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1. Temur Giants – Giants seemed to get an absurd amount of payoffs in this set, and I think the hardest thing when thinking of giants is deciding what color combination to go with when building them. Blue seems an obvious choice besides red, since we get access to Invasion of the Giants, Battle of Frost and Fire, Aegar, and Glimpse of the Cosmos. Giants gets a really nice mixture of big powerful creatures, rare card advantage for such a big dumb creature deck, and a one sided board wipe can make combat in many places a nightmare for opposing decks. I chose temur for access to green giving me beanstalk giant, as well as realmwalker to cast giants from the top of the library as well. Grixis giants also seems fantastic with Kroxa as well.
   
2. Golgari Elves – Elves got a lot of nice support pieces for this set as well. Funny enough, the planeswalker Tyvar is probably one of the pieces I’m least excited for, though it still seems fine. Harald, and Harald Unites the Elves are both really nice cards for what they do in the list. Elves gets to play the good black removal you would come to expect, hopes to drop a warmaster on turn 2 and start making elves every following turn, and finally drop it’s 4 mana lord via casting it, or by grabbing it via herald Unites the Elves. I think Golgari has some good tools to be a real deck, but we’ll have to see if the tribal support is enough to make it in standard.
   
3. Snowtai Snowgods – I have a hard time explaining this one in text without sharing an image, but the deck and decklist is in the video below. Basically we play a mixture of the new DFC Gods and Snow Creatures, which can ramp rather aggressively allowing us to power out some powerful cards early. Jorn untapping snowlands is likely as powerful as it may sound, the world tree means getting to six mana opens your mana to cast anything, and a top end of Koma provides a big creature that provides creatures and protection on every upkeep. Also, should we get to sacrifice The World Tree, we have a ridiculous amount of gods to grab from our deck. This deck may be trying to do too much but I’m excited for the potential of it should it work.
   
4. Abzan Yorion – This is already a somewhat established deck, though one of the lesser played combination of the Yorion archetype. A few new cards I wanted to try here was Binding of the Old Gods and Esika’s Chariot. Binding is the obvious slam dunk fit in yorion as it does everything you want, and allowing it to destroy a nonland permanent on it’s first chapter is huge since yorion bringing this back/flickering it means its going to hit something every time. Esika’s Chariot may seem like an odd inclusion, but I like the idea of getting more tokens as this is flickered, and behing able to have more tokens made via crewing and attacking with this. The new Kaya seems like a natural fit here as well, with it’s minus ability providing more removal, and it’s plus allowing you to recast a Yorion/Skyclave Apparition. Abzan has a lot of removal and I think It’s worth a look with the new cards we have in this set.
   
5. Azorious Foretell – I’m a sucker for cards like Cosmos Charger and I want to see if it’s good enough or not. I feel that if the card IS going to be good, it’s going to be in a shell such as this. Foretell seems interesting because you get so many lines of play with it. While paying two on your own turn is a cost, your turn 2 foretell can now represent a turn 3 board wipe, a counter spell, a scry 2 draw 2, or a 3/3 flash flyer that allows more foretell shenanigans. I believe foretell may have legs to make UW control a real deck again.
   
6. Jund Deathtouch – While I can’t see this being a tier one deck at any time, I feel like it’s worth exploring just due to the potential this has with Fynn allowing players to get poison counters. 2 poison counters for every deathtouch creature hitting means deathtouch creatures only need to connect with the face 5 times before an opponent is dead with Fynn out. This is another doozy of a list but I think it’s interesting. We have cards like Varragoth that not only have deathtouch, but also allow us to tutor for what piece we may be missing whether that’s Fynn for the poison counters, Vorinclex for a beater that allows us to double those poison counters, or Zagras which gives everything deathtouch and is a big evasive threat. Again, I don’t expect this to be tier one but I believe it’s worth testing since people will try many things early in the season.
   
