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Fire and Blood - All Your Wildest Dreams Will Come True
May 08 2013 05:00 AM |
OKTarg
in Game of Thrones
Small Council Fire and Blood OKTarg Targaryen
Hello and welcome back to Fire and Blood. I’m first time guest writer Alquimista and I'm here to discuss the Dragonpit deck that made it 4th in the Battle for the Wall. Very special thanks to Buz Hannon for asking me to write this article.A bit of Story
The Dragonpit (TftRK) has been around since King's Landing cycle but it hasn't been a feasible strategy in the metagame. Why? Well, there are explanations for it. The 3 gold cost basically screwed setups with all the shadows you have to carry in order to be effective coupled with location control cards like
Condemned by the Council (AToT),Pyromancer's Apprentice (TBoBB) or Favorable Ground (QoD) made location-based decks very hard to play...until House of Dreams (ARotD) appeared.
Agenda Choice
House of Dreams (ARotD) not only help us by giving immunity to non-plot locations but also allow us to put it in play from the first turn. Thanks to that, we may choose to play only one copy gaining 2 card spots and 1 plot spot if you were playing Building Season (Core).
The malus of the agenda is really punishing so we have to be careful when building our deck. Choice matters when you are deckbuilding and more when your intial hand and setup is affected.
Characters should cost as cheap as possible in order to counter setup so we will go with the Refugee of the Plains (RoW)
as a restricted. Coupled with the Shadow Parasite (HtS) and other cards like Brown Ben Plumm (Core) or Gilly (RoW) will help to counter the malus of the agenda
Shadow Seer (FtC) is a must because it will help us to lower the gold curve if we manage to win intrigue challengues with her. Control location can be achieved via Warlock of Qarth (QoD) or Pyromancer's Apprentice (TBoBB) and Dragon Thief (AE) will help us to control some nasty attachments like Taste for Blood (PotS) or Burned and Pillaged (FtC)
Some expensive characters I would consider for deckbuilding a pit deck
- Ser Jorah Mormont (WLL) for a nice effect
- Maegi Crone (BtW) to reinforce draw
- Magister Illyrio (VM) for some more burn
- Khal Drogo (Core) A.K.A. The Jumper
- Daenerys Targaryen (GotC). That 2 STR in difference is really noticeable.Location
If Favorable Ground (QoD) is not played a lot in your meta, I would consider running 0 cost influence locations like Shivering Sea (KotS) instead of the Fiefdom sin order to improve setup. Also, consider running King's Landing (SaS) instead of Meraxes (TBC). The copies from King's Landing will help us feeding the dragonpit and will help us achive 5 card draw very easy with
If you are not using Dragon's thieft, I would consider to run Meereenese Brothel (BtW) because there are some attachments that will sure run your match if they stay in play too much time.
Events
Incinerate (VM) and Forever Burning (Core) are our mvps in the deck. A -1 is always useful and more when you can recycle it. Incinerate will help us to get rid of the most dangerous characters and, most important, it won't be so easilly cancelled.
Other options you could consider for event spots are Aegon's Legacy (SaS) (no cost burn death event) or other “defensive†events in order to maintain characters in the field like Ambush from the Plains (QoD) or To Be a Dragon (SB) (more playable thanks to King's Landing Coup (AToTT))
Attachments
The 3 copies of Flame-Kissed (Core) is a must. I don't think it's needs a lot of theorycrafting to explain why
Dragon Skull (CoS) can be a nice attachment to your burn rooster. You may have some problems against Martell but otherwise I would consider at least 2 copies.
In the next episode, I will try to explain how to play this deck against some of his common enemies. Stay toasty, my bros!
- bigfomlof, scantrell24, FioFioFio and 1 other like this
10 Comments
uniquesown non-uniques and I know she costs 4, but I enjoy how much of a difference she can make when it comes to decision making by the opponent. The best is when they forget what she does during a TftN turn. :-)One thing I like about her is that her ability is so Targaryen. [spoiler alert?] Renown on an INT icon is also pretty nice, and one day I'll use the other half of her passive, I swear!
That being said it was super fun to play!
About lyanna, the thing is that a 4-cost neutral character that most of the time will screw you rather than your opponent will be painful if you want to win challengues. You'll probably need to rework the deck with a huge gold curve in order to be able to pay everything and be sure to not carry a lot of non-uniques.
As OKTarg said, my intention is to bring some examples of deckbuilding with HoD because there are so many choices to make when you are deckbuilding as you saw in the article.