Maege's Direwolves (Stoke Blood Red Snow event 4-1)

Looks fun. I may have to try it out and see how I like it. I've been thinking about using a Stark no agenda with Maege and Rickon. This gives me a good place from which to start.

Yeah, Stark No Agenda is something I've wanted to try as well. I like the look of it, being a theme guy myself.

Shaggydog + Grey Wind can be brutal. I hate facing them.

Thanks for sharing. A couple of questions, since I am running a 90% similar deck (i also run Blackfish, Greatjon and To Be a Wolf rather than Wolf Dreams).

So the questions:
1) Since you need this final push to win power, why not 'The Red Wedding'. It's been amazing for me, and if you set it up a bit you can affect the board a lot.
2) Why not Fury of the Wolf/To be a Wolf?
3) If you are running Outwit, you will be needing some more book characters. The Ghost of high-heart is a good choice, or probably another Maester just to enable the 2-3rd turn Outwit.

Nice deck. I will also post mine for cross-reference.

Thanks for the feedback.

The thing I like about Wolf Dreams is it's a marshalling action. And not playing the Fury plot leaves me room for Search and Detain (a House of Dreams / Aegon's Hill deck can really hurt the Maege combo otherwise).

Greatjon Umber would be a great addition to this deck, but it's super tight on cards.

I think the Red Wedding is a good idea, and could be fantastic. But in the back of my mind, I can envisage the choice being between Meera Reed and a tooled up Bran Stark... I guess it doesn't matter if I just need the power though.

Wolf dreams is fantastic in this lineup, and I wouldn't think of replacing it. My idea would be to run both search events. Even if this means that you will need to cut one of the two kill events (probably leave No Quarter since it's easier to play) and the location destruction. Meera reed is enough to deal with problematic locations imho.

However I do understand why you prefer Search and Detain over Fury. I see both pros and cons in both ways of deckbuilding, but I would go with the more search and the great stats on Fury. The fact that the 'Be a wolf' also stands a character is amazing. Especially since you are running the outpost and a good spread of icons in your lineup.

As far as the Red Wedding is concerned, if you manage to play around it a bit, you will see that you can setup a situation that the opponent will have to target one of his cards and one of yours. It's not as rare as you can imagine, and if this happens, then it's devastating.

Certainly the aforementioned scenario is even more feasible if you play the shadow Arya rather than the HoBaW version.

I rarely see the Maege as a combo deck. It's a solid swiss-army deck that can answer anything. Probably you can get along an entire game without combo-ing Maege or even use her response twice in the game.

My real problem is how to make sure that Outwits stops Valar (or anything that hurts). I really thing that only Lurwin/At the gates is not enough to ensure that you lock down a good start. Any ideas or practical feedback from your games?

Thanks for the answers.

I pull off Outwit in maybe half of my games. Its effectiveness is dramatically reduced when my opponent is expecting it though...

I would consider putting more learned crests in the deck. Especially since Stark has so few save effects, a well timed Outwit is a game winner.

I'll experiment with To Be a Wolf too.

Probably the hardest match up for this deck is a mirror match against Stark No Agenda! It just gets brutal. And the Northern Cavalry Flanks and Damon are dramatically less effective.

Even if an opponent is expecting Outwit, most of the times he/she needs to stop a Rickon start with a Valar in the next turn. Can't think of any deck that can follow with a Lurwin,RotrF, and whatever else you bought on setup+turn.

Most of my games are won by Northern Cavalry, and to be honest, I've never tested the mirror match. Especially in this kind of deck that searches a lot, I have to say that it's all about who gets the best start.

As far as the learned crest is concerned, probably we will be needing something that can be fetched with Gates, so maybe this targ Maester that does something funky with the discard pile (name pending...), and certainly Old Nan can be good. Especially if we can make some room for Dissensions.

Will be testing a bit during the weekend, and I will come back with some results+list.

Edit: Maester's name is Archmaester Marwyn.

Play feedback:

I won 4 games in a row yesterday with a similar list. The difference was Fury of the Wolf as the resticted, Be the wolf in two copies, Greatjon-Blackfish-Old Nan-Robb-Cassell and Eddard (the deadly version). I skipped the Grey Wind. I also played the Shadow Arya.

My games were against Martell House, Lanni House, Targ KoThH and Stark Winter.

The 3 first opponents lost to Outwit (i mulliganned luckily to Rickon Starts) and flooded the board. 2nd turn Outwit was too much. I guess that if I replayed them, they would be prepared.

The stark winter was won by stalling to mid game and abusing Old Nan with Bran. Gave Direwolf to one of their chars, kneeled it with Bran (profit). It was a control battle, and I managed to tank winter and some mirror cards.

Bottomline: The Stark tutoring seems quite powerful, and I haven't identified any matchup that I can't battle. It's weaker if the opponent expects the whole pack of tricks, but there are too many in there.

Sometimes I felt that I was running out of cards if I decided not to Herrenhall-fetch, but I assume that I never got starved economically.

That's about it. Oh, and also run Old Nan

P.S: Style Points for Old Nan giving 'Lady' to Jhogo, before I blow him up with Red Wedding

Thanks for the clarification

I beat this deck, or a really siimilar version BARELY with the Martell KotHH no locations yesterday. It's a mean build, but could use yet more draw.

I don't think that there is any reliable card draw other than Harrenhall, Blackfish and Guard at riverun. Probably against KotHH decks, it just needs to skip all the mass removals, but I am not familiar with the Martell-no-location.

It's the usual resetting Martell KotHH but with 3 favorable ground and no non limited locations... And some city plots.

Neither of those are legal moves.

http://www.fantasyfl....4_High_res.pdf

Could someone explain why those moves are illegal? I couldn't find a section in the FAQ referencing it.
Thank you.

You can't give the direwolf trait and kneel an opponents character...you can give it the trait but you can't force them to kneel it as it's not in your control.

Makes sense you can't pay costs with cards you don't control. But could you give ally with old nan and drop dissension?

Makes sense you can't pay costs with cards you don't control. But could you give ally with old nan and drop dissension?

Yep, of course.

Cool tricks in this deck are getting Summer and Shaggydog on Bran Stark. It means he's potentially a strength 4 tricon, with stealth, deadly, and stands each time he wins a challenge. I've had him win 6 challenges in a single turn. Combine this with Winterfell Practice Yard to give him renown and melee, and he's a tank.

Is this right? Shaggydog stands himself after he wins a challenge, not attached character.

That is correct, only shaggy dog stands but does have the dire wolf trait.