Game of Thrones Playing Cards

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Event cards represent special actions or happenings from the A Song of Ice and Fire novels that can be used in the course of the game. Initiative values from plot cards and other resources are tallied, and the player with the highest initiative chooses which player will go first in each phase of the current round.

Each house represents one of the main factions involved in the struggle for the Iron Throne emulated by the AGoT LCG.

Also available in regular and premium starters were a specific number of fixed cards that always appeared in that packaging.

Event cards generally have a play restriction or a cost of some type which may be paid in influence, gold, or possibly by modifying the game state of one or more characters, locations, attachments or house card. Usually the cards can legally be included in any deck, but some are marked with a skull icon to indicate they cannot be included unless special rules are in effect for that tournament.Game of Thrones: The Card Game lets two players choose their House and experience their own battles between House Stark and House Lannister. Fantasy Flight Games has an official group of volunteers that organize sanctioned tournaments for A Game of Thrones. Your plot for a round determines how much gold you can spend on cards, which player starts with initiative, and how powerful your challenges are. When magic, swords and a dragonglass dagger won't do the trick, you can win at everything from Poker to Blackjack and Solitaire using this stylish deck of cards - plus a little luck and cunning, of course. Attributes of an Event card consist of a name across the top that may be preceded by a black flag if the event is unique and/or an infinity symbol if the event is endless, artwork depicting the event in the top half of the card, and a text box in the lower half of the card.

The hardest part for her was picking which characters to put on each of the cards (and including some that are already dead in the show).Unless he wins the challenge, the defending player must choose and kill a number of his characters in play equal to the claim value on the attacking player’s revealed plot. Other lesser houses also appear in the game, in service to the Great Houses to which they are sworn. A player must earn 15 power tokens between their House card and characters in play to win A Game of Thrones.

Character cards represent the unique characters from the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, such as Eddard Stark, as well as generic individuals and massed groupings (such as armies) that can be found there. The packaging for booster packs, starter decks, and premium starter decks all have an image of a gold coin with a number representing the number of gold dragons earned, being one, two, and five respectively. At the start of each round, each player simultaneously chooses and reveals one of the plot cards from their individual seven-card plot decks. There are a number of podcasts focused on the A Game of Thrones: The Living Card Game, such as the weekly Beyond The Wall, 2 Champs and a Chump, Great Beards of Westeros and the Spanish language 2 Maestros 1 Pupilo.It will also include a game board, power tokens, gold tokens, as well as game pieces to use for the multiplayer titles. Common game mechanics include attachment manipulation, strength reducers and kill effects on strength 0 characters (frequently referred to as "burn" effects), and playing characters outside of the marshalling phase.