Not only does the plot draft allow players to craft their own strategies from the available schemes and intrigues, but it guarantees that no player can ever be certain of what plot his opponent may choose to reveal. Its simplified, streamlined rules and fixed decks are meant to help players dive into new intrigues and battles as quickly as possible and make it an ideal, accessible game for fans of the HBO series. Generally, characters are the main focus of a deck as they are the principle card type used to participate in challenges, and thus collect the power tokens necessary to win. If the effect is cancelled, all costs stay paid, use limitations remain, but the effects do not occur.

As betrayal, lust, intrigue, and supernatural forces shake the four corners of the Kingdoms, their bloody struggle for the Iron Throne will have unforeseen and far-reaching consequences. Traits are bold and italicized words at the top of the textbox, and usually represent types of enhancements, such as skills or titles. Prominent Martell characters include Doran Martell, Oberyn Martell the Red Viper, his daughters the Sand Snakes, and his niece Arianne Martell. My main idea was to keep everything true to the nature of what playing cards were, in the metaphysical sense,” said Penley. House Tyrell also features prominently in the A House of Thorns expansion, as does House Bolton to a smaller extent.Each house represents one of the main factions involved in the struggle for the Iron Throne emulated by the AGoT LCG. Kill effects only work on characters, including other cards that are currently functioning as characters, but other cards can be placed in the dead pile through various game effects, such as the Deathbound keyword. Location cards represent the unique places in the setting of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, such as King's Landing, generic regions such as fiefdoms, and even mobile locations such as sailing vessels and warships.

Unless he wins the challenge, the defending player must move a number of power counters from his House banner to the attacking player’s House banner equal to the claim value on the attacking player’s revealed plot.

Attributes of a Character card consist of a gold cost (generally represented by a number overlaid on a gold coin in the upper left corner), a name across the top that may be preceded by a black flag if the character is unique and/or an infinity symbol if the character is endless, a House affiliation (represented by one or more House shields in the upper right corner, although neutral characters will have a blank shield), artwork depicting the character in the top half of the card, a strength value (represented by a number on a stylized tapestry or a nondescript shield in the middle of the left side), zero to three challenge icons (a red axe represents Military, a green eye represents Intrigue, and a blue crown represents Power) arrayed in the bottom half of the left side, and a text box in the lower half of the card. Military - if the defending player loses, he must kill a number of characters he controls equal to the claim value on the attacker's plot. Full of beautiful, realistic and dramatic illustrations, Gigatosaurus, Velociraptor, Brachiosaurus and Triceratops all feature. In A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, the warring factions of Westeros await your command, inviting you to engage in a life-or-death struggle. The player with the highest total wins dominance that round, and claims 1 power token for his House, taken from the power common pool.

Also available in regular and premium starters were a specific number of fixed cards that always appeared in that packaging. Keywords are game mechanics defined in the rules that affect that attachment such as Setup, which allows the attachment to be played at the beginning of the game unlike normal attachments. At the beginning of the game, each player shuffles their draw deck, and draws the top 7 cards, with an option for a mulligan given to each player to shuffle and draw a new hand. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The game is played through repeated rounds until one or more players meets the winning condition, or all but one player has met the elimination condition.

Most plot cards are designed with built-in trade-offs, sacrificing high claim for low income, or some other game mechanic drawback.