The first Chapter Pack in the Wardens cycle for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game!

In Secrets and Schemes, you will discover sixty new cards (three copies each of twenty different cards) that touch upon the schemes concocted by those patient individuals who have remained above or outside of the wars that have shaken the Seven Kingdoms. Additionally, you’ll learn how they make their opening moves with a host of new Knights, attachments, and the agenda, Aloof and Apart (Secrets and Schemes, 18), which encourages players to revisit some of the game’s most expensive, powerful, and recognizable characters.

Additionally, as it opens the Wardens cycle, Secrets and Schemes begins the exploration of its ongoing themes. For more about these themes and what the cycle has to offer players of every type, we turn to lead developer Nate French.

Lead Developer Nate French on the Wardens Cycle
The Wardens cycle is the twelfth expansion series for A Game Thrones: The Card Game, and with it, we sought to explore a number of under-explored nooks and crannies, both in the game and in the A Song of Ice and Fire setting. This means there’s plenty to appeal to all three of our archetypal players: Ned, Shagga, and Jaime.

The “Ned” Archetype
“Ned” players are fans of the source material, who come to the game to immerse themselves in the A Song of Ice and Fire setting. For such players, the biggest draw in the Wardens cycle is likely to be its exploration of the Vale of Arryn and the Eyrie.

In this expansion cycle, you’ll find a number of important unique characters and locations that have not yet appeared in the LCG®, including Lysa and Robert Arryn, The Knight’s Declarant, The Moon Door, and the “Petyr Baelish” version of Littlefinger.

In the novels, a number of different lords and ladies desire the support of the Vale, but the Arryns have not yet emerged as a unified player in the game of thrones. To this end, the Arryn cards were designed so that they can be splashed as useful support into a wide variety of different decks, rather than collected together as a unified deck archetype. Instead of having a direct impact, the Arryns are more content to lend their support and influence from afar, “safe” within the walls of their Eyrie.

The “Shagga” Archetype
“Shagga” players are fans of novelty, always eager to play around with any new “bright and shiny” toys. The Castle plots of the Wardens cycle introduce a new type of “delayed” plot effects to the cardpool. In exchange for broadcasting their intentions ahead of time and delaying the payoff, Castle plots allow players to take advantage of powerful effects when these plots enter their used plot piles. Because they represent the tendency of the Arryns to plot slowly and cautiously behind the impregnable walls of their mountain fortress, these cards also have a nice Nedly angle to them.

In addition to these new Castle plot cards, you’ll find support for a number of synergistic Trait-based decks that have long enticed Shagga players, but that have not yet made it to the top of the competitive hill. Clansman, House Tully, Sand Snake, Dothraki, and Raider decks all receive a number of new options in this expansion, and House Baratheon gains an entirely new set of cards that focus on the Rainbow Guard.

The “Jaime” Archetype
Finally, the “Jaime” player archetype is the competitive player, for whom winning isn’t just the ultimate objective – it’s the only objective. As we looked at the game from the perspective of these players, we decided that the category of “Limited Response” abilities had not yet been satisfactorily explored.

For most decks and games the limitation of “1 limited response per round” just wasn’t a big deal. To make this aspect of the game experience more interesting, a number of powerful limited response abilities, such as those on The Drumm (Secrets and Schemes, 4) and Maester Vyman were designed into the Wardens card pool. These should challenge competitive players to determine which limited responses, and how many, to include in their decks. They’ll also find themselves confronted with more over-the-board situations in which the decision as to which limited response is more useful in a given round becomes a significant choice.

Another area of the game that was explored from a “Jaime” perspective in this cycle was the cost threshold between printed cost “3” and printed cost “4.” Historically, this has been an important breaking point in a card’s evaluation, where, once a card costs four or more, the Jaime evaluation of the card changes dramatically so that only the most fantastic four-cost characters are considered for inclusion in such a player’s deck.

To challenge these assumptions, the Wardens cycle provides players with a number of cards such as The Eyrie and The Bloody Gate that encourage the use of higher cost characters. Attacking the situation from the other side, a number of cards such as Mord, Sky Cell, and Ser Ilyn Payne aim to undermine the reliability of characters with printed costs of three or lower, necessitating that competitive players re-evaluate the relative merits of vast swaths of the character pool when working out their decks.

Whether you count yourself a Ned, Shagga, or Jaime – or some combination thereof – the Wardens cycle was designed and developed with you in mind. We’re looking forward to seeing what you do with them!

Enter the Fray
For years, some of the Seven Kingdoms’ most powerful lords and ladies have remained aloof, apart from the turbulent wars that have revolved around the Iron Throne. Now, as they start to stir to action, how will you respond? Will you broker an allegiance? Will you crush them in battle? Will you use lies and cunning to foment dissent within their ranks?