7. Naya Winota – Now an archetype that IS somewhat established, but Winota got some new toys. Naya Winota has a lot of interesting things to do. I’ve always been a fan of the green for Winota since Gilded Goose and Lotus Cobra are both Winota enablers that also ramp it out. One card especially interesting is Open the Omenpaths, which gives yet ANOTHER way to power out an early winota if needed, or simply give your whole board +1+0 which can be relevant after winota makes a board wide. Green also gives you the new 5 mana lord Maja which makes for a fantastic Winota hit. In Naya I opt to not play any Haktos, but it’s relevant to note that Gilded Goose into Open the Omenpaths can allow you to cast a turn 2 Haktos and depending on what it lands on protection-wise, can just end a game quickly.
   
8. Rakdos Bersekers – This is another list that I don’t expect to hit tier one or anything, but while putting the list together, I was surprised how many playable looking berserkers the tribe was given in this set. This is an aggressive deck that for the most part, simply tops out at 3 mana, but this deck provides a fast clock, and creatures that can draw cards in various ways. The Rakdos pathway is honestly the bets card rakdos of any form got from the whole set, but I think a streamlined deck like this that can just smash face and go over the top with embercleave is worth a look early on.
   
9. Jund Superfriends – This list is either the most big-brain thing I’ve ever done or it will be damn near unplayable. I’m going to make this simple and you can look at the list if you want more information. Early on we play removal. Bloodchief’s Thirst, Heartless Act, and Extinction Event. We hope to put down an In Search of Greatness as soon as we can, and that’s where the fun begins, because from 4 mana up to 8 mana, we have plansewalkers to hopefully chain into. At 4 mana we have Garruk, at 5 mana we have Chandra and Vivien, at 6 mana we have Garruk and Vorinclex (hello doubling season for my walkers), for 7 mana we have Tibalt, and at 8 mana our friend Ugin. The plan is to control the board early on and then as you build your way into these walkers, you just generate so much advantage by having multiple of these on the battlefield, and set yourself up for these nutty scenarios where you can have vorinclex and then cast any walker and ultimate it right away. Too out there? Maybe. Am I going to try this? Yes.
   
10. Azorious Flyers – Finally, an archetype that keeps pulling me back in, but UW Flyers got a few interesting toys and I always enjoy testing these sorts of lists. Sometimes these feel amazing and other times it’s obvious they just can’t work in the meta. New cards this list got was battlefield raptor, which is unassuming, but a 1/2 first strike, flyer can hold a battlefield down well against aggressive decks early. The Raven’s Warning feels like a slam dunk here making a flyer and gaining some life, and the second chapter can allow you to hold up your counter magic and see what the opponent has and draw some cards. I think this is a HOUSE in this deck.Finally, we top out at Rediane which has both sides being useful here. For anyone who’s played flyers, the deck wants to put early creatures on board and then from there just hopes to tax and counter your opponent while your evasive creatures beat them down. Both sides of Redaine seem wonderful here and Redaine turning all boardwipes/extinction events into 6 mana spells is enough to get you a win.
    

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GeorgeRRMartin: No television in the immediate future... the fantasy should keep me busy for two three more years.

A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE will eventually run to six books, so I still have three and a half to write. That will keep me busy for quite a few years.

After that, there's no telling what I'll do. If I do eventually write a prequel to ICE AND FIRE, however, it will not concern the overthrow of Aerys II. I'd go back earlier than that, and follow up with Dunk and Egg from "The Hedge Knight."

[Summary from Kay-Arne Hansen: I asked about a timeline for Robert's rebellion.]
I have rough notes on all of this, but it's nothing I want to publish just yet. I may include a Timeline as an appendix in a future book, but I need to work on it some more and fill in some details before it would ready to publish.

