Hello!

Over the Missouri regionals weekend, I noticed some different house cards from the CCG sets. Some of these appear to be much nicer than the LCG ones. This brings me to my first question:

Excluding stone/crystal house cards, what set had your favorite house card style?

Personally, I saw a few people using full black house cards, with only the house symbol on it. (Does anyone know what set these are from? I want them very desperately.)

My second question is: Which specialty house cards did you like the most? Crystal or Stone?

Now that they have playmats established, I think bringing back the stone/crystal house cards would be amazing for prize support. You don't see many of them in circulation anymore. Which brings me to my final question.

What kind of prize support do you want to see in the game? Sleeves, deck boxes, custom playmats, house cards, etc?

Yeah I'm positive that those are the Iron Throne house cards.

Also I would LOVE to see the stone house cards come back. Those were easily my favorite, and I never really liked the crystal house cards.

I think it would be cool if we could get sleeves with the house crest on them too. That would be badass! Especially if they did houses like tyrell, tully, and arryn. Or even the Stannis/Asshai crest! I however am guessing that they will only release a few with characters on them. I doubt they'd be able to sell enough to justify making them.

It'd also be cool to get some tabbards like at the ice and fire gencon!

Looks like Staton answered your first question.

As for the second, I think the stone looks better, but liked both.

I like all your ideas for prize support. In addition to that, maybe house pins, custom art (paintings and such suitable for framing), and custom power counters for each house.

Personally, I like the crystal House cards more. I appreciate the more "modern" and "sleeker" look.

Actually, the black ones with just the House icon on them and no turn order were from 5Kings and were my least favorite. Serious, check out the house cards from the various premium starters. That is my all time favorite for any of the cardboard house card forms. Aside from that, the first stone house cards are great, as are the crystal ones in a close second place. Hmm.... or maybe my Melee Final Table card....

I'd love to see more specialty house cards and custom sleeves. Sleeves with the actual house crests on the back would be absolutely amazing.

Kennon is right - the black cards with teh House logo were 5K. my afvorites were teh deep color ones from ITE. I still use these a lot - but I'll always have a soft spot for teh Ice and Fire versiosn as well - i loved the ones from the House starter boxes. I usally lay these under the cyrstal card for better effect.

Husemann - you really shouldn';t have much trouble tracking down the 5K house cards. There were tons of them printed, and it was only a couple of years ago.

ok you guys made me go look at my old cards...

the house card in question has no set symbol on it so are no real help....however i'm 99.9999% sure they are Iron throne.

The dual weapons crossed behind the house shield w/ text on the banner are 5 kings for sure...they even have the set logo on them, it is printed faintly in the bottom right corner just above the copyright line.

Lars is correct. The black house cards are ITE (100% sure). I started buying when ITE came out.

5KE has the weapons.

ITE doesn't have the rounds breakdown, 5KE does. The ITE were my favorite, usaully followed by the ones in the Premium Starters, which had more fancy filigree on them.

I would love sleeves with the House shields on them. Any house. That would be awesome, perhaps even more so than the playmats (finally, after all these years, I have a GoT playmat). I have to say I like the crystal house cards better because I have 4 of them (no Bara or Lanni, sadly), but truthfull I love the stone cards but they were just before my time. I still envy my brother's granite Stark card (at least, it looks like granite).

Hahaha, ok, you guys win on which set they were from. Sadly, it doesn't change the fact that they looked worst.

Seriously, I say again that the Premium Starters are the way to go.

are there any images of the old stone and crystal house cards online?

i did some poking around google, and couldn't find any...

Thanks to all the people who chimed in on what set those are from! Now I can go fail at GenCon in style.

I personally would love sleeves with the house symbols on them. Be them just straight black, or house colored.

And the same for playmats! Though currently the regionals overall winner playmat is my favorite because it shows all the house symbols, I think house themed playmats would be awesome too. Really getting a diversity of prize support would be great for everyone being able to show their pride for their favorite house.

I usually still try to use the very first one. They are nice and basic, and don't have that silly taxation phase

That being said...I have a I&F one signed by George RR Martin (Lanni), so that gets used a lot!

My favorite house cards are the acrylic ones.

dormouse said:

I can't say I've seen those. Other than the GenCon top table ones anyway.

Right now there are only Greyjoy and Martell available I believe.

Ooooh. Those ones.

I would probably like them a little more if I wasn't forced into have 3 of the Greyjoy one. lol

I hope the Stark one is forthcoming, now that the premium expansion for them is out. I have the Martell and Greyjoy ones from the premium expansions and like them both.

The Stark one will probably be pretty awesome. I'm looking forward to seeing a whole set.