I am on the facebook group under Jeremiah Duggan. You chat with me pretty regularly

I will be there and am hoping several other Iowa guys are going too. In the meantime I need to play some octgn

Top 8! Quarterfinals - goshdarnstud - Lanni - Kingsguard Most of this round is already in his report so I am not going to go on too much about it. I spend most of the first 10 turns trying to draw an Iron Mines so I could Valar in a way that left me on top. I found 2 of them in the last 10 cards of my deck. Sweet. The other cool plays of the round include using Ours for the Taking on his Lions Gate to make his Beric a raven, only to lose the challenge. I did the math in my head over and over on this and still lost. I think we forgot to discard a power off Beric which gave the unaccounted for +1 str but at this point, who the heck knows. Semi-Finals - Nickler - GJ - Maester's Path Again a game covered in someone else's report. I saw the black raven in my opening hand and decided to keep based off that. I play Take them by Surprise and seeing Nick's Time for Ravens I choose him to go first. He gets white ravens and makes it winter followed by a Wintertime Marauder, Wendmyr, and some chaff. I play my black raven and just kinda win. This is the worst match up in the entire room for me and I win this game maybe 20% of the time. Hooray for good fortune Finals - Eric - Lanni - Maester's Path It's unfortunate that I can't save some of that good fortune for this round. I lead with a 6 card set up but I just cannot get out from under the thumb of Maester Luwin and his Copper link. My locations become ravens and go away while Eric milks the card advantage machine that is Luwin. In the end, the combination of shadows Tyrion (who always got renown) and Luwin shuts me down. I'm not sure where I lost this game other then the fact that I continued to draw Skinchangers when I really needed something less clunky. In the end I figure if I don't know what happened, its likely that I just got outplayed. Oh well, thems the beats. Props - Nate French - This guy lets me borrow a deck even though I'm constantly an ******* about things. I suppose I'll have to work on that Clu - An amazing friend and a more amazing person. I wouldn't play this game if not for him Staton/Katie - Trolling one is fun and chatting AGoT with the other is almost as fun.

Round 3 - The Shiek - Martell Brotherhood Adam is the midwest "Martell Endboss" and I lose to him more often then I win. At least until this game. Adam has a turn 1 Beric with a dupe but I start strong with a gold tooth mines and guys who stealth. I don't remember a lot about this game other then he sees very little card draw and I prioritize intrigue challenges. I win get a full set of unopposed challenges with Rise as my plot and close the game out relatively quickly. 19-2 Round 4- Ben - GJ - Kings of Winter This game is a total ball buster. Its winter right off the bat with Wintertime Marauders and Support of Harlaw tearing my face off. On top of that he has River Blockade and shuts off my Iron Mines. He whittles me down to a point where I have no non-unique cards anymore. There is a hole in his plan though. The intrigue challenge seems ignored entirely. I bide my time winning int and power challenges to stay in the game until I can finally manage to deal with the marauders. After that I can play a little freely since I have 12 cards in hand to his 0. Don't rememeber the final power count here. Round 5 - Eric - Lanni - Maesters Path Eric and I take an ID and go eat. To be continued...