John: You've written for TV. You've written a lot for TV. What's your favorite medium?
GM: Books. That's easy.
John: Any particular reason? Just because no one else is messing with your work?
GM: Yeah, that's the big reason. It's very exciting to work for television, but you get tired, after a while, of constantly having to please everybody. Of hearing what the director's ideas are, and the actors' viewpoint, and the network has a note they would like accommodated; you just get sick of that. You just want to tell a story and communicate it to your audience. I'm glad I did my TV work. It was an enjoyable period of time, and the wheelbarrows full of money they also paid me were also good, but ultimately, books are my first love and my last love, and my true love.

Fourthman: Will we get more (different) maps with each book? And do you have plans past ICE AND FIRE? Besides Dunk and Egg stories I mean? Any more epics?
George_RR_Martin: Past ICE & FIRE . . . well, I have a million ideas. It depends on which one I fall in love with along about 2006 or so.
Fourthman: Which one are you dating?
George_RR_Martin: I date 'em all.

SkyDancer: I attended your reading at Seattle's University Bookstore. I very much enjoyed the reading but did not have time to stay for the signing. Excellent work and I look forward to the next (four is it?) books. How do you gauge the length of the series, and how often has it changed?
George_RR_Martin: How do I gauge it? Well, very badly, judging by the fact that it has grown from three books to six. I have changed twice. Once from three to four, then four to six. But IT ENDS THERE! SIX! SIX! SIX!

RMBoye: Will Lady Greyjoy make an appearance?
George_RR_Martin: I have no plans to bring in Lady Greyjoy, why?
RMBoye: Just curious.
George_RR_Martin: I can't drag everyone in the 7 kingdoms on stage, after all.

I will confess, the chronology of these books sometimes gives me fits. You would not believe how often I reshuffle the chapters, trying to find the one true perfect sequence. And then just when I have it exactly right, my editors weigh in from both sides of the Atlantic, each suggesting a slightly different chapter order.
It is always a balancing act, since I want the chapters to have a certain dramatic flow, I worry about certain storylines being forgotten if they are "off stage" too long, and there is a constant tug of war between character time and reader time (a character may have two chapters, taking place one day apart, but if two hundred pages of stuff about other characters separate those two chapters, the reader is going to perceive a long time as having passed, even if I begin the second chapter with, "When he woke up the very next morning..."

Amazon.com: How many novels will there be in the Song of Ice and Fire series?
George R.R. Martin: The original plan was for three. When I hit about 1,200 pages of the first book, I was still a long way from where the first book was going to end, according to my original outline. So the first book became two books, and I said... hmm... I've got four. Then as I wrote the second book I noticed that the same thing was happening. So I actually called a halt for a while and I did some reorganization and I figured out how I could tell the story I wanted to tell and do justice to it, but at the same time not spend the rest of my life doing it. And six books seemed to be the most viable way to go.

Two questions. First, any estimated date when the fourth volume will be released?
Depends on when I get it done. Sometime in 2002, most likely.

In the 1980s, you moved into television, working on series such as the new Twilight Zone and Beauty and the Beast. How did you find the experience differed from working in the medium of print? Did it teach you anything?
Ultimately it taught me that I wanted to go back to books. Oh, it was an exciting time, to be sure. I worked with some good people and did a lot of work that I remain proud of, but TV and film are collaborative mediums, and in the end I just got tired of collaborating. A book allows me to be the writer, director, producer, special effects artist, set designer, stunt man, and all the actors, rolled in one. I don't have to compromise my story to meet the demands of studio or network, or water it down because Standards and Practices thinks it's too violent or too sexy or too opinionated.

When I began, I was planning for a trilogy; three books of about 800 manuscript pages each, I estimated. Had I kept to that, I'd be done by now, with the final book about to come out -- but a story makes its own demands, and this one was simply too big to be contained in three books. Nor have any of the volumes completed to date been as short as 800 pages. Instead they have come in at approximately 1100, 1200, and 1500, respectively. And I still have three more books to go...
Had I known as I set out how huge these books would be and how long it would take me to write them, I would probably have been too intimidated to write the first sentence. But now that I am well into it, I am glad things worked out this way. I might have told a version of this story in three 800-page books, yes, but it could never have had the complexity of plot, the depth of characterization, or the richness of detail that I have been able to achieve with those added pages. Sometimes bigger is better.

