if the power on card with infamy does not count to your victory total what function dies infamy serve?

It most certainly does count toward your victory total, just as power gained from renown does.

The purpose is that opponents can't steal power from your characters (except if a card specifically says so) on power challenges.

Infamy power Definately counts towards your victory total. Along with protecting it from being stolen through power challanges (something the Lannisters are bad at) there are also several cards that have both Infamy and abilities which key off when they have power on them like Daven Lannister.

Maybe once the Lanni box hits the shelves we'll have infamous locations and attachments to contend with (infamy keyword means power on infamous cards count toward victory total regardless of card type). I just hope they ain't straight reprints from the CCG days.

Ruvion said:

Castamere! (No way they'll reprint it as it was, though)

I think the main purpose of infamy is to justify not giving any Lannister character renown and replace it with something much less useful.

Jamie is the most obvious example, but I'm sure there are others.

So the Lannister box is officially next? i mean i understand because they are the last of the 4 from the core set but i was hoping for a Greyjoy expansion first i feel like they need it the most. Granted Lannister needs something to make them not so horrible at Melee but even still i feel like Greyjoy would benefit from an expansion much more.

We have a box now for every house except the Lannisters, so their box is probably next.

But, as they already predicted on the French forum, of course the entire Lannister box will be put on the Restricted List as soon as it is released .

I never got to play with infamy before my meta fell apart. Was it ever any good? I always thought the power would be a lot less safe on characters and locations then they would be on the house given mass resets and targeted kill and location destruction.

I have to say, Castamere was one of my favorite Lannister cards in CCG days. It was unique, costed 0, had Infamy and Gold + X, were X was the amount of power on it. House Lannister could become very, very rich and also had quite a save store for its power, as you could use the duplicates to save it. It was one of the most Lannister-like cards ever printed. Very effective also.

I've heard that the rumor (and by rumor, I mean the product is listed as available soon on the FFG shop) is the Greyjoy reprint will be along within the month, but won't "count" as a house box because it's just a reprint. But Lannister should be next by my count.

Mighty Jim said:

Is Lanni having a tough time winning? The last thing I would want to see is a Lanni deck that could claim power half as quickly as a Bara deck. On the other hand, it would be great if Lanni had some sort of melee strategy...it's pretty terrible.

I've long thought that Lannister should be the anti-power house and have ways to slow the gain of other houses rather than helping accelerate themselves.

Twn2dn said:

Twn2dn said:

Lanny Clansman isn't that bad at melee- it isn't Bara rush, but it can be pretty potent, especially because you'll be running some (limited) kneel at the same time. Claim 3/4 challenges do a lot to entrench your board position and help you win.

Also, Targ now has a lot of Renown - 10 cards (including Rhaegal though he is very conditional), more than anyone except Baratheon. Granted, Stark and Martell have much more playable Renown (even though Stark doesn't actually have that much renown itself), because a lot of Targ's Renown is stuck on very high cost characters (Balerion, Free Cities Mercenaries and the New Targ Army), but Targ got a whole lot faster/nastier/renownier in the box.

I ran Lanni Clansmen in a melee last night. Last place. I feel it is a much stronger joust deck, as I have hit claim 5 turns with consistency and claim 7 turns twice.

Twn2dn said:

QFT