Hello and Welcome Back, Loyal A Game of Thrones Fans!

Of Snakes and Sand should be available soon, so this will be the last preview for it before we start in on our previews of the final Chapter Pack of the Brotherhood Without Banners cycle of expansions, The Dreadfort Betrayal. Before we get into the card spoiler, though, we would like to offer our congratulations once again to Erick A. Butzlaff for winning the New York Meta's annual Black Friday tournament. For more info on this cool annual event, be sure to check out the New York Meta's website.

As we're winding up the tournament season, we'd also like to give one more shout out to the winners of the Castle Stahleck A Game of Thrones tournaments, Joust Champion Andrea "Gualdo" Gualdoni of Italy and Melee Champion Jakub "Swirek" Swierczek of Poland. If you ever get the chance to get out to Europe, make it a point to participate in the Castle Stahleck events - a truly international tournament for LCG players. For more info on Castle Stahleck, check out the website.

Congratulations to all tournament winners, and top props to all tournament participants! Stay tuned for highlights from the China championships, coming soon.

As an added bonus and for some insight into how the top competitors construct their decks, check out the decklists from the Days of Ice and Fire Joust and reports from the Castle Stahleck events on the A Game of Thrones Support Page.

Moving on to the card of the week, we present for this House Martell Chapter pack an example of a quintessential House Martell plot card, Bungled Orders.

If you've been following the Brotherhood Without Banners, you may have noticed that in addition to the characters, attachments, locations, and so on that highlight a particular House, each Chapter Pack also includes a plot card that works well with that House but is not necessarily "House X Only". For example, Many Powers Long Asleep is really tops for bringing Melisandre back from the grave, but there are other holy-crested characters in other Houses for whom this plot could be put to use.

Such is the case of Bungled Orders. There are many times in which revealing a new plot card mid-round can be very useful. In some cases, you do this to speed through your plot deck faster, in others, to change the game's state.* In the case of Bungled Orders, this plot could be used offensively - winning a challenge and then forcing your opponent to reveal a plot card that perhaps they did not want to get to yet, such as late in the order when they would have to reveal something damaging like Valar Morghulis or similar. This could be risky, however, if the new plot revealed makes things worse for you. For House Martell, this plot card could set off an avalanche of effects that opponents might hesitate to trigger. For one thing, House Martell's vengeful nature means that losing the challenge necessary to trigger this plot card's effect is no great loss. Moreover, if a House Martell player is running this plot card, you know that they've got some doozy of a follow-up just waiting to drop on you after they lose whatever challenge gets thrown at them. With House Martell, there's always the looming threat that winning a challenge against them might be worse than losing one to them and it sometimes makes even hardened veterans back down.

So that's it for this week's card spoiler. We hope you have plenty to discuss here in the comments or on the A Game of Thrones forums. Until next time!

* Such as opening a round with Fear of Winter to limit your opponent's marshaling and then during the challenges phase switch to some other, less limiting plot for yourself.