As the first Chapter Pack in the Wardens cycle, Secrets and Schemes ushers into the game some remarkable new characters, locations, attachments, and plots. However, it also serves as a portent of those things yet to come.

• The first Chapter Pack in the Wardens cycle for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game
• A new agenda, Aloof and Apart, encourages players to revisit their most expensive and recognizable characters
• Two new plots reward players who patiently gather their strength
• Begins the cycle’s exploration of the House Arryn trait and Castle plot type
• Powerful new Weapon attachments add “Limited Response” abilities that encourage meaningful decisions

The fourth Chapter Pack in the Wardens cycle for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game!

While the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros were rocked by war, the lords and ladies of the Vale remained aloof and apart, separated from the tumult by steep mountains and treacherous mountain passes. Now, as the cards in A Time for Wolves explore the power struggles of the war’s aftermath, they find the lords and ladies of King’s Landing hatching new schemes and seeking new political alliances. A new king sits the Iron Throne, but the crown is vulnerable. Thus, in A Time for Wolves, we find some of the realm’s most ambitious lords and ladies casting their gaze toward the Eyrie and House Arryn, eager to reinforce their strength with that of the Vale.

A Time for Wolves introduces sixty new cards (three copies each of twenty different cards) that ensure House Arryn and the Vale will soon make a massive impact upon A Game of Thrones: The Card Game. You’ll find no fewer than five cards with the House Arryn trait, including such notable characters as Petyr Baelish (A Time for Wolves, 77), Alayne Stone (A Time for Wolves, 71), and Lysa Arryn (A Time for Wolves, 76). Furthermore, as part of the Wardens cycle, A Time for Wolves adds more strength to decks that feature characters who cost four or more, more trait-based synergies, more interactions with the game’s Castle plots, and more “limited response” abilities for you to trigger.

New Strength for the Creature Trait
One of the cards in A Time for Wolves that adds to the focus that the Wardens cycle places upon trait-based synergies is the Chapter Pack’s namesake plot, A Time for Wolves (A Time for Wolves, 80).

Designed by 2012 North American Overall Champion Dan Seefeldt, A Time for Wolves offers a respectable three gold, three initiative, and one claim. But its highlight is that it introduces a powerful, new search effect that can add strength and utility to a wide variety of decks:

* Creatures are at the hearts of the vast majority of all Winter and Summer decks, and they can use A Time for Wolves to search for White Raven (The Winds of Winter, 24) or Black Raven (A Song of Summer, 2). Of course, these decks most often run another search plot, A Time for Ravens (A Change of Seasons, 59), but adding A Time for Wolves to such a deck gives it an extra edge in a seasons battle. At the very least, it can allow you to fetch a Carrion Bird (A Song of Summer, 16), which remains one of the game’s most efficient and effective characters.
* In A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, Dragons all share the Creature subtype, meaning that A Time for Wolves has a plenty to offer House Targaryen. Whether you search for the Shadows-crested hatchlings from the Queen of Dragons deluxe expansion, the one-cost hatchlings from the Defenders of the North and Brotherhood Without Borders cycles, or the new three-cost versions from A Hidden Agenda, this plot can help you quickly assemble a full strike force of Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion.
* The plot may also lead to some unexpected twists in deck designs, spurring the introduction of various Creatures, such as Warhorses, into archetypes that wouldn’t previously had made use of them. For example, Lannister decks based around the extra Intrigue challenges granted by The Power Behind the Throne (Lions of the Rock, 48) might add A Time for Wolves and one or two copies of Andal Charger (A Poisoned Spear, 104) so that Cersei Lannister (Lions of the Rock, 6), or another character capable of winning Intrigue challenges while attacking by itself, could carve the cards of your choice out of your opponent’s hand.

However, as you might expect, A Time for Wolves provides the greatest boost to House Stark. Excepting the neutral version of Ghost (Core Set, 137), every Direwolf in the game has given its unwavering support to Stark, and in decks that run one or more Direwolf cards, A Time for Wolves is more than a search effect; it’s also a free card play.

