Limbhack (A Game of Thrones, 2nd Ed:)

I think it should be fixed now.

Some thoughts:

Consider playing support of the people. Win by 5, play it, grab the Mander, draw 2 cards. Or get Streets of the Sisters. With Support of the people you can reduce the number of the mander, maybe even to 1.

I’d probably add 1 highgarden, another target for it, and a useful card.

Muster the Realm seems bad, you have only Wardens of the Reach for army cards. Winds of Winter seems much better than it in this deck.

Do you have too many limited cards? I find the Lannisport Moneylenders to overload on limited and also they can hurt your setups, because you cant play them with a limited location. Sometimes this prevents you from playing a good setup. Maybe the 1 cost lannister reducers would be better.

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Its the same in Game of Thrones.
I played some early on on OCTGN with friends over skype, and like half our games would be over on turn 2 with one player getting blown out and their characters killed. So some of them decided it wasnt very good.

However, when I go to LCG nights and play other experienced people now, it almost never happens. People have decently constructed decks that result in them setting up several characters and usually no one gets blown out right away.

Unfortunately, it takes some experience to figure out how to build a deck to get to this point, so that you arent having lots of bad setups.

There’s always the classic Euron on setup against Marched to the Wall ragequit :wink:

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This is crucial. Having only played one Creature combat game (LotR) I realized that deckbuilding for it is different from Thrones. I would try an event heavy deck and just get bad setups fairly regularly or having big cost characters so I was only setting up two cards. It took me a bit to understand how deckbuilding and the cost curve for Thrones works.

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This is the newest addition I’m monitoring–it’s likely it will revert to Sneak Attack, but in my games I’ve always managed to pull off a decent turn with Muster the Realm, I usually manage to draw the Wardens.

I haven’t had any trouble yet with Limited overload, but will keep my eye on it. The Moneylenders help ensure that i’m always bolstering my econ every turn. Paxter is really nice as well, as you can frequently add two gold to your income on the turn when you play him, seeing as he’s not Limited.

Event space is really limited, especially after I realized how bonkers Growing Strong is and quickly went to x3. I could cut the Noble Lineage but that would hurt setup. Maybe -1 Mander.

One really important note for newcomers is that setting up one character in Thrones is awful and more or less instantly loses the game if the opponent has Marched to the Wall in their deck. Setting up two characters is almost as bad, especially if both are expensive. I’ve seen people be really happy with their setups that have one huge guy (all 3 Tywins, Bodyguard, Roseroad) or two powerful guys (Asha with Throwing Axe, duped Sansa), only to lose in the first turn or two thanks to Marched + military challenges (and then rage because they had Such A Good Start!).

I just start by explaining that setting up only one character will almost always lose the game so that people don’t have to learn it the hard way, as that’s quite a rough way to lose one of your first games.

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Aye. The designers put a ton of really mean cards in this game :smile: one of the first things you need to learn in Thrones is when to expect them and how to play around them. I do feel kinda bad winning at this game sometimes against the newer guys.

Hoping to ramp up the quality of deckbuilding and play at the local shop so we can start getting some tense and interesting games in.

No more posts about doomtown please. I shouldnt have to read entire discussions about a game I despise in a thread specifically named AGOT. I ve forgotten half things that were being talked about before posts about Cowboys started popping up.

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Focus on Agot please and not Doomtown or other posts :wink:

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So now that the post-release dust has settled, have the good community sites become established yet? I feel like I’m getting dumber from reading cardgamedb and Facebook groups.

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Very few card game forums are ever good at the cardgame, and most of them get worse over time. One of the reasons I like stimhack is that it seems to be a rare exception to this. (seriously, read a mtg forum, it’s usually awful).

Not sure if agot will get a solid community site beyond a nice local one, you can never tell.

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You just have to filter out the bad posts. A lot of really solid AGoT players post on both of the sites in question.

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So what are you all testing for SC season. I’m working on a Greyjoy fealty power rush deck. So far it feels strong.

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Sticking with Night’s Watch/Banner of the Wolf, because I know how to play it and I don’t have time to keep testing decks for Netrunner, Doomtown and this.

I appreciate this is unhelpful.

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Got a list? This is my secondary list. Bara fealty is my main. Feels unfair.

Yeah it’s hardcore. Even Stark/Greyjoy with the stealthy sneak attack military plan. For the north!!

Interestingly this military rush idea has an epic good Bara fealty matchup @spags. I used to feel oppressed by it, but with the right tools you can often just kill Mel and Stannis before they can do anything.

I can’t figure out how to get a nice forum export from thronesdb because I’m a scrub, but it’s here.

I take no credit/blame for it, as I stole it wholesale from somewhere I can’t remember (probably Throne Runner on YouTube or somewhere else in the cardgamedb NW thread?) and switched out 2xJon Snow for 2xWill because I was never happy to see Jon Snerrrrr in hand and for a bit more Stealth protection.

Looking at it, I think there could be space for Old Bear - the 3rd Meager Contribution can go, the second Longclaw was on the chopping board before but probably gets a bit better with Will in the deck. I’m not 100% happy with the plot deck either, but we’re back to tinkering time.

Standard “this is NPE bullshit!” stuff. Benjen and Sansa Stark MVPs, defend The Wall, drink opponent’s tears if they don’t know how to counter the fact that you put them on a clock, etc etc. No idea how it’s placed in the current meta, but I enjoy playing it and I’m not looking to tear up multiple Store Championships or anything anyway.

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Looks very similar to mine. I’ll have to look for differences.

There are some quality articles being posted at http://whitebookpodcast.com , as well as multi-national player/event finder, link to a Discord chat, and I think a new forum as well. Also, check out http://theironlink.blogspot.com for player-fed in-depth matchup analysis.

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