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( 10 ) ♦ Balerion the Black

STR 10 (M) ( P )

Creature. Dragon.

Renown. Deadly. No attachments.

Response: After you play Balerion the Black from your hand, kneel all non-Dragon characters and locations.

Too bad it doesn't work with Varamyr Sixskins.

This legend is EPIC.

man I absolutely LOVE For R'hllor! This might just make a holy deck viable. Make them discard down to four and then snipe a card with Confession.

I really like that version of the Wall too. I've always thought that characters jumping into play from your hand was way better if they returned afterwards. Love the fact that you can do it for every challenge against you. This is going to be awesome in melee! Not sure how I feel about it in joust yet though.

Starfall Healer really irks me. I don't think that a house other than GJ should get this level of save in house.

Balerion seems unplayable at ten gold. lol But I'll be damned if he's not badass! Katie actually won an art print of him for her melee performance. It is such cool art!

Egg said:

Too bad it doesn't work with Varamyr Sixskins.

Maybe not for the ability, but consider Balerion, Varamyr and Summer Encampment in combination....

Targaryen Wildlings just got much better. Val + Street Waif could mean uber draw. Character driven, but man, that's a risk I'd love to take.

Definitely the best CP of the set. Too bad it isn't out for the NYC Regional

Balerion is cool, but he won't see much play, if any, in my opinion.

I'm just a humble newbie, but I would have hoped Balerion would be a bit better/more survivable, to make him even vaguely playable, and ideally have some kind of unique new ability we haven't seen before to really justify his existence.

I don't want to go to great effort to get out my fancy new terrifying dragon and then have him go stumbling off to a brothel a few rounds later

some of the other cards do look interesting though, Not least that plot card.

FATMOUSE said:

I love the grey holy char... terrific!!! And the martell "cancel challenges resolution"... and stark plot... and... lots of other cards ;-)

The Agenda and Plot actually look pretty game-changing (BTW you have to unclick agendas and plots to see them).

I have a feeling Blood of the First Men might be in every deck I play along with the unique Wildlings.

Cool Chapter Pack! Weird, I thought Black Hatchling would have been released in this CP forsure. I guess Balerion makes up for it .

This CP and the Expansion are really going to tilt the game away from the Lanni side, in my opinion. Lanni is still awesome, but throwing some pull toward the gold supply, but we'll actually start having some real fun with the other Houses as well. I guess that the designers have been paying attention!

Now what I'd like to see is a bit more of a chaotic variety of tactics available with each house. I don't know, it may be impossible without throwing balance to the wind, but I'd like to see more deck versatility. OR maybe it's an inevitability with CPs and expansions like this to really get some diversity.

Anyway, awesome month for aGoT LCG.

Jux69 said:

Considering that the artwork for the first "Brothers without Banners" pack, Illyrio's Gift , has the black hatchling artwork, I'm betting he'll be in the next cycle, if not the first pack.

It's nice to see the whole cycle finally revealed, and I love The Wall. Looking forward to dropping the NW army in the middle of a challenge. And the new Mance is great.

And with Balerion and the new Stark plot, we're seeing the fruits of the first Storyline votes.

Finally! Martell get a life saver. I may just have to bring back the Daynes.

ktom said:

Will only work if you play summer encampent after balerion though, so it doesn't seem as such a reliable combo.

Are we going to be seeing Return of the Others this month, or are they making us wait till next month because of the expansion?

Well, since Rogue30 already has the spoilers up, it must be out somewhere already. The chapter pack releases don't seem to follow a completely rigid schedule, but I'd say it could come out any week now.

LetsGoRed said:

Where exactly can I find the results of this?

Rozy said:

As far as I know, the only published results are what shows up in the chapter packs (ie we know Stark and Balerion won because we see the cards in print).

schrecklich said:

Ok, I thought that there might be the general overview of the result in all categories. Since I wonder what crest earned more support. I wanted it it be the Learned.

schrecklich said:

I wonder if it will be up this month. I dont know how Rougue was able to get the complete spoiler list so fast but FFG has this CP in the upcoming section listed as "At the Printer" which usually takes a long time before it is in stores.

Rozy said:

I haven't checked but I was guessing that Rogue might have taken them from the Spanish board because it seems like the Spanish printings come out a week or two before the English ones.

Also, based on the cards in Defenders of the North, it seems like the Noble crest won the vote (every house except Stark got a card that helps Nobles).

he might have gotten them from the cut sheets (prizes for regionals) and they might not be out anywhere and we will have to wait for anyone to see them.....

Over the weekend, I built 3 new decks and updated several more. At least 11 of the cards from this chapter pack made it in one deck or another, several cards made it in several decks.

I can't remember a chapter pack quite like this. Not only does it have a large quantity of highly playable cards, it has 2-3 cards that drastically effect the metagame.