A quick introduction to some of the new players on the board. I started playing Thrones during Winter block and quit when the game transitioned to the LCG format. The game has moved back into a diverse enough enviroment that I feel I would enjoy playing again, so I decided to play a couple regionals this year so I could travel and hang out with some of the old school guys. The problem here is twofold. 1) I don't own cards AND 2) I don't really know what most of the cards do. Lucky for me I know Clu. He gave me free reign over his card collection to build whatever I wanted. So what did I do? I borrowed a deck from Nate. Turns out he is a pretty good deckbuilder Round 1 - Dany - Targ - Dragons As the round is starting Dany and I chat casually and she mentions that she is a magic player just getting started in Thrones. This is her 3 or 4th time playing. I reassure that this is my 3rd time playing in the last year and off we go. She leads with a Viserion and an Astapor and some shadows cards. This is actually pretty bad for me since Viserion wrecks my entire decks game plan. I play out a frozen moat and Wendmyr and pass through challenges blanking Viserion when he attacks. At this point she has several unique cards in play and is down to one card in hand. So I Valar second turn saving my Wendmyr and she never recovers. She continues to draw copies of cards which have died and I (luckily) intrigue her Maegi's Promise's. Win 19-0 Round 2 - LordofBrewtown - Baratheon Renown As I sit down across from Jason I am surprised to see him reveal a Baratheon house card. I assumed he would play Martell and the 2 of us would sit around complaining about the flavor text on Broken Spear (It's from a Catelyn Chapter). None the less off we go and he playing characters and attachments only on set up. I have locations and Wendmyr so I figure, "What the heck" and Valar first turn. Jason seems unphased. He starts his first marshall with 3 0 cost locations and gets quite a bit ahead of me. He is also starting to pile up some renown power here. I can tell by the way he is using non-unique renown guys with no saves in sight that he is not playing Valar himself so I decide to go nuts and just throw as many chars into play as I can. I start to dominate the challenges phases and on the back of Rise of the Kraken I come out on top Win 19-9 To be continued...

He meant Masey's Hook.

If you were to match the deck to a magic archetype I would call it "Wildling Stompy" The disruption package is fairly small. 3 Climbing spikes, 1 Aegons Hill, and a single River Blockade. The deck won games by playing 3-4 characters that were just better then your opponent's dudes. I would shy away from rush simply because you couldn't claim power all that quickly outside of rise of the kraken. So, in short, I will call it Wilding Stompy though it is Nate's design and certainly his to name.

I wouldn't call the GJ wildling deck control at all.

I will be at LCG days and the Iowa regional this year

I just can't get behind banning VB after playing with First Snow of Winter. That plot destroyed whole archetypes.

I also don't feel that anything needs banned but if I had to pick one card it would be Fear of Winter. Its not OP its just unfun.

I was rings 3rd round opponent.

I would say a minimum of 3 from Iowa

I would like to play. Jeremiah@s1group.com CST time zone.

I would prefer to not use any unofficial errata.

This E-mail comes directly from FFG regarding the event: Friday 7:00pm Melee Saturday 2pm Joust Sunday 10:00am Legacy Highlander Hope it helps

I would like to play in an online tourney of some sort.

I spoke with FFG yesterday and they assured there would be a schedule up tomorrow.

Dobbler said: FFG really, REALLY needs to post a schedule of events for this. Some of us have long drives to make it there and need to plan accordingly. For the Thrones events, is it LCG only? Joust? Melee? Is it going to be regional-type prizes? When is Martin scheduled to be onhand? Really, there is so much more that needs to be posted regarding this weekend and we are only 5 weeks away. This needs addressed immediately if you want people to plan on driving.

I think if I were going to play Classic Highlander somewhere serious I would probably start with something like: Blockade Outfox Outmanuver Dorne's Favorite Weapon (I would almost certainly be playing Martell) Fear of Winter After that I would probably play something that would search for Prince's Loyalist (assuming it isn't banned somehow). Is there ban list for classic highlander at all?

To be fair, you can probably play a deck that is disruptive enough to stop combo wins and search plots. The format just isn't serious enough for anyone to really meta against it.

At the tournament level intrigue is far and away the most important challenge because the best players will play control an overwhelming amount of the time. Playing a control allows someone to extend the game for longer and make a greater number of decisions (and potentially mistakes). Hand disruption is the best possible way to battle in a control mirror. You can assume that a less experienced player will draw 2 and play 2 turn but a vet with a well designed deck will not. So basically you need intrigue to win games against the best players and just drawing more cards will beat just about everyone else. Thanks for making a post I actually wanted to post in.

Lots of fun this weekend for sure. Thanks to everyone who made it Specific thanks to : Luke - the Hoke to my Daisy Andrew-Deck builder extraordinare Sheik-Martell endboss ktom-gracious host and all around nice guy Katie/Staton-sammichs..mmmm Probably more but I am at work and my boss is an a-hole so back to work.

I will definitely be representing the house of the (rising) sun.

That was both OMGPOSTTOOSHORTLAME