Westeros is likely to keep me occupied for the next few years, admittedly.

Anyway, love the series, and hope the next three books are just as good (and hopefully quickly out :) ).
"Quickly?" Would that it were so... but these are huge books, and they take a long time to write. I'd look for A DANCE WITH DRAGONS sometime in 2002.

And about A Dance with Dragons, Martin said that he could easily put in a new PoV character, but he probably won't, because it'll make the book thicker, and he has to make ADwD thinner than ASoS.
... Martin said A Storm of Swords was on the Limit of how large a book can get. So it just CAN'T be any thicker.

Since George has not started writing DWD everything though can be changed ...
DWD will be thinner and quicker.
No new POV
Catelyn will not be a POV
More attention on Casterly Rock
No introduction on what has happened between ASOS and ADWD, but POVs will "reflect" on what happened (so no flashbacks either).
A Television station has asked for a meeting regarding an ASOIAF TV-Series. But nothing serious till now. Could change though, if LOTR becomes a box-office smash hit.
... His reason for the gap is simply that he thought each of the first three books would cover a longer timespan. He told us that since he was able just to write down a fictional span of 1-1 1/2 years in these books he had to make the break, otherwise he ASOIAF would be 10 books long.

GRRM: A DANCE WITH DRAGONS should be out in fall, 2002 in English.

(15) He doesn't outline much for novels. He works with bits and creates as he goes. Since he hops around a lot, he worries that someday he may lose his sense of story and have nothing to write.

We will learn lots about the Harrenhall tourney in the next three books, so, any prequel work he is considering will strictly be the continuation of the Dunk and Egg stories...

He has a meeting next week in Hollywood with a few execs' who want to make a TV mini-series out of these novels, I strongly tried to dissuade him... but he seemed leary of accepting thier proposal anyways...

About another two years for ADWD... but he is hoping to boost his production speed... hope he can...

I also queried about the possibility of him endorsing a 'Legends' type book, allowing other authors to also dive into Westeros... Gods... he looked at me as if I were an Other who had jumped out of his subconciousness... ha! I wish you could have seen it! He loves his creation much and jealously will he guard it.

Oh yah... and he has finished the screenplay for 'Feverdream'. Disney bought the rights. It was very hard for him. He had to dismantle one of his own favorite works for a movie, it was very difficult for him.

Book four will actually be called A DANCE WITH DRAGONS. It should be out in fall 2002, if I finish it on time. THE WINDS OF WINTER will be book five.

One thing I've found particularly interesting is how well you've been able to keep the disjointed plot moving with what seems to be equal interest. One time, I counted six or seven plots. Now that you've killed off a couple of kings, the number of plot lines is somewhat less, but you are still working with a number of story lines. Particularly with the story of Daenerys, a continent away from the central story.
Well... it will all eventually come together.

Guest says, "WINDHAVEN reprinted in Fall 2001? Or ADwD done . . . ?"
George says, "WINDHAVEN in spring 2001, ADWD in fall 2002. Sorry about that. What year is it, anyway?"

If Tyrion's the easiest character to write, who's the hardest?
Martin: Thus far I'd say the hardest character has definitely been Bran, on two counts. Number one, he is the youngest of the major viewpoint characters, and kids are difficult to write about. I think the younger they are, the more difficult. Also, he is the character most deeply involved in magic, and the handling of magic and sorcery and the whole supernatural aspect of the books is something I'm trying to be very careful with. So I have to watch that fairly sharply. All of which makes Bran's chapters tricky to write. It should be easier in the next book, I would think, with the five-year break. Then I'll have a 14-year-old, and in terms of the Seven Kingdoms, that's almost an adult.

What's the timeline like for publication of the rest of the series?
Martin: It all depends on how long it takes me to write it. They're big books, they take me a year and a half, at least, to write, and sometimes I go over those deadlines, though obviously I try not to. So unfortunately, I think we're looking at 18 months to two years for each volume, and that means we're looking for the next three books, and the ultimate end of the series, in five or six years.