* Notably, in a deck with Direwolves, A Time for Wolves is a free card play in the Plot phase. If you suspect that your opponent is about to play Valar Morghulis (Core Set, 201), you can reveal A Time for Wolves to pull Nymeria (Core Set, 2) out of your deck and attach it to your most important House Stark character.
* In fact, since A Time for Wolves lets you play any Direwolf, not just characters, you can accelerate your Direwolf attachment decks by fetching Shaggydog (Lords of Winter, 3) or Grey Wind (Lords of Winter, 2) and bringing it immediately into play.
* Finally, there is the House Stark version of Ghost (The Wildling Horde, 61), which multiplies the impact of one of the Starks’ strongest characters, Meera Reed (Tourney for the Hand, 2). When she comes out of Shadows, Meera Reed can blank the text box of any non-plot card until the end of the phase, or if it is Winter, she can blank the text boxes of two different cards. This ability is just as powerful as it sounds, and it can single-handedly render your opponent’s biggest threats impotent. However, Meera’s ability to blank cards only triggers when she comes out of Shadows, and even though she can return to Shadows as a Response whenever a Stark character leaves play, a cunning opponent isn’t going to direct any Military challenges at you or otherwise help you remove Stark characters from the table until Meera is headed for the dead pile. This is where Ghost comes into play or, rather, uses its ability to leave play. Once you have both Meera and Ghost on the table, you gain the ability to blank your opponent’s cards turn after turn, bringing Meera out of Shadows, returning Ghost to your hand, returning Meera to Shadows, and playing Ghost again in your next Marshaling phase.

Because of all of the different tricks and tactics that it can promote, A Time for Wolves adds new strength to the Wardens cycle and its focus on trait-based decks, and it is likely to soon earn its place among the game’s most versatile Champion cards.

Anything Is Possible
In A Time for Wolves, the heads of House Arryn begin to extend their reach beyond the Vale, making their first moves in the ongoing game of thrones and their bid for the Iron Throne. Still, the question remains: Whose side will they take? As neutral characters, the members of House Arryn can add their strength to any House. Will they side with the Direwolves of House Stark or the Dragons of House Targaryen? Will Lysa Arryn lend her support to Renly and his Rainbow Guard, or will she help House Martell and its Sand Snakes claim vengeance against House Lannister? Twelve unique characters and locations lend new direction to a wide range of strategies, and anything is possible.

• The fourth Chapter Pack in the Wardens cycle for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game
• Features twelve unique characters and locations, including such notable figures at Petyr Baelish, Lysa Arryn, and Alayne Stone
• Continues the cycle’s enrichment of decks built around characters of cost four or more and trait-based decks
• Three “limited response” abilities add more meaningful decisions to your deck-building process
• Introduces a new Champion Card, the plot A Time for Wolves

The fifth Chapter Pack in the Wardens cycle for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game!

Stand strong with Renly’s Rainbow Guard, ride the sweeping plains of Essos with the Dothraki, or raid Westeros with the Clansmen of the Vale in this Chapter Pack. The major themes of the Wardens cycle continue in House of Talons, offering more support for trait-based decks, limited responses, and high-cost, iconic characters from A Song of Ice and Fire. Aside from offering support to each of the six Great Houses in A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, House of Talons also includes new characters bearing the House Arryn trait, offering new ways to take advantage of Castle plots.

Kings of Mountain and Vale
Castle plots have been gaining strength throughout the Wardens cycle, rewarding you for planning ahead and patiently playing the long game. These plots offer a variety of powerful effects, but unlike most plots, which offer a benefit for the round in which they are played, Castle plots only trigger their effect when they are placed in their owner’s used pile. The unique timing of these plots makes them very difficult to counter – you can rest assured when you rely on the strength of your Castles.

In House of Talons, you’ll find another Castle plot that offers you a way to build card advantage over the long-term: Kings of Mountain and Vale (House of Talons, 100). After Kings of Mountain and Vale is placed in your used pile, you draw one card and discard one card at random from each opponent’s hand. Developing card advantage is one of the most important aspects of A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, and Kings of Mountain and Vale aids your efforts to seize and maintain card advantage over the course of the game.

Of course, if you’re playing the long game with Castle plots, you need some ways to stall your opponent’s power gain. House of Talons offers some help with Bronze Yohn Royce (House of Talons, 97). This character can help you gain power of your own with his renown keyword, and after a Castle plot is placed in your used pile, you can choose and discard one power from any character. Many decks claim power directly to characters with renown or special abilities. With Bronze Yohn Royce or a character like Melisandre (Core Set, 74) supporting your claim to the Iron Throne, you can start working to slow these decks down, giving you enough time to build your armies and plot your own path to victory.

You’ll also find a way to channel your Castle plots into the path to the Iron Throne in House of Talons. You can gain power from your Castle plots by supporting the claim of Robert Arryn (House of Talons, 98). Robert Arryn is free to play, and although he has a power icon, he has zero STR, so his greatest benefit lies in his ability. His text reads, “Response: After a Castle plot card is moved to your used pile, Robert Arryn claims 2 power. (Limit once per round.)” By claiming two power whenever a Castle plot moves to your used pile, Robert Arryn allows you to increase your power intake beyond what you win in your challenges. What’s more, Robert Arryn’s Noble crest means that you can safeguard him (and his power) with The Power of Blood (Core Set, 194).

