🚨This set is a work in progress and subject to change!🚨 Set Design

This is a booster draft set for the Game of Thrones LCG 2nd Edition.

• Card pool: based on Forgotten Heroes through When All is Darkest (GOT era)
• Set structure is inspired by Valyrian Draft Set (FFG era)
• Each faction gets 1 new rare card as chase cards and to add missing named characters
• Each faction gets 3 new common cards to enable and tie together mechanical themes
• Some cards are slightly modified to make them playable and/or open up some restrictions

Design Philosophy

• Common:
  • provide traits and minimize trait references
  • no uniques
  • lean towards one-time effects over repeatable engines
  • lean towards effects that provide tempo and accelerate the game
• Uncommon:
  • uniques and higher impact effects
  • buildarounds for traits that appear with higher density
  • cards that tend to slow down the game
  • card advantage engines
• Rare:
  • strong trait buildarounds
  • draft "sidequest" buildarounds
  • standalone wincons
  • play patterns and high impact effects that shall only appear infrequently

Draft Structure

• 1 rare, 1 plot, 4 uncommon, 8 common per pack
• Alternative being tested: 1 rare, 5 uncommon OR plot (avg 1 plot per pack), 7 common, 1 foil of any rarity
• 4 packs per player
• 40 card deck size minimum
• 7 card plot deck

Draft Starter

• Contains mostly FFG-era cards that players would have to supply from their collection
• Agendas follow the Valyrian Draft Set model of: 2 Factions, 3 Factions, All Factions (conditional), All factions (unconditional with downside)
• Bonus Agendas: The Iron Bank of Braavos (Bestow) and Shadowbinders of Asshai (Shadow)
• 10 plots to allow for a less predictable plot game even if no plots are drafted
• 1 guaranteed plot slot per pack to make additional plots more consistently available
• Deck cards include only economy staples:
  • 3x Kingsroad
  • 3x Roseroad
  • 3x Crossroads Innkeeper (reducer for any character)

Approaching the "trait issue"

• Compared to Valyrian Draft Set, the GOT card pool is much more reliant on specific traits
• Some factions like Baratheon and Martell have minimal trait dependencies
• Others like Stark reference several different traits that cannot all be supported reasonably in the draft at sufficient density
• To help with this, there are several "choose a trait" cards in the set:
  • Three Heads of the Dragon (Starter Agenda)
  • Wolf Dreams (Common Stark Event)
  • Faceless Man (Common Neutral Character)
  • Face Mask (Common Neutral Attachment)