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2C1C- Episode 159

May 08 2014 04:00 AM | Kennon in Game of Thrones

2C1C 2 Champs and a Chump Podcast Kennon

Episode 159- Cast: Will plus guest hosts Brett and Dan. This week is all about draft. What is it and how do you make the most of it? Music: Josh Woodward, Celestial Aeon Project, and Manuel Gertrudix

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12 Comments

Crevic

May 09 2014 08:16 AM

We had a draft tournament a few weeks ago and I drafted a pretty disgusting single house Martell deck. Off the top of my head, it had The Red Viper, Arienne, Oakheart, three Orphans, three Dornish Paramours, Burning on the Sand, the Vipers Bannermen, Marched to the Wall, and To the Spears. It went undefeated.

ScionMattly

May 09 2014 02:44 PM

I liked the podcast focusing on Draft a lot - I'm eager actually to maybe try doing a draft occasionally among my AGOT friends.

While you're taking show suggestion, I would really, really like to see a show in this same style, focusing on the Melee aspects of play, especially in card strength, deck building thoughts, maybe a comparison of house and decks, and how titles play into everything.

I play Melee almost exclusively due to the way our group is set up, but non-competitively, and I think a show like that would really be interesting.

awritt

May 09 2014 06:36 PM

I found it really interesting you thought Targ was strongest, I find it the 2nd weakest house in the pool, and part of that driving force are attachments are more abundant in this environment (as was mentioned). I have Martell and Lanni as the top two houses in my experience.

mnBroncos

May 09 2014 08:31 PM

yes but a common card for targ is dragon theif in my stark/targ deck drafted i had 6 of them. attachments were not a problem. I have only done one draft (excited for the days of ice and fire draft) but it seemed like every house was pretty balanced.

SeanBecker

May 09 2014 09:44 PM

I have a feeling that every draft is going to be different because so much of it is going to be what the table is playing. In Chicago, everyone was going for Lanni and Martell that so many good Stark (and Greyjoy for that matter) fell to the side. So it really depends. I wish I could make it to Days this year. If there is a draft at Gen-Con, it will be crazy.

Crevic

May 10 2014 12:13 AM

Any kind of take control effect is huge in draft. I have won games with Seductive Promise.

Kennon

May 10 2014 05:56 PM

There are quite a few attachments in the pool, but I think the majority of the ones that will see play (Enslaved, Milk of the Poppy, Frozen Solid) are all negative attachments that you'll see turn up on your own cards rather than protecting your opponents'. A handful of the positive attachments like Bodyguard will see play, but I would almost always rather have another body in my deck than something like Rusted Sword in draft.

Sokhar

May 10 2014 06:57 PM

I agree with Crevic that take control effects are potent. In a similar vein though, cancel also becomes very potent. I ran a mostly Targ deck in a draft that allied to Greyjoy on the basis of like 6 cards, which included 2 copies of Seasick. Not a lot of influence floating around on the table aside from seas, and cancelling my opponent's Seductive Promise won me a game.

It was just unfortunate that in the final round my mulligan'd hand included 5 Gold Road/Searoads, and a Sea Raiders that lost the game for me before we even revealed our flops. :-(

vszeus

May 11 2014 10:32 AM

I love draft (I have yet to do it for thrones sadly), this episode made my day! Hopefully it will inspire my local crew to draft with me !

Kennon

May 13 2014 04:44 AM

You know, I didn't really bring it up on the show, but what house would people say is the worst in this draft pool?

I'd personally hazard a guess at Baratheon, because their primary theme (power rush) becomes much weaker the less redundancy you have, and it's quite hard to have much when drafting.