Gather Your Allies
In House of Talons, you decide which path to victory you will pursue. You may seek vengeance for past wrongs with the Sand Snakes of Dorne, you may devote yourself to duty and honor with the men and women of House Tully, or you may rely on the impregnable Castles of House Arryn to claim power. No matter which path you choose, you’ll find plenty of cards to support your goals in this Chapter Pack.

An A Game of Thrones: The Card Game core set is required to play. Contains cards 81-100 of the Wardens cycle.

The final Chapter Pack in the Wardens cycle for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game!

The Eyrie rests high above the lands of the Vale, home to House Arryn. The words of their House are “As High As Honor,” but despite this noble declaration, there are still horrors to be found in the Eyrie. The sky cells and their jailor have driven men mad with terror, and in The Blue Is Calling expansion, you can turn this mindless fear against your opponents with new House Arryn characters and attachments.

You’ll find new ways to pursue the Iron Throne beyond the bounds of the Vale with the sixty new cards (three copies each of twenty distinct cards) included in this expansion. The Blue Is Calling brings the Wardens cycle and its focus on House Arryn to a triumphant conclusion and expands the possibilities for your other trait-based decks, including Baratheon’s Rainbow Guard, Greyjoy’s Raiders, Lannister’s Clansmen, and more. You may race with the Dothraki across the plains of Essos, plot revenge with the Sand Snakes, or solidify your hold on the Eyrie with the unorthodox prisons of House Arryn.

The Sky Cells
For the first time in A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, The Blue Is Calling gives you the chance to condemn your opponent’s characters to the terror and imminent death of the Eyrie’s prisons. Sky Cell (The Blue Is Calling, 119) is a free attachment that you can attach to any character with a printed cost of three or lower. As soon as you imprison one of your opponent’s characters in a Sky Cell, his mind begins to succumb to madness: the controller of a character with Sky Cell attached must select his next plot card at random. The ramifications of a random plot selection can easily change the course of the game. A plot like The Power of Blood (Core Set, 194) could be wasted by using it at an inopportune moment, but revealing Rule by Decree (Core Set, 206) or Valar Morghulis (Core Set, 201) at the wrong time may completely ruin your opponent’s position.

Once the madness of a Sky Cell has begun to fester in the consciousness, there is only one escape: a step outwards, into the blue! A player with a Sky Cell attached to one of his characters can take an action during the marshaling phase to kill the attached character. This character cannot be saved, forcing your opponent to choose between being able to play that character for the rest of the game, or being forced to choose his plots at random as long as the character lives. Since you can target characters as powerful as Daenerys Targaryen (Ancestral Home, 76) or Ser Edmure Tully (The Champion’s Purse, 32) with the Sky Cell, you can be certain that you’ll give your opponent some very difficult choices whenever you play it.

The sky cells can drive your opponent mad with terror, and the brutish jailor who oversees them can be equally dangerous to your opponent’s plans. In this Chapter Pack, you gain access to Mord (The Blue Is Calling, 118). Mord has one Strength and a military icon, but his most effective use can be found in his Response, which reads, “After you win dominance, choose a character with printed cost 3 or lower. Shuffle that character into its owner’s deck unless its controller moves 1 gold from his or her gold pool to Mord.”

By preying upon your opponent’s characters, you may quickly deprive him of expendable servants, forcing him to put his more valuable characters into danger. Shuffling characters back into your opponent’s deck also denies him the chance to recur them from the dead or discard piles with tricks like Melisandre’s Scheme (Reach of the Kraken, 9). The only way for your opponent to escape this fate is to pay a bribe, moving one of his gold dragons from his gold pool to Mord. Gold on Mord can be spent as though it were in your gold pool, granting you an additional source of income that cannot be taken in the taxation phase.

Into the Blue
You can enact the justice of House Arryn and turn the sky cells against your opponent with the cards included in The Blue Is Calling. Expand the plots of the Arryns and claim the Iron Throne in this expansion and the other Chapter Packs in the Wardens cycle!

• The climactic conclusion to the Wardens cycle for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game
• Sixty new cards (three copies each of twenty different cards) bring new tools to every House, such as Greyjoy Raiders and Lannister Clansmen
• Play such memorable characters from A Song of Ice and Fire as Mord, the jailor of the sky cells
• Visit such notable locations as the Dothraki Sea
• A new plot offers powerful rewards to players focusing on defending their claim to the Iron Throne

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