"One flute will serve only to unstop your ears and dissolve the caul from off your eyes, so that you may hear and see the truths that will be laid before you."
- A Song of Ice and Fire, Volume II: A Clash of Kings

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The Wine of Warlocks

Moving on from The Chosen Few, we present this week's card spoiler, again from the upcoming deluxe expansion Queen of Dragons. We chose this week's card because of the ongoing discussions on the subject of creating a House Targaryen draw engine. The main question is whether Queen of Dragons will add more draw capability to the Targaryen arsenal. We offer Shade of the Evening as an example of some new draw possibilities for House Targaryen.

We are cheating a little here: Shade of the Evening is not technically a draw card, it is a search card. In effect, it falls somewhere between a draw card and a search card, in that the net result is that it adds a card to your hand, but you don't have to reveal it. Because it is not a draw card, it is not affected by card effects that reference drawing cards, such as Kings of the Storm's Stannis Baratheon or Kings Landing's The Iron Throne. Of course, Shade of the Evening requires you to win a challenge in order to trigger its response, but that is a small price to pay given the boost of both adding a card to your hand and getting some information about what is in store for you the next time you draw (or what you stand to lose in a Greyjoy milling attack). Other than that, Shade of the Evening fits in nicely alongside other House Targaryen strategies - it is stronger in Summer and it is an attachment (Xaro's Home, Lady Daenerys's Chambers, etc.) - so it is bound to get plenty of play in the months ahead.

Under Siege

Another card that will add to House Targaryen's draw capabilities is Meereen. Meereen again works double duty as a card that plays alongside a developing strategy - Dragon synergy - as well as adding to draw. The main thrust of this card is actually giving one of your Dragons immunity to opponents' triggered effects. The fact that winning the challenge - again, a small price to pay - lets you draw a card for each participating Dragon is an especially enticing bonus. With the Queen of Dragons Daenerys in play, there is not much of a downside to throwing all of your Dragons into a challenge (assuming you are attacking) in order to draw more cards through Meereen. A good Dragon deck has a lot of moving parts that need to come together in order to really work, but if you can get them in line, it can be a formidable enemy.

So that's it for this week's card spoilers. Hopefully we've given you plenty to discuss here and on the A Game of Thrones forums. Be sure to come back next week when we announce the Chosen Few: the decks chosen to participate in our staff Proxy tournament!