (TIoR) x1 Valar Morghulis (Core) x1 Summoning Season (Core) x1 Counting Favors (Core) x1 Winter Festival (WotN) x1 Character (35) Orphan of the Greenblood (PotS) x3 Refugee of the Citadel (RoW) x3 Walder Frey (ACoS) x1 Oldtown Scholar (FtC) x3 Flea Bottom Scavenger (AToT) x3 Maester Myles (AHM) x1 Maester of War (TWot5K) x3 Maester of Lemonwood (BtW) x1 Myrcella Lannister (ODG) x1 Maester of the Sun (ASoS) x3 Ser Gerris Drinkwater (CD) x1 Harmen Uller (PotS) x1 Quentyn Martell (TGF) x1 Ser Archibald Yronwood (CD) x1 Ser Arys Oakheart (PotS) x1 Ser Cletus Yronwood (TCC) x1 Informed Acolyte (TIoR) x2 Leyton Hightower (GotC) x2 The Conclave (CbtC) x3 Location (14) Noyne (THoBaW) x1 Palace Fountains (PotS) x2 River Row (QoD) x1 Shadowblack Lane (Core) x1 Street of Silk (LotR) x1 Street of Sisters (Core) x1 Street of Steel (Core) x1 Summer Sea (Core) x3 Water Garden (PotS) x3 Attachment (3) Apprentice Collar (GotC) x3 Event (8) Citadel Law (MotA) x3 Citadel Politics (HtS) x3 We Light the Way (MotA) x2 Setup a lot of weenies, have a Conclave in hand, trade Summoning Seasons for the other two then flip into To the Spears and win. |
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| Other Information | Income on Plot Cards: 3, 3, 4, 2, 4, 3, 4 Average Plot Income: 3.286 Number of deck cards providing income: 3 Average deck cards income: 1.000 Number of cards providing influence: 3 |
22 Comments
It is, but it was my only restricted - Orphan and Refugee aren't restricted in Melee.
Looking to make a similar deck (copying this basically) anything you'd change? Or did everything flow smoothly. I know you got 1st, but just wondering if anything was expendable...
why don't you use Citadel Custom over Citadel Politics?
Citadel Politics is limited to 1 x phase…
I went with Politics over Custom simply because the former synergised better with Schemes of the Scholar, and I didn't want to include too many events in the deck to ensure I got the best setups I could do. If you feel comfortable running more events then Custom is an easy include, for sure.
I'll think a mix of the two (politics and custom) to maintain the same number of events.
Hope to read the report soon (sorry for bad english... i'm italian!)
i had little practice with this deck.
I went 3-0 in the prelimins and was 2nd overall.
at the top 16 table when i grabbed a conclave for the summoning season, all three players instantly recognized the deck and dismantled me,
very good deck!!
Seems like you are unlikely to win initiative frequently, so most of the time won't he just participating in a challenge between two of your opponents?
Why is that helpful?
Plot deck
- Valar Morghulis
+ Game of Thrones
Draw deck
-1 Palace fountains
- 1 Citadel Politics
- 2 We Light the Way
- 1 Walder Frey
- 1 Noyne
-1 Leyton Hightower
+1 Dornish Paramour
+1 Arianne Martell (Kingsguard)
+1 Ellaria Sand (Princes of the Sun)
+1 The Red Viper (A poisoned spear)
+1 Informed Acolyte
+2 He Calls it Thinking
He was in there for a couple of fairly flimsy reasons - firstly, because he's a 0 cost claimsoak body that's great for setup, secondly, he's just generally hilarious in Melee, and thirdly if a Red Wedding happens early he can be a very helpful body to have if someone wants to kill a Cersei or Mel, because he's an unthreatening Lord
Now that To the Spears is restricted Melee would you keep that or the Conclave?
Conclave, there are other ways to get them not kneeling (Game of Thrones, Schemes of the Scholar, maybe even We Light the Way), so the plot is less valuable - it just means you're less likely to get the military challenge, but that was least-important anyway.
JC, as amazing as melee Myrcella is, do you think its worth focusing on GoT as your flip-to plot, and using the other Myrcella to give one of your renown knights an eyeball? Since that would give you Gerris, either Archibald or Cletus, and three conclaves on your burst turn.
Given that, do you think it's possible to ease the new Elia into this, or do you think its unlikely to have fewer characters than an opponent with this particular deck in Melee?
The first paragraph makes absolute sense to me. Second one, in my experience this deck floods characters like nobody's business so it could be tough to reliably trigger, but if your meta has lots of characters on melee tables I'd consider it for sure.