A Game of Thrones: The Card Game – Core Set - Tips & Strategies

If you want to play with four players, you definitely need two Core sets. This will allow you to customize each and (most importantly) play with the Fate cards a bit.

I also recommend picking up the two big box expansions for House Martell and House Greyjoy, the Princes of the Sun and the Kings of the Sea. This will give you enough cards to have a full 60 card deck for each of the Houses, which makes it more interesting and gives you more options when playing.

As far as the monthly mini-expansions go, the first three I would advise anyone to pick up are Ancient Enemies, Sacred Bonds, and Refugees of War. They add a number of really fun cards for each of the decks.

There is a plot card that kills all of the units in play. Since you can go through your plot deck and choose your plot each turn that means there is a way for an opponent punish you if you over commit units to the battlefield. You must play around this.

I enjoy the books and the television adaptation and The Boy really likes his LCG’s, but I don’t have time to sift through cards and build a deck and pour molten gold on top of people’s heads while living a cosmopolitan lifestyle.

Similar to the idea of the ‘Learn to Play’ pre-builds, we have devised a way to play a quick (if not legal) game with just the core set and without the preparation fuss.

We just divide the cards into House Decks and grab two and smash them together adding a split of 7/7 Neutral/Plot cards playing to 10 points.

It is quick way to play for play’s sake and a good way to see how different Houses work together if just learning.

Don’t focus too much in any one attack type. Leaving yourself weak in one invites attacks and severely limits your options.