Riverland Brotherhood

There seems to be someone who has rate the deck with 1/5. In that case a comment would be nice.

I haven't played this deck yet. It needs some last-minute trimming (thus the 9 plot cards). I'm looking to trim about 5 characters, 1 or 2 locations, 3 or so events... any suggestions?

The deck is designed to win challenges, survive a Valar, and offset intrigue losses with some card-draw (e.g., Blackfish, Luwin, Harrenhall).

First of all it has 9 plots. Seven is the legal amount.

Additionally it seems your deck is too "thin". Though you have more than 60 cards, the effects of the cards you do have are diluted.

When doing a brotherhood out of a house, i'd like to focus to two major themes (one being brotherhood). So with this i'd pick either winter or tully but not both. you run the risk of having winter effects card in play with no way to make it winter or you play family honor duty plot and draw no house tully cards.

if i were doing a tully/brotherhood deck i'd cut:
winds of winter
mutual blackmail or regroup (you'd want higher income to rebound after a valar)
hound
luwin
catelyn stark (core), the other is way better surprise in challenges and sits in your hand (thus avoiding resets)
arya stark
peasant defenders
inn of kneeling man
borderland and last river (these are nice effects but too conditional and you typically won't draw them when you need it)
swap a great keep for searoad/roseroad (no reason to play in-house income when neutral will do and it boosts fant followers
with luwin out, cut ill tidings, winter reserves, one support of the kingdom
winter cache

this should get you to about 60. i'd test the setups and 1st plot draws about 10-12 times to see what you are drawing and what you can get out on setup. if you are playing three cards are less on setup, i'd starting swapping in cheaper cards.

another notion i have with brotherhood decks in general is since all your power is on characters and not a house card it is imperative to save as many characters as possible. using wildfire assault instead valar ensures that if you consolidate your power on three or less characters you can keep your winnings after a reset. your three surviving characters are generally better than your opponents. if you have berric that is a fourth survivor. you dont need to dupes before you reset like you do with valar and wildfire as 1 claim so you still deal damage that challenge phase.

thoughts

This deck got tooled on -- couldn't hardly get any Brotherhood characters in play! So yeah, time to trim back some of the other themes.

Wildfire would be a good fit for sure. Luwin and some events could go...
Family, Duty... isn't so useful in this deck; Mutual Blackmail was great going against Lannisters.

thanks for the comments!