Storm of Swords was the first book in the series so far that contained a seemingly crucial scene that couldn't appear "on stage" because there was no POV character present--the confrontation between Ser Loras and Brienne of Tarth over Renly. When you reach a situation like that, do you consider introducing a new point-of-view character, or using a character that only appears once, or do you try to rearrange the plot so that kind of situation won't come up?
Martin: Those point-of-view characters that I use just once tend to have a very short life span. I've so far restricted them to the prologue and epilogue. It's tricky, because when I do a point-of-view character, I don't like to put them in simply to be a pair of eyes. If I'm going to have a point-of-view character, I want to tell a story about them. Each of the viewpoints in the series has a story. It may be a story that ends in death and tragedy, in some cases it may be a story that ends in triumph and happiness, but it will be a story, with a beginning, a middle and an end, and what we call in Hollywood a character arc. I used to write screenplays and teleplays, and people would always use that term--a series of events that changes the character in some way or another. But I don't like just sticking in, as some writers do, a new character so he can see someone doing something because I have no other pair of eyes there. That kind of character is convenient, but really has no character arc. You have no place to go, you have no story to tell about that character, he's just an observer to someone else's story.

Martin: You're always learning in writing, and I was always learning new tricks, trying new techniques, different viewpoints, doing a first-person story, then a third-person story, try a time-travel story, a space opera--you're trying different things. And it's good to learn them through the short story, which lends itself to experimentation. If you have an experiment that fails, well, you've only spent a few weeks or maybe a month on it, you haven't spent two years doing an experiment that's a disaster.
The high fantasy experiment that is ASOIAF has been running for over two decades now and it risks ending in failure more than ever.

NG: Three more volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire wait to be written. What shape do you expect them to take, and are their titles finalized as yet?
GRRM: Yes, three more volumes remain. The series could almost be considered as two linked trilogies, although I tend to think of it more as one long story. The next book, A Dance With Dragons, will focus on the return of Daenerys Targaryen to Westeros, and the conflicts that creates.

One of the things I find encouraging about A Storm of Swords' success is that it's a vast book and people are reading it. That's wonderful. What is it? 120,000 words? More?
Well, it's 1500 pages in manuscript. I think I would have been too frightened to figure out what that is in words. It was amazingly long. [Laughs]
Was it a long haul?
Yes it was. I was several months late turning it in and there was a lot of pressure there at the end to finish it. But I finally got it to a place where I was satisfied with it. But then it's on to the next one of course, so... the readers read the books much more quickly than I can write them. Which is disheartening. I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out? [Laughs]

What kind of things did you do in television?
Well, I was on staff for the Twilight Zone revival that CBS did in the mid 80s. And then I was on Beauty and the Beast for three years. After that I mostly did development deals. I was creating my own pilots for new shows. I was doing some film scripts for features, some of them adapting my own work, some originals and some adapting other people's work. Nothing ever got made though. It was one of the things that ultimately frustrated me and drove me back to books. Books were really my first love. I kind of missed doing them anyway. There's a freedom there that you don't get in Hollywood. There's a full canvas to paint on so you don't have to worry about compromising: having to fight with directors or networks or studios. But the real telling thing was that, although I was making a lot of money in Hollywood writing these screenplays and developing the pilots, they weren't getting made and it was just ultimately unsatisfying. No amount of money can really take the place of... you want your stuff to be read. You want an audience and four guys in an executive office suite at ABC or Columbia is not adequate.

