Post edited 3:29 pm – March 1, 2012 by Kevin

I recently started playing AGoT and ended up picking up all the cards for the group I game with regularly (minus the Summer/Winter chapter packs that are unavailable everywhere). As it turns out my friends are rather lazy, so I ended up assembling a deck for each house myself. We'll end up either picking a deck at random, or rolling dice with the highest roller getting first pick, and so on. This being the case, I picked out themes for each deck that I thought would be competitive, different from each other, and fun.

Lannister – Power Behind the Throne with lots of kneeling effects (This was the house/deck I planned to play from the start, so a lot more thought went into it and I have played/refined it a lot more than the others)

Greyjoy – Similar to what J.B. mentioned above, I put together a deck around Euron Crow's Eye from the Grand Melee chapter pack and a light discard theme. Toss in some saves/cancels and this deck routinely does well and is usually among the first picked by my friends.

Martel – Ghaston Grey deck that is probably similar to most other decklists out there. I originally used the Knights of The Hallow Hill agenda and influence users like Red Vengeance, but had some poor showings. I have since changed to no agenda and removed the influence requiring cards. It seems to have made the deck more consistent and usually does better now.

Targaryen – Dragons, using Knights of the Hallow Hill agenda + At the Gates (to fetch Advisor to the Crown) for a guaranteed 4 influence turn 1. 

Baratheon – Knights of Realm agenda with a Noble sub-theme. Lots of renown, nobles, and The Power of Blood plot x2.

Stark – I let my younger brother build this deck as Stark is his favorite house. He uses The Siege of Winterfell agenda and then just some solid characters. I will probably end up adjusting it to be more of an army/war crest deck in the future.

I had success running maesters + dragons.  I would use Dragon Lore and play lots of dragons with dupes – finishing with Balerion and return to hand effects (Xaro, Called to Court, etc) to replay him multiple turns.  If it goes off – and it's actually somewhat reliable – you get a board of dragons and their board is knelt.

In the end, it was a lot of fun and decently successful – but it also fell apart against certain deck types.  Any form of control and you're in trouble and I saw a lot of it.  Even something as simple as one kneel effect can really hurt.  And search and detained is a pain in the backside, too. 

Kyle, on the of the IL guys in the Iowa City meta played his girlfriend's Dragon deck at the Days of Ice & Fire in November and made top 8.  But that silly Search & Detain plot just wrecks them now.  Short of running 6+ init plots, there's no way to run protective attachments on the Dragons, and no number of dupes will save them. :/

Right now, I just got my siege/fury/deep freeze stark deck built. Was originally gonna build something different, but then I bought all those cards and fell in love with different cards… Hope to test it out soon.