tom brown
United Kingdom
Stanley
Co. Durham
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our lords of winter expansion arrived this morning, so my girlfriend Tracy and I decided to try it out with both decks that are outlined in lords of winter.
Both decks were easy to build requiring only lord of winter and 1 copy of the core set, and with us having 2 copies of the core set we had cards a'plenty.
It was irritating to have to take cards out of the core Baratheon and Targaryen core decks but since we have 2 copies its kinda ok.
I decided to take the tully deck, and tracy took the direwolf deck as she really likes them as well as the starks as characters in the books.
I have to say it was a pretty one sided game in my favour. I managed to get the blackfish down in setup, as well as a +1gold location, and on the firt turn got edmures army on the table. With neither decks really having intrigue me getting the strongest battle characters down first really set the tone. Tracy got the kennelmaster and a whole load of the cheaper stark children out but nothing that was standing up to me.
The blackfish managed to win his renown power, and on turn 4 Eddard came onto my table, so undefened power challenge renown won me the game really quickly.
The direwolf deck uses the core catelyn whereas the tully deck uses the new catelyn which is much more useful for intrigue defense, being able to be played out of my hand.
The other strange thing about the decks was the tullys having valhar morghulis as a plot. surely the direwolf would prefer this as they have a lot of cheap cost characters, whereas the tully deck really needs all its tully characters and renown to be any use so there isnt much point in killing off all your characters.
Although I was playing against the direwolf deck and didnt get to see it working fully, I still think the tully deck is a lot stronger. Hopefully i'll get a re-match the other way around. Also ive said it before but i think that you could make a very good army heavy king robb and his army deck.
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Jason Kirckof
United States
Tacoma
Washington
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The Tully deck in the Lords of Winter set is a much better deck. Mostly due to fact it has lot more synergy and cheaper units that get out on table faster. I agree with you on valhar morghulis, it would better fit in the direwolf deck. Also since you have two core sets I would double up on some cheaper core units like Direwolf Pup and Kennel Master if you already haven't. Also add extra copy (or two) of the location Wolfswood the set list only has one, but having all direwolves having stealth as early as possible will give a bigger advantage, another possilbility is use the Building Season plot to get it out.
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Gavin Schmitt
United States
Baltimore
Maryland
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Tully's edge over many opponents is one sided card draw/search. So valar isn't totally absurd... but i agree: there are better plots for them in general.
I'm not convinced Direwolves work as a deck. Sure, they are cheap for their STR and new cards have given them saves and +str perks but they are so 1 sided! Int and pow challenges just shread them and they lack house tully and house bolton's built in draw mechanics.
I'd love to be proven wrong on this so please let me know if you build a dwolf deck that's competitive :)
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Tagore N
United Kingdom
Hammersmith and Fulham
London
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The "Tully" draw mecahnics are so good, they provide the majority of Stark's Competitive Draw... Most Stark Decks run 3x Guard at Riverrun and at least 1, but more often 3 copies of the Blackfish as their main source of draw...
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