I came across a thread dated mid-2010 with a discussion on the combination of these three plots.  I've been running them combined with a low cost Stark build with multiple epic battle events with much success.  The post pre-dates my discovery of the game (mid-2011), so I'm wondering why this combination died out - my play group had never seen it before I tried it out, and I don't recall seeing any tourney decks that feature this build.  It still seems very effective - is it just that the meta has moved on, or is there something in particular that squashed its use?

Meta moved on is probably part of it. The other is that the mid-2010 thread probably pre-dates the restricted list. Use of Fear of Winter in general has dropped since it became restricted. As nice as the Fear/RBD/Blockade combo may be, there are other plots, and other restricted cards, people want to use now.

It does predate the Restricted list - the posted deck featured both Fear of Winter and Fury of the Wolf.  After a selecting a new plot, and modernizing it a bit(adding Merra, etc…) its performed pretty well - especialy against rush decks.Control decks have an easier time with it so far, but I'm still tuning it.

depending on your own deck's gold curve, you might want to consider using First Snow of Winter as a way of slowing down other weenie decks.

Thanks for the suggestion, but this deck only has about 5 characters above 2 gold. :)  I'm currently running The Grand Melee for the claim and to take advantage of the sheer number of characters I can marshall. 

It is interesting to me that the Worlds Overalll Champ was running an Epic Stark Seige deck.  I haven't heard much about card/plot specifics, except that in the first melee match he spilled out 4 epic events and won in the first round.  I guess this type of deck still has some punch left in it.

 Ya, siege epic battle with non-kneeling characters and Syrio's are pretty sweet. I've been real impressed with the deck for a while. (I'd really like the Baratheon version to be better than it is, but alas, tis not.)