A few questions not answered in the rules of play

By Sagremor, in 2. AGoT Rules Discussion

1. What is the benefit of attaching a card to your House card? Some locations have this ability.

2. In the Clash of Arms cycle there are cards with gold background instead of regular one (Rhaegar's Harp, Battle of Ruby Ford). What does it mean?

3. In the Clash of Arms cycle there is a card with ornaments on its right side (Rhaegar Targaryen). What do those ornaments mean?

Thanks for help.

And one more question:

4. What does the infinity mark mean? Some cards have it next to their names.

Sagremor said:

1. What is the benefit of attaching a card to your House card? Some locations have this ability.

When you attach the location to your House card, it counts as an attachment, not a location. So if you are worried about people playing cards like Condemned by the Council, Pyromancer's Apprentice or Fleeing to the Wall, you are better off playing it as an attachment in order to protect it from all those anti-location effects. Of course, if you are playing against a Targaryen opponent, with all of their anti-attachment effects, you're probably safer playing it as a location.

Sagremor said:

2. In the Clash of Arms cycle there are cards with gold background instead of regular one (Rhaegar's Harp, Battle of Ruby Ford). What does it mean?

3. In the Clash of Arms cycle there is a card with ornaments on its right side (Rhaegar Targaryen). What do those ornaments mean?

Nothing. They are just funky art elements. The Clash of Arms cycle was originally designed as a CCG Expansion Set, not an LCG Chapter Pack cycle. Had it been published as a CCG set, those 3 cards would have been FFG's first (intentional) "ultra rare" cards - with the funky art elements as an indicator of that status. Since they were instead published as fixed cards, they're just pretty.

Sagremor said:

4. What does the infinity mark mean? Some cards have it next to their names.

In and of itself, it doesn't mean anything. However, it usually appears on cards that have effects that can be triggered from the dead or discard pile and so acts as a handy reminder that they're there to use. People will often put them into the piles at right angles to the rest of the pile so they can see the infinity symbol and not, in the following Marshaling phase say, "Crap! I forgot to get my Forever Burning back last Dominance!"

Sagremor said:

1. What is the benefit of attaching a card to your House card? Some locations have this ability.

2. In the Clash of Arms cycle there are cards with gold background instead of regular one (Rhaegar's Harp, Battle of Ruby Ford). What does it mean?

3. In the Clash of Arms cycle there is a card with ornaments on its right side (Rhaegar Targaryen). What do those ornaments mean?

Thanks for help.

Sagremor said:

1. What is the benefit of attaching a card to your House card? Some locations have this ability.

2. In the Clash of Arms cycle there are cards with gold background instead of regular one (Rhaegar's Harp, Battle of Ruby Ford). What does it mean?

3. In the Clash of Arms cycle there is a card with ornaments on its right side (Rhaegar Targaryen). What do those ornaments mean?

Thanks for help.

1) its a way of avoiding location control

2) just to denote that they are legendary, no impact on game play

3) those are crests, he happens to have two.

4) it means that they can be brought back from the dead or discard pile.

Lars said:

3) those are crests, he happens to have two.

He's talking about the "Legendary" scroll-work, not the crests.

Thanks for such exhaustive answers Ktom!