It sounds more satisfying than the television work.
Ultimately, yeah. I mean, there are different satisfactions to each one. When television and film is working well -- when you have a good team and you're on the same page -- it's very exciting to be working with good actors and a good director, putting something together and watching it come alive before your eyes. Watching dailies. Those are unique thrills. But that same thing can easily turn bad, you know, when the writer and director don't get along. When your actor insists on changing all your dialog. When the network is giving you notes that totally rip up part of what you were trying to do, then the experience isn't so thrilling.
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

Will he be able to finish "A Song of Ice and Fire" with so many commitments? Martin strives, he said, to finish each installment in 18 months.
And sorry, book No. 4, "The Dance with Dragons" is only a few months along. Devotees of his mythical world will just have to wait.

10- Have you begun writing A Dance with Dragons? And if yes, when will it be coming out?
The next book will be out in fall, 2002.

As to whether I'll ever finish AVALON... well, perhaps. Hard to say. Just now I am not looking past A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, which is likely to occupy me for five more years at least.

I can't wait for the next installment!! :-)
Fall 2002, I hope.

GRRM also revealed that aFoC will hopefully span the next 5/6 years so that aDwD can begin where he expected it to do so all along.
He also heavily suggested that characters that will spend their time learning in the next 5/6 years will not feature very much in the next book. But all current POVs will appear. So one can assume that we wouldn't get more than one or two Arya/Bran chapters.

This reporter believes the new PoV is that was not revealed is in fact Brienne. GRRM first reported that he struggled with the idea that there was a five year gap but that important events occured within that time period. So, he decided to scrap the five year gap and push A Dance with Dragons to be the fifth book. The Winds of Winter will be the sixth book. Parris is betting that the series will extend to a seventh book but Martin still wants to keep it to six.
But, I digress, the main reason he struggled with the gap was that important events could not be related via flashback BUT would have to be if there was a gap. In fact, he said that the unrevealed PoV was the main reason for this. This makes me believe that the new PoV is Brienne because she had taken Oathkeeper and was actively searching for Sansa. Also, I have repeated asked him for a Brienne PoV and when he announced that there was a PoV that he was not going to reveal - he looked my way.

The 4th Book will be A Feast For Crows, and will cover what would have been the five year gap. Some POV's -- who George said will be "learning" during the five year gap -- will have only one or two chapters.
The identity of the other new POV is something he's keeping a secret for now, but he did say its a character with a story to tell that really can't wait. My money is on the Hound.

A FEAST FOR CROWS is scheduled for fall, 2002, provided I can finish it on time.

I am still hoping to do it in six books... however, I have backtracked on that "shoot me in the head" promise, which might have been a bit, ah... rash.

The pertinent part is that Jordan said he had planned the WoT series to be 5 books (I did a good job not to scoff), but the story has its own mind and can't be contained (again, I didn't laugh). Martin said that he had the same problem. He had originally planned that GoT and CoK to be one book.

At the end, Jordan said there's a poll on Motley Fool (not sure if he's making it up or not) asking:
Which event will take place first?

1. Robert Jordan finishes WoT series
   
2. GRRM finishes SoIaF series
   
3. Obscure reference I didn't catch
   
4. Heat death of the universe
   

and the poll has #4 leading 5:1 to all other choices.

Dargon: Here is the all-important question on many fan’s minds. How is book four coming along? Is there any chance it might come out earlier than expected?
George: Not as far as I would like to be. Fall of next year (Fall 2002). But that depends on how quickly I can finish it. But you can’t really tell about that until you do It. Right now I’d say Fall 2002.

Dargon: We all enjoy your novels immensely. Can you give us a little heads up on what you are working on next and where your taking some of our favorite characters?
George: I have scrapped the idea of a five-year gap, as I announced not to long ago. I was originally going to make the 4th book five years later. So I’m now picking it up immediately after the third book. Most of the characters will continue as they were so there will be some new points of view. Two, I think. Cersei and... well, another one, a character who I could not see just being idle for five years.

How would you characterize the current feelings in the North.
Depressed - "Man we got screwed...time to get drunk" or
Angry - "Now that was the shit that made me mad!"
Trying to get an understanding of what the North is feeling after all that has happened to them.
Thanks for your time!
Wait till the next book, and you can read about the mood in the